Toasted Sandwiches .... and I mean Proper Toasted Sandwiches!

Andy From Sligo

Is there anywhere (Cafe or otherwise) that know how to make proper toasted sandwiches? - I mean say if I say "Can I have a cheese toasted sandwich please" - I get "do you want white white or brown bread?" (well first of all I am thinking in my head - No, brown bread toasted sandwich is just plain wrong!) - so then white it is "sit down over there I will bring it over" .

When it finally comes its 2 bits of white bread toasted with a bit of melted cheese in it that collapses as you are eating it leaving all the filling falling out of it!- or melted cheese sticking to the 'greaseproof' paper or paper bag - sorry lads that is not a Toasted Sandwich .

A Toasted sandwich is what you get when you buy a Sandwich Toaster from TESCO for around 7 quid and you put your 2 bits of buttered bread into the Sandwich Toaster along with the filling and then close the lid and a few minutes later you take the toasted sandwich out of the Sandwich and its 'pinched' all the way round thus encapsulating the filling .. its lovely ... OH God I fancy a toasted sandwich now!

So anyone know if actually any cafe in Ireland can make a 'proper' toasted sandwich like that? - I mean am I using the wrong terminology maybe? - I have tried so far "Can I have a cheese cheese and tomato sauce toasted sandwich" and I have also tried "can I have a cheese toastie please" both have got me the same results. - is it called something else in Ireland? , is that where I am going wrong?

Badly Drunk Boy

Maybe specify that you was a  toasted sandwich from a toasted sandwich maker and not a grilled sandwich. I know you probably said fairly much that already, but emphasise what you don't want as well.

YouTube is your friend OP.

Unfortunately no such videos from Gus Fring or Lalo.

Or

Find a time machine. Go back in time to O'Briens sandwich bar heydey, around the mid nineties.

(Go to an O'Brien's sandwich bar now, and you'll receive a scripted response. Half the time the staff will need to read the list of ingredients on the menu)

Pissy Missy

Most places use a grill to toast the sambos, so that's the problem

Gusser09

Its mad to think that you can buy a toastie Sandwich maker for cheaper than an obriens sandwich.

whatawaster81

Declan and Donald's deli on Bolton Street do an amazing toasted sandwich. No frills just stacked. I recommend the club sandwich. You wouldn't even know it was there if you weren't local.

What breed of lunatic butters bread going into a toastie maker

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530419#Comment_119530419

And this is the problem!

Shower of bastards.

And what's the craic with the crap mustard of late!?

Also, I've noticed they stopped serving toasted sangiches after lunch. Bring back the stocks I say.

magicbastarder

here's a possibly controversial opinion - what you are looking for is not a toasted sandwich.

toasting involves exposing bread to radiant heat. you're cooking bread by exposing it to direct heat. so one of those clamshell doohickeys is not a toaster.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530486#Comment_119530486

Stocks.

Signore Fancy Pants

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530486#Comment_119530486

Jaysis.

magicbastarder

don't blame me, i don't make the rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_%28food%29

Andy From Sligo

i reckon you better buying a sangwitch toaster from homesavers or tesco and handing that in and saying "I want a cheese toastie done in that please!"

phormium

No cafe uses the sandwich toasters you are looking for because they are inefficient for what they are doing, they are a totally one trick pony whereas the grill/panini type is much more flexible.

Now what I can't find is a sandwich toaster that does not 'seal' the filling in two triangles, I want one where the sandwich is not cut/sealed diagonally cos you can't then put an egg into your sandwich without ruining it when you close the toaster! Used to have one years ago but the don't seem to make that type anymore.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530449#Comment_119530449

You must butter the slices inside and outside for a perfect toastie. Yum.

The perfect toastie is ham, cheese, onion. I don't like tomatoes in them myself because they are hotter than lava when eating.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530591#Comment_119530591

Genius. Absolute genius.

Edit: this is where we could fallout. Got to be thick slices of ham.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530560#Comment_119530560

Replace "inefficient" with "expensive"

The grill/ pannini type is more "economical".

The grill/ panini type also uses less electricity.

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530654#Comment_119530654

does not concern me as a customer (who is starving) I just want my properly sealed toasted sandwich , not bothered with efficiency or business plan of the Cafe :)

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530619#Comment_119530619

Yep thick ham or you layer. Ham, cheese, onion, ham, cheese.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530690#Comment_119530690

Phew. We're cool then.

English mustard?

Grandeeod

Newmarket on Fergus in 2001. It was before the Motorway/bypass opened. A little garage with a little Deli. A real mickey mouse affair. Well fook me sideways. It remains the best Deli sandwich ever. They had batch loaf. My work colleague and I ordered a toasted special on batch that was ham, cheese, tomato and onion. Epic! Done on a little grill thing. So good that we went back in to take a non toasted version with salad on our work trip to the Cliffs of Moher. I'll never forget milling the non toasted version at the cliffs, but remembering the toastie from earlier! We got this on the road long before Motorway services ever existed here. A toastie memory that stays with me! I've only matched it at home.

