Sandwich Masterclass: 2 Cooks on Bread, Spread and What Makes a Great Grilled Cheese

🎙️ EP52 — Berlin, get ready for this sandwich celebration live from PodFest Festival!

🎧 In This Episode:

🥪 What actually counts as a sandwich?

🇪🇸 The Spanish tortilla — the OG bocadillo

🍔 The first burger was a patty melt

👑 The Earl of Sandwich and the smug naming story

🍞 Soft bread beats artisanal sourdough

🧈 Brioche — butter added in stages, like a mayonnaise

🇯🇵 Hokkaido milk bread and the Tangzhong trick

🥖 Over-proof your baguette dough for a sandwich loaf

🫒 Butter belongs on toast, never olive oil

🥚 Mayo is alioli with the garlic taken out

🌭 German mustard country — fermented, fruited, underrated

🥬 The BLT philosophy: don't over-vegetable a sandwich

🍆 Escalivada with anchovies on toast

🥒 Brine your own pickles — dill, coriander, the lot

🟣 Beetroot pickle with horseradish and crème fraîche

🍅 Year-fermented green tomatoes

🫘 Hummus, tahini, pesto — a dry sandwich is sad

🥜 PB&J and homemade Nutella with sea salt

😈 The Nutella-and-chistorra sacrilege

🔥 Spanish bocadillos — planchado and pressed crispy

🧀 Sandwich cheese — sliced and humble, never stinky

🇯🇵 Katsu sando and the traditional bulldog sauce

🌮 Mexican tortas and the chaos of tortas ahogadas

🥩 The Chicago Italian beef dip

🥙 The Berlin Döner test — heat the bread with the meat fat

🍅 Pan con tomate — cut horizontal, scrape the garlic

🐖 Jamón Ibérico, good oil, good bread — the last supper sandwich

🍯 Sobrasada with honey, and the ensaimada controversy

🦑 The cheap calamari bocadillo with aioli

🇧🇴 The Bolivian chola — two sisters, ten years, one sandwich beef

🇩🇰 Smørrebrød, Danish rye, and the Nordic revival

🍣 Pressed mackerel sushi — the sandwich that came first?

🥐 Press a stale croissant flat on the plancha

☝️ The croissant toaster-top hack

🔧 The panini grill is criminally underrated

🍔 Toast your burger buns like McDonald's

🇬🇧 Dusty Knuckle Bakery, London

🇮🇹 All'Antico Vinaio, Florence — maybe the best sandwich on earth

🥪 Bourdain's fried mortadella: bun, mustard, mayo

♨️ The grilled cheese masterclass

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