It’s early in the summer, but I found a nice heirloom tomato at Whole Foods yesterday and made my first tomato sandwich of 2023. Dang, it was so good!

Here’s an interesting 4:47 YouTube video by Kenji Lopez showing how he makes tomato sandwiches:
https://youtu.be/Oc-R1hOrNow

My method is much different, but that’s OK. When it comes to food, each cat in his own bag, I say. One thing Kenji and I agree on: lots of mayo!

Likely I’ll get flamed for lack of bacon. I like Ts (tomato sandwiches), and BTs (bacon & tomato sandwiches). But BLTs – not so much. Lettuce doesn’t earn the space it occupies IMO. As it is, my tomato sandwiches are so loaded that I have to eat ’em over the sink to collect fall out.

bread, mayo, tomato, S+P, sliced cheddar

I'm with you on that, sse; but will use Asiago cheese. Thanks for the great lunch idea!

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Lettuce doesn’t earn the space it occupies IMO.

nicely phrased....

Nearby Grainger County, TN is famous for its tomatoes.

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Originally posted by signewt:

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Lettuce doesn’t earn the space it occupies IMO.

nicely phrased....

like in a salad?

Tomato sammichs. Portland Round Steak <fried or not> (bologna) cheese and mayonnaise, tomato sammichs. Your standard ol' BLT. BLT+ that's with cheese. Yes please!

Love them all....

I didn't plant any garden or tomatoes this year, but the neighbor has a nice garden and told me that they have more than enough tomatoes (if there were ever such a thing?), so she said that I'll be getting some. I can't wait!

ARman

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:


Likely I’ll get flamed for lack of bacon.

A tomato sandwich has only 5 ingredients IMO:

Dead ripe summer tomatoes
Bread: I like Martin’s Potato bread
Mayo: preferably Duke’s
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper

If people are flaming you for “lack of bacon” then they don’t know anything about a true tomato sandwich.

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Originally posted by sse:
bread, mayo, tomato, S+P, sliced cheddar

I agree with this. To add, you need to make sure you get some good, stick on your teeth type bread.

THE INFAMOUS JERSEY TOMATO (aka Rutgers Beefsteaks), doesn't make an appearance until mid July

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Originally posted by downtownv:
THE INFAMOUS JERSEY TOMATO (aka Rutgers Beefsteaks), doesn't make an appearance until mid July

Jersey tomatoes are the best for tomato sandwiches!

Picked my first real tomato last Wed., a small one that redm but not quite fully ripe, but was in ground contact, been getting cherries for a couple of weeks. Very early for the DC area, we usually get our first right around Independence Day. You can bet the BLT's and pretty much every other sammitch that hosts a tomato will be in profusion in a couple of weeks.

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Originally posted by architect:
Picked my first real tomato last Wed., a small one that redm but not quite fully ripe, but was in ground contact, been getting cherries for a couple of weeks. Very early for the DC area, we usually get our first right around Independence Day. You can bet the BLT's and pretty much every other sammitch that hosts a tomato will be in profusion in a couple of weeks.

We picked our first tomato last week. I picked 6 more yesterday. In a few weeks, we'll have more than we can eat.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Bread: I like Martin’s Potato bread

That is NOT Bread...If you think that's bread, you are shopping in the wrong part of the store!

If you want bacon on your tomato sandwich , then do it .Ignore the food snobs .

the classic tomato sandwich is as indicated, nothing else. the brands of the ingredients are secondary, it's all about the tomato. any vine-ripened, homegrown tomato in the dead of Summer is sublime

on a related matter, I'm a proponent of lettuce > iceberg lettuce > on a sandwich or burger > the crunch is fresh and delicious. Still it doesn't belong on a tomato sanger. if that is being a snob suck it

If you don't state the brand of mayo, how can we know if it tasted good?

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the brands of the ingredients are secondary, it's all about the tomato. any vine-ripened, homegrown tomato in the dead of Summer is sublime

While I agree with you on the tomato, respectfully, it's Dukes Mayo.

In my neck of the woods Duke's only became available in the last year or two. I've used a lot of it, but it's so different it's almost a different condiment.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by downtownv:
THE INFAMOUS JERSEY TOMATO (aka Rutgers Beefsteaks), doesn't make an appearance until mid July

Jersey tomatoes are the best for tomato sandwiches!

If you lived further south like me you'd be eating them in early June. Homegrown Rutgers Tomatoes and basil made into marinara 2 weeks ago: