Dinner · 15 min · Amounts not specified
BLT with avocado
Crisp bacon, ripe tomato, or skip it.
The sheet · 1 sandwich · 15 min
easyWhy tonight. Crisp bacon, ripe tomato, or skip it.
What it needs
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- bread
- bacon
- lettuce
- tomato
- avocado
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mayo.
Method
- Bacon from a cold pan so the fat renders, then the bread toasted in that fat.
- Mayonnaise both slices edge to edge. With avocado already in there it can be a thin layer, but it has to be there as waterproofing.
- Avocado sliced rather than mashed, and salted on the board. Mashed, it merges with the mayonnaise into one soft layer.
- Salt the tomato separately too. Two salted components and crisp bacon is what keeps this from being soft all the way through.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
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The technique underneath this
- Yolk emulsions — mayonnaise and hollandaiseSuspending a great deal of fat in very little water, held there by the lecithin in an egg yolk.broke on the way up · broke on standing · scrambled · too thick to move
- Bread doughDeveloping gluten and letting fermentation do the flavor, which is mostly a matter of time rather than effort.dense · flat · gummy inside · tore during shaping · over-proofed
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- Bread and doughSourdough Bread | Basics with Babish (feat. Joshua Weissman)Binging with BabishMixing, proofing and shaping worked through slowly enough to follow the first time.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughNO KNEAD Tartine Sourdough BreadBrian LagerstromA Tartine-style loaf from mixing to bake, with the timings a home oven actually needs.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughHow to knead bread doughKing Arthur Baking CompanyHand kneading, and how to tell when the gluten is developed rather than guessing at minutes.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- bread
- Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
- bacon
- Fat, salt and smoke, and the rendered fat is the more valuable half.
- 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.
- avocado
- Fat with no cooking required — it does what butter or cream would do in a dish that has neither.
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