[neilep (OP)]

Dearest Sandwichologists,


As a sheepy I of course luff sandwiches. Nothing completes my day without it being filled with the consumption of a bread filled snacky snack



Non doctored  true-to-scale (1-1) bona-fide image of my sandwich just moments ago.

What I would like to know is why does cutting something in half become so much easier when ewe make a sandwich of it  ?  doesn't matter what it is....once it's between the duvet joy of two slices it's easy to cut !


Why's that then ?


If ewe could hurry up and provide a solution as I'm about to say " no bid" in my bridge game !....and I need to provide a topic of conversation during tea break !!


thank ewe






hugs and shmishes


mwah mwah mwah




neil
xxxxx

[Halc]

Well for one, the only people I've known to cut the cheese do so between two buns.

That out of the way, it's probably because the hoagie roll provides a nice dry handle of sorts, providing a nice reaction force to what the knife is doing. Sans roll, you'd have to get the slimy parts all over the trotters, far more difficult to hang on.

[alancalverd]

The top slice stops all the loose bits from flying about when the knife tears them. It's a craftsman's trick to sandwich fragile materials  between sheets of scrap plywood when cutting complex shapes.

Late in life I have discovered that a simple vertical press with a Chinese chef's chopper cuts sandwiches much cleaner than sawing with a bread knife.

[vhfpmr]

If I have a stack of sandwiches to cut, I do them one at a time, cutting them all in one just squashes them. I cut by rolling the curvature of the blade, drawing the blade across them just tears.

[Zer0]

It's Nice to know You are still Alive n Kickin...

Especially after that Ancient Cakey Experiment!

P.S. - Remain a Sheep, no need to act like a Lab Rat.
🐑
(baa baa)

[paul cotter]

I assume that the meat content of that sandwich is thinly sliced mutton?

[evan_au]

What a great inventor, from a distinguished line!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Sandwich

[alancalverd]

Non doctored  true-to-scale (1-1) bona-fide image of my sandwich just moments ago.

Intriguing.

A publisher's photographer of my acquaintance reckoned to spend half a day to photograph a sandwich lunch to the satisfaction of the editors, and by the time  they had added glosses, moisturisers, citric acid or sodium bicarbonate in all the right places, it was inedible.

They should have employed a sheep.

[Colin2B]

I assume that the meat content of that sandwich is thinly sliced mutton?

Mmmmm, I just love a lamb sandwich.
Er, thinly sliced ?

[neilep (OP)]

Well for one, the only people I've known to cut the cheese do so between two buns.

That out of the way, it's probably because the hoagie roll provides a nice dry handle of sorts, providing a nice reaction force to what the knife is doing. Sans roll, you'd have to get the slimy parts all over the trotters, far more difficult to hang on.

Thank you Halc.  I think there's a niche in the market here for a new invention !

[neilep (OP)]

The top slice stops all the loose bits from flying about when the knife tears them. It's a craftsman's trick to sandwich fragile materials  between sheets of scrap plywood when cutting complex shapes.

Late in life I have discovered that a simple vertical press with a Chinese chef's chopper cuts sandwiches much cleaner than sawing with a bread knife.

Thank you Alan. lol.."chinese chef's chopper" lol...smirk  guffaw !!

[neilep (OP)]

If I have a stack of sandwiches to cut, I do them one at a time, cutting them all in one just squashes them. I cut by rolling the curvature of the blade, drawing the blade across them just tears.

yes, yes, this is what I do. I do not use a bread knife for this. Thank you vhfpmr

[neilep (OP)]

It's Nice to know You are still Alive n Kickin...

Especially after that Ancient Cakey Experiment!

P.S. - Remain a Sheep, no need to act like a Lab Rat.
🐑
(baa baa)

Thank you Zer0 for the kind comment. Yup, that cake-of-antiquity experiment was a scuccess...in that......I still have a "bleating" heart !! lol

[neilep (OP)]

I assume that the meat content of that sandwich is thinly sliced mutton?

Completely Vegan !!

[neilep (OP)]

Non doctored  true-to-scale (1-1) bona-fide image of my sandwich just moments ago.

Intriguing.

A publisher's photographer of my acquaintance reckoned to spend half a day to photograph a sandwich lunch to the satisfaction of the editors, and by the time  they had added glosses, moisturisers, citric acid or sodium bicarbonate in all the right places, it was inedible.

They should have employed a sheep.

Alan, I have been ostracised by the food-photogrpahy industry as my techniques are too competitive !

[neilep (OP)]

I assume that the meat content of that sandwich is thinly sliced mutton?

Mmmmm, I just love a lamb sandwich.
Er, thinly sliced ?

Colin...nooooooooooo !!