EmmetSpiceland

Does Hogan’s on South Great George’s St still do those ones in the yellow plastic wrapper?

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530591#Comment_119530591

Butter inside? I have never done that with a toasted sandwich. Always butter the outside though.

Preferred ingredients are cheese, scallion, tomato & Coleman's mustard. Some thick ham is good too.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530743#Comment_119530743

Coleslaw on the side. No mank tomatoes though.

Larbre34

The Croque Monsieur is of course the best kind of toasted sandwich.

Basically gruyere cheese, nice bit of smoked ham, whipped eggs, seasoning and French mustard blended with mayo to personal preference.

However, if you've never heard of this before, I urge you to give it a try before you judge it....

Mix of good French cheeses - brie, gruyere etc, tinned peaches well sliced or mashed, torn fresh basil and then either a drizzle of good honey or some chipotle dressing depending on whether you want it sweeter or a bit spicier.

Beautiful....

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530443#Comment_119530443

Ah will ya shhhhh , you know well that's a Dublin secret , every culchie will be up there next week looking for a hang sammich and tae.

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530806#Comment_119530806

Pretentious 😁

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530743#Comment_119530743

you could be right there in buttering the outside and not the inside , you want a bit of crunch to it yeah

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530833#Comment_119530833

Not a bit. Peasant food to the French, eaten in the fields!

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530438#Comment_119530438

maybe not these days - the last sandwich toaster I bought was in Tesco's it was around 7€ ... just looked on Tesco site now its €15 ... bloody inflation .... plus you cannot afford the electric to put it on now of course there is that too

gmisk

My favourite toasty when done in a proper old school toastie maker....beans and cheese....honestly...don't knock it til you try it.

But toasties are now for me really done in a pan...lots of butter bit of oil...put a metal weight or something on it...some nice cheese and ham on the inside. Yum.

walterking

Should be available in any decent pub that only serves men and don't do half pints

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530905#Comment_119530905

Beans and cheese. Piqued my interest. I shall report back

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530851#Comment_119530851

reminds of the time, about 5 or 6 years ago, a colleague asked in the staff canteen, 'what's that in your roll?' 'chorizo', i replied.

'ooh, check out the posh git there'

at which point marimar, our spanish colleague, burst out laughing.

sully123

Butter outside only. Made some last night. Chicken tomato and some buffalo mozzarella.

Was on an arran island some years ago. Got a toasted sandwich in a plastic bag and a room temperature pint if Guinness.

T-Maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530989#Comment_119530989

Same here. What kind of beans though - baked beans with tomato sauce?

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531011#Comment_119531011

Yes. I used to use Heinz not too much juice but some.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531011#Comment_119531011

Any other type?

Going with a mature cheddar.

Actually had beans on toast yesterday. Forgot how delicious that lunch is!

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531020#Comment_119531020

Surprisingly lidls beans are good. Not too saucy or sweet.

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530941#Comment_119530941

yeah that could be a problem because i would only want half a pint of guinness with my cheese and tomato sauce toastie and send the dear wife up to the bar to order it 😁

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531106#Comment_119531106

Tomato feckin sauce!

Technically if the heat that toasted your bread came from above and not from below then you are eating a broiled and not grilled sandwich.

What we call grilling is usually broiling.

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531112#Comment_119531112

yeah , sometimes just the simplest ingredients can taste amazing

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531140#Comment_119531140

Avocados and prawns next!? Get away from that fancy stuff.

You can't have a toasted sandwich without onions & a sprinkle of mixed herb!

You're wasting your time otherwise!

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531163#Comment_119531163

well ok sometimes i just fancy a plain ol cheese toasty naked ... as long as the cheese has some taste to it and not taste like plastic

Andy From Sligo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531194#Comment_119531194

I swear everything in Ireland has to taste of onions ... Why?? - the other day I had some cream cakes, bloody aftertaste of sodding onions! - why?? - if I want just plain ol mash potato - bloody backtaste of onions! - runny cream on my apple pie ... yep you guessed it , tasted of onions!

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119531211#Comment_119531211

Tell us the cheese! You're holding out!

nothing

For me, it's the George Foreman grill, sourdough or batch bread, buttered outside, gruyere, cheddar and maybe mozzarella, sometimes some very crispy bacon. Mmmmm been a while, muat get all the bits in my next shop...

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119530905#Comment_119530905

Beans and cheese. They should bring back hanging.

Simplicity is best.

Two slices of white bread with 3 or 4 EasiSingles.

Done.