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Dinner · 15 min · 1 sandwich

BLT

Bacon first so the fat seasons the bread. Tomato salted. Eat immediately or the lettuce weeps.

The sheet · 1 sandwich · 15 min

easy

Why tonight. Bacon first so the fat seasons the bread. Tomato salted. Eat immediately or the lettuce weeps.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • bacon
  • bread
  • lettuce
  • tomato
  • mayo

Method

  1. Bacon in a cold pan, brought up slowly. Rendered fat and crisp edges, not scorched outside and raw inside.
  2. Toast the bread in some of that fat. This is the step people skip and it is most of the sandwich.
  3. Mayonnaise on both slices, edge to edge. It is waterproofing as much as flavor — it keeps the tomato from soaking the bread.
  4. Salt the tomato slices on their own before they go in. Unsalted tomato tastes like water in a sandwich this salty.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

bacon
Fat, salt and smoke, and the rendered fat is the more valuable half.
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
lettuce
Structure and water, and it is worth being fussy about.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
mayo
An emulsion, which means it is a delivery system for fat and acid at once.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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