/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I'm assuming it's because you have no culinary skill so you make it shitty.

>>13169097
how can you fuck up making a sandwich
Go to a Subway and watch them make you autistic fuck
and don't forget to fucking takes notes you fucking yuppie

>>13169097
because prepacked lunch meat and cheapo bread make for a gross sammich

>>13169097
maybe let the ingredients warm up a bit first when you make it at home. sometimes meat and cheese like that won't taste as good right out of the refrigerator because it's too cold which dulls the taste.

>>13169097
mate they've got scientists chefs and dedicated suppliers to formulate their food to taste good enough for you to not wanna make your own sandwiches
that's the point of restaurants

>>13169168
you think companies supplying grocery stores don't do the same thing?

>>13169170
what exactly is it you're asking? your choices at grocery stores are boar's head and oscar mayer.
chain restaurants have their own meat and bread and cheese. it might not be better, but it's different.

>>13169097
1. freshly baked bread, don't buy it from the stores but the bakery instead and aim to get it when it is straight out of the oven
or you could make your own bread
2. are you buying GOOD, EXPENSIVE and HIGH QUALITY cold cuts?
3. and most importantly what kind of sauce are you using, homemade or from the store? because with subway for example 90% of the flavor will be from the bread and the sauce

>>13169097
You have to buy the expensive meats, not the bottom shelf ones. Buy proper bread. And don't skimp on the meat quantity.

>>13169097
FUCKING ITALIAN DRESSING AND VEGETABLES YOU BASEMENT NERD.

>>13169176
companies supplying grocery stores have teams of people trying to make their stuff taste as good as it can too, within budgets of course.

> your choices at grocery stores are boar's head and oscar mayer.
even walmart has way more choices than that

>>13169185
for higher quality deli meat boar's head is usually your only option
obviously there's more brands of cheap lunch meat than just oscar mayer but they're all around the same tier unless you intentionally go for the lowest of the low 79¢ bologna

Drench it in sauces/dressings

you have to ask for real capicoo and buy actual fugatz bread

>>13169097
Someone posted one time it's because you're smelling all the food as you're making it. Someone else making your food makes it tastes better. So try this trick: make the food, step away from the kitchen for like 10 mins, now come back to the food. Let us know how it tastes now.
t. Loves luke warm food

Might be too cold

>>13169099
fpbp

I make my own all of the time and they are as good if not better than anything I have gotten from a sandwich shop

wrap your sandwich in foil and bake it in the oven until its hot. makes a lot of difference.

>>13169097
It's the load of mayo, oil and vinegar, fresh bread, etc. They're using and you're not

>>13169097
Too many purines for me.

>>13169097
Op not only gay but
>literally fucks up a sandwich
How?

>>13169097
Good bread will make a huge difference

>>13169097
need a splash of vinegar, or a pickle, or like kimchi or something

>>13169097
oil and vinegar bro

>>13169097
There's this thing that if someone else makes your sandwich it will taste better.

I used to work at a sandwich shop. By the end everything tasted the fucking same. I went back there to visit and they made me a sandwich, was the best fucking sandwich I had in a long time. Thing was, I used to make it all the time for myself, it never tasted that good.

Its almost certainly a lack of oil and bread quality

>>13171106
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2013/07/03/why-do-sandwiches-taste-better-when-someone-else-makes-them/#40a8565f5521

>>13169176
9/10 grocery stores have delis with several kinds of each meat and cheese to choose from that cost the same as the stuff you get from the lunch meat section. I think OP just needs to get himself some better bread/condiments.

>>13169167
This is true. When I'm smart enough to plan ahead I leave basically everything out for an hour or two at room temp before assembling. Makes a huge difference.

>>13169097
Season the meat. Season the tomatoes. Use good sub rolls.

>>13171612
>Season the meat

Cold cuts are already pretty damn salty. Don't think that would be necessary, y'know?

>>13169176

>>13169097
Buy a panini maker, spread some butter and toast that bitch. That and italian dressing along with the already recommended GOOD meats and bread.

And spices.

