Knife Use When Cutting Sandwiches

[Anna N]

May need a bit of a kitchen reno.....

[paulraphael]

This is the knife you need:

 

 

The correct technique is to face away from the cutting board, throw the sandwich in an arc over your shoulder, then spin and bisect the sandwich in midair before it lands on the plate. 

 

The whole point of mustard or mayo is to hold the sandwich together in the air (the Japanese word for mayo translates literally to "warrior glue"). 

 

 

 

 

[photo by Rich Legg, http://leggnet.com/2013/12/hands-of-a-maguro-bocho-master.html]

Edited March 10, 2017 by paulraphael (log)

[cakewalk]

20 minutes ago, paulraphael said:

The correct technique is to face away from the cutting board, throw the sandwich in an arc over your shoulder, then spin and bisect the sandwich in midair before it lands on the plate. 

 

I think that was an old John Belushi trick.

[IndyRob]

On 3/7/2017 at 10:41 AM, cutter said:

With grilled cheese sliding around until i seen not suppose to saw the sandwich but chop straight down....

 

Oddly enough, I recently had to develop a unique cutting style for my grilled cheese sandwiches.  I've been using Texas toast bread (i.e. thick white bread slices) and three slices of American cheese.  So I've got a tall grilled sandwich with oozey, slidey, cheese in the middle.  I needed to cut it without smashing the height, or pressing the cheese out.

 

What I came up with was to use a simple table knife (the one that portioned the pats of butter for me), held vertically and repeatedly gently stabbed from top to bottom to create a perforated line across the sandwich. Do this once or twice to create a path that can be finished off with a normal slicing action.