Lesson 4: Preparing Sandwiches

• Types of Sandwiches:

  • Cold sandwich:
  • Regular cold sandwich: buttered or unbuttered bread
  • Multi-decker: multi-layered with fillings in between. (club sandwich)
  • Cold sandwich: two slices of bread with a spread applied and filled with cold filling like deli meat or egg
  • Pinwheel: fancy cut sandwiches served as appetizers.
• Wrap sandwiches: fillings are wrapped, similar to a Mexican burrito
• Tools and utensils for preparing sandwiches:

  • Bread toaster: toasts multiple types of bread products
  • Sandwich spatula: round bladed utensil that is used to apply food spreads, over bread slices.
  • Butter knife: a small knife that is used to apply spreads over bread slices
  • Deli knife: for thick sandwiches, cuts easily through a variety of sandwich ingredients
  • Lettuce knife: plastic serrated edge knife, designed to slice lettuce without causing edges to turn brown
• Preparing sandwiches is a fundamental skill in modern food service
• Tea sandwich are small fancy cut sandwiches made from light delicate ingredients and bread that has been trimmed of crust and sliced thinly.
• Tray is used to hold food in place
• Strainer is used to separate liquid from solid.
• Can opener is used to open cans
• Oven is an equipment that is enclosed in which food is heated by hot air or infrared radiation.
• Hot sandwich: hot fillings, usually meat but sometimes fish, between two slices of bread.

  Grilled sandwich: the sides are spread with butter causing a brown line because of a special griller.

  Fried sandwich: a piece of bread soaked in egg and milk and then friend in a non-stick pan
• Open-faced sandwich: a slice of bread with desired kind of hot fillings