>>13171621
Depends on the cold cut. But even then the salt has a different hit on the palate. Some surface salt wakens up the tastebuds for the rest of the sandwich in a way that the internal salt doesn't.

>>13171612
>season the cold cuts

>>13169097
Try cuts like pastrami, corned beef and smoked ham. Most grocer cold cuts are bland indeed.

I'm going to tell you the secret anon. Oregano

>>13171823
Meat is meat. All meat needs seasoning to reach its full flavor potential.
A light dusting of table salt and finely ground pepper is enough.

>>13169097
I'm pretty sure it's the sauce / spread.
I take sandwiches to work every day (not very cold by lunch), and have been experimenting every week and have not been able to do better than sandwich shops even with much better ingredients.

A part of that is the limitations of buying for the week and prepping in the morning. Rolls are better than sliced bread, but only last a couple of days. Also toppings that add moisture (tomato, cucumber, pickled anything) end up making your sandwich soggy.

But mostly it's the sauce. Mayonnaise type sauces are bland. I don't like mustard. Sweeter stuff works well (ketchup, hot sauce, honey mixes) but I find it to be a bit much. Chutneys and relishes haven't been too bad. Vinegar/lemon juice added to the salad (or for that matter any dressing) adds too much moisture but sort of works. Perhaps there's some sweet / acidic / something amalgamation to be had, but I haven't managed to find it.
Subway has a nice sweet onion sauce, I wonder how they do it. It tastes much cheaper that any onion relish I have tried, yet works so much better.

After I give up on sauces I'll try for cold marinated chicken, which should have some flavour kick without the moisture. Not sure how I feel about cold chicken though.

>>13172290
Literally eating a seasoned cold cut sandwich right now. Salt is definitely too much. The pepper isn't great either, but then again the pepper itself isn't fresh.

>>13172290
You salt your bacon and sausages too? Something aint' right with you, buddy.

>>13169097
HFCS

>>13169097
Your mom really should have pulled out, OP. Christ you're an idiot.

>>13172496
Interesting. I've told a lot of people the same thing and they've all said it worked great. What cuts where you using?

you don't get the bread they get.

>>13169097
>Meats and cheese (SLICED THIN) should be just under room temp
>real Italian semolina bread, no packaged hoagie or french bread shit; >also never toast, toasted bread is for fucking women
>shredded lettuce not giant leaves
>tomatoes on vine, pref heirloom, white onions, mushrooms, pepperoncini and shit
>olive oil generously, red vinegar
>salt, cracked pepper
>just stuff the shit out of that thing, have fun

try to find a real deli nearby or order online. capicola, sopressata, mortadella, prosciutto etc.; dont try to make something "tasty" with Oscar Mayer horsehit

>>13170850
this. people who add and fuck around with sauces in a cold cut sandwich should be executed. why bother eating a sandwich at that point, just suck down some fucking corn chowder

>>13169097
you have to hollow out your hoagie

>>13172733
>heating up food is for women

stop over compensating you coping sissy

because you're using prepackaged sliced cold cuts. freshly sliced high quality ones are so much better and that's what you're getting at even the most ghetto italian delis.

>>13172657
It was roast ham today.
Pepper is probably a fine idea, but cured meats are salty as fuck and they don't need any more.

>>13172737
what are you talking about? oil and vinegar = salad dressing. So does mayonnaise. You're not far from sauce.

>>13172789
toasting. i said toasting the bread. now fuck off to Subway nerd

>>13172848
Cope sissy faggot princess I will literally rape you

>>13172733
>>13172848
hahaha imagine being this guy
literal incel

>>13172290
>Meat is meat
What the fuck is this supposed to mean you butt munch? Wheat is wheat. Does that mean a donut and spaghetti are going to be treated the same? Fucking moron. Some types of meat are vastly different than others. You're not going to season a fucking sausage like you would a turkey you absolute ass clown.

>>13172733
he cute

>>13172733

>>13169097
u need oil and vinegar

>>13169097
Depends on the cuts you use, also the brand. The bread, and seasoning.

If you can't make a good sandwich you need to leave.

>>13172733
>mushrooms