Sandwiches: best served chilled or at room temperature?

[Derian]

These sandwiches HAVE to be chilled

 

[Derian]

My toasted sarnies are always perfect. No grease, no ooze and no rock hard bits.

I can teach those who cannot make toasties properly, but the master's knowledge doesn't come cheap. Oh no.

It's a craft. Definitely. I use a hammer and chisel to sort out the edges in a most decorative way. You can have that top tip for free

 

[Badgers]

I prefer cheese at room temp as they get nice and sweaty

Mayonnaise is best chilled though

 

[Hollis]

So its a hot sunny day, you're having a prawn mayonnaise sandwich with lettuce.. you're going to want it cold arent you.

 

[magneze]

Lettuce in a prawn mayonnaise sandwich?

 

[Hollis]

okay - lets forget about the lettuce.

 

[EastEnder]

Riddle me this: If chilling sandwiches is wrong, why do places like M&S keep their "so poncy you need a remortgage to afford" sarnies in the chilled section all day long??? hmmm????

 

[marty21]

Interestin' stuff.

So my recent practice of putting my lunchtime sandwich in the fridge half an hour before I eat it to 'chill' is plainly wrong.

I suppose its the association between refridgerated food and 'fresh food'.

i seem to be in an oppressed minority here, i'm happy to eat sandwiches which have been slightly chilled, although I echo the thoughts of other posters that toasted sandwiches should be warm....

 

[magneze]

Riddle me this: If chilling sandwiches is wrong, why do places like M&S keep their "so poncy you need a remortgage to afford" sarnies in the chilled section all day long??? hmmm????

Because by the time you've queued they're room temperature.

 

[mpython]

Riddle me this: If chilling sandwiches is wrong, why do places like M&S keep their "so poncy you need a remortgage to afford" sarnies in the chilled section all day long??? hmmm????

Because they're really 3 weeks old and irradiated! That'll be £46.50 please sir..

 

[Hollis]

Riddle me this: If chilling sandwiches is wrong, why do places like M&S keep their "so poncy you need a remortgage to afford" sarnies in the chilled section all day long??? hmmm????

Indeed they're saying, Tesco, Morrison's, Sainsburys and Asda have all got it wrong!!!!

 

[magneze]

How chilled is "chilled" in this example?

Is it:

or

 

[trashpony]

Riddle me this: If chilling sandwiches is wrong, why do places like M&S keep their "so poncy you need a remortgage to afford" sarnies in the chilled section all day long??? hmmm????

You allow the sandwich to reach room temperature before eating of course. Unless you're a greedy bastard who can't wait half an hour.

*looks round suspiciously*

 

[sleaterkinney]

I reckon all the people who voted for "very much dependent on the nature of the sandwich filler" are just fence-sitting smart-arses.

 

[mpython]

Indeed they're saying, Tesco, Morrison's, Sainsburys and Asda have all got it wrong!!!!

Obviously, they all try to keep the Ecoli bugs from multiplying...nothing to do with taste. Don't ever make the mistake of preparing sarnies in advance and then freezing them. Once defrosted they have the consistency of fresh puke!

 

[Hollis]

I reckon all the people who voted for "very much dependent on the nature of the sandwich filler" are just fence-sitting smart-arses.

I kinda agree - these are the liberal filth who talk about "consensus".

 

[Hollis]

Yes They Have..

Indeed they're saying, Tesco, Morrison's, Sainsburys and Asda have all got it wrong!!!!

The supermarkets are playing games with us!!

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=530

Smash teh corporations!

 

[sleaterkinney]

I kinda agree - these are the liberal filth who talk about "consensus".

So called "liberals", I bet they had to ask the butler what a sandwich was.

 

[magneze]

In many ways the pre-packed sandwich is the front line of the capitalist pig-dogs.

 

[EastEnder]

You allow the sandwich to reach room temperature before eating of course. Unless you're a greedy bastard who can't wait half an hour.

ahhhh, I see.

I'm not familiar with the correct procedure for handling M&S sarnies - I've never been rich enough to afford them.

Although I do love the irony that people think paying a fiver for some poncy sarnie means they're getting real "quality"...... The damn things are still made in a grotty factory by people being paid 50p an hour, most of whom are most likely so resentful at spending all day slapping bits of "finest" imported salami on sarnies they could never afford that they no doubt contribute their own personal "fillings" as a matter of course....

 

[mpython]

In many ways the pre-packed sandwich is the front line of the capitalist pig-dogs.

I have an image of a selection of M&S sandwiches first up against the wall...

 

[trashpony]

ahhhh, I see.

I'm not familiar with the correct procedure for handling M&S sarnies - I've never been rich enough to afford them.

I don't buy sandwiches from M&S. I have a subsidised staff canteen with £2.70 to spend every day.

They make their sandwiches fresh. And they aren't chilled

 

[magneze]

I have an image of a selection of M&S sandwiches first up against the wall...

Soften them up first by turning off the fridges ...

 

[Hollis]

You see the supermarkets even get you to want your sandwiches chilled.

Noam Chomsky was right! nino servette where are you!!

 

[marty21]

i feel i'm a victim of a vicious supermarket conspiracy to force me to eat chilled sandwiches

this is the real downside of the supermarket wars, it's all very well getting your two for one offers

there are real people in real pain over this

 

[Hollis]

Venezuela - We will not forget you!

 

[longdog]

Bread, cheese and meats should be at room temperature but the salad ingredients should be chilled.

 

[northernhord]

Eating an actual sandwich served chilled from the fridge is very wrong indeed, like wine a good butty needs a little airing otherwise you end up eating something like those chilled supermarket butties that all taste like babyfood and Mayo.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Room temperature. No two ways about it.

I know they have to STORE the bloody things chilled, but it's a real hassle doing the grab-a-quick-sarnie-for-lunch thing and then either having to wait a bloody hour for it, or ending up with frostbitten teeth eating something that might as well be kitchen sponge for all the flavour it appears to have.

Tesco's "Finest" goat's cheese and roasted veggies sandwich is a particularly egregious example of this phenomenon.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Riddle me this: If chilling sandwiches is wrong, why do places like M&S keep their "so poncy you need a remortgage to afford" sarnies in the chilled section all day long??? hmmm????

Bacteria, innit?