Cheap VS Expensive BLT Sandwich
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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I NEED THE RECEIPT!!!!! Super surprised by this result, hope you enjoy these videos as much as we do making them... if you have an idea for a future cheap vs steep recipe let me know and don't forget to check out the others if you enjoyed this on the playlist here ua-cam.com/video/5awtkLiSXHY/v-deo.html
It's becoming more and more obvious to me, and probably others too, that your daughter Chloe (I hope I spelled her name right) is going to be a big star one day. She is extrovert smiling and bubbly. At such a young age, she is so articulate when talking about food.
Is there a way to get a copy of your receipt digitally? Here in the US many stores are doing electronic receipts now and you can just use the website/app if you want to see your receipt. Of course you have to be signed up with the store to get the receipt that way.
A real B.L.T has 3 slices of bread and is done in a toaster not a frying pan. The b.l.t originated from Canada in the early 1920s.
Next time you might want to bake the bacon 🥓🥓 in the oven at 400° F for 8-15 minutes depending on how crispy you want it. Keep an eye 👁️ on it so you don't burn it. The fatty part should be a golden brown and crispy. 😉
i cant believe you didn't know the BLT was an American sandwich Barry, we just wish we'd invented it
I personally would love a spin-off series where you revisit these videos and combine your favorite elements to make the ultimate thing
10/10 would binge
Man I like iceberg lettuce as long as it’s fresh and you take the outside layers off. I hate non crunchy, leafy lettuce. I need my crunch!
haha yep, no saggy lettuce please!
@@mrbarrylewis I dont like Lettuce when it smacks me in the face...
The crunch is underappreciated!
Top tip for crunch: Instead of pulling off leaves, put a thin slice of iceberg on the sandwich.
Claire Saffitz shared that tip, it's really good.
Just different types for different uses. If you want crunch, get a crunchy one. If not, don't :D
You tried saving paper but even worse you got a bigger bit of paper 😂 1:15
Yes lol
@@mrbarrylewis Classic Barry ;)
Supermarket till receipts are not recyclable due to the way the ink is printed on the paper
@@CricketEngland Here in the States, they just use heat-sensitive paper, so no ink involved. It's like a very skinny fax.
One would think that in this wireless age, *some* clever little genius would make a checkout program that gave you a custom QR code onscreen that you could scan with your phone and get an electronic receipt.
@@CarlGorn For the most part that's how we operate in the UK too. When it comes to self-service, we typically have the option to print out the previous transaction receipt, but it's highly variable depending on the store and its associated tech level regarding self-service. But we almost always use a thermal printer that etches the resulting transaction onto special paper.
Mrs.B is so sweet and polite. When she apologized for not understanding what side to put the bread it was so nice! I love when she’s on the channel!
Hey Barry! It might be nice to make a hybrid, take the best of both worlds to make the ultimate dish. Could be a nice addition to the cheap vs steep series!
Hey, yeah that's not a bad idea! We figured that we would just talk about our fave combo at the end instead but could make it a 'ultimate BLT' or something
Where I am in the US, the trigger for a BLT is a fresh garden tomato in the summer.
And the toast is just made in the toaster.
Their toast made this way looks WAY more delicious 😋
Yes, yes, yes. When I grow tomatoes I get bacon and the rest...a slice of heaven
its hard to compare when you use a truffle mayo and then a normal mayo because they are completely different things right?
Yeah it would be like comparing a yellow mustard to dijon.
@@Okurka. don’t forget all the starch and gums to thicken the water laden light Mayo. That is why I laughed when he said how greasy the pan with the non-light Mayo was. It always was going to be as regular Mayo is like over half oil and the majority of the light one would just evaporate.
Always disappoints me when they don’t compare like for like as it just invalidates the comparison.
Equally an expensive beef tomato is just an overpriced cheap tomato with too much water and no flavour. He should have gone for something like a marmonde or some heritage thing.
Light Mayo at that
@@drbillwotb8324 so should I get Heinz light Mayo or normal Heinz Mayo?
so many B.L.T. mistakes here, light mayo, not seasoning their tomatoes, pan frying the bread, back bacon instead of pork-belly bacon. I weep over the sandwiches these could have been.
Here's the thing: If you used the cheap mayo and bread, and used the expensive fillings, you'd probably like that more than either you made here. Often it's not how steep you are, but what you choose to be steep on.
so true, so wise!
Yeah, I like these series, but I wish he'd buy more like-for-like products. Like an expensive but normally-favoured mayo in this case.
@@GajitUK Agreed. Truffle is way too earthy for a BLT. Now, if he would have been able to find a kewpie-style mayo (made with only the yolk of the egg) made from duck eggs, that would be a fair comparison. Not to mention delicious.
@@GajitUK The bread too. I love different types of bread, but Rye bread is vile. You could spend 100x the amount on the fillings, if you're putting it between Rye bread I wouldn't like it. Needs to be like for like, rather than just cheap vs fancy
I think the expensive bread should stay, but swap the mayo out. Crusty toasted bread is perfect for a BLT
i was thinking before you guys went in to eat "i already know the cheap one is gonna be miles better" can never go wrong with the classic blt. ❤️
Love these videos! One of my favourite series 💕Tomato cutting trick for sandwiches that I learned from culinary school, instead of cutting it down the sides like you did, cut it into rounds starting from the stem/butt end, and you won’t have the seeds falling out like you did and you’ll get more tomato flesh in each bite 😊
I thought that’s how everyone cut tomatoes 😂 keeps the seeds in
If you’re trying to make a Greek salad or something like that where you don’t want it to be wet, it works great to cut it the way Mrs. B does so you can scoop the seeds out :)
Was gonna say the same thing , a horizontal slice looks nicer and holds the seeds in
@@Antira19 But the flavour is in the seeds and juice, not the red pulp. Pure tomato juice is actually a pale yellow!
I have a small idea for something and it's all thanks to your channel for inspiring a newbie like me to just mess around with ingredients, I only got the courage to go in the kitchen a few months ago and I made myself some fries, which was super simple, but with it, I got this habit of making fry sauce using a lot of mayo and different spices....well, I kind of got addicted to that sauce and it's super unhealthy so..a few days ago, I was making fries and for some reason, I decided that instead of mayo, I'll make a basic mint chutney with yoghurt and use that instead of mayo.....and it tasted amazing! Thanks for the inspiration through these years mate.
Love these videos. I reckon if the steep had used normal mayo rather than truffle mayo it would have been a much fairer comparison! Truffles will completely change the taste! The steep one looked delicious! But I am very picky about mayo, it can totally change the taste!
I'd love to see Phoebe doing a Cheap vs Steep on veggie meat alternatives. I've been vegetarian for over 30 years and have noticed a big difference in quality between big name and supermarket own brands. I'd be interested to know what she thinks xx
She's a child, why are you requesting content from her? Just let her be a kid. she's not opted into entertainment like her dad, and clearly seems uncomfortable on camera for a while now... I think you can survive without hearing veggie food reviews from a pre teen you've never met
What a sandwich. It's really making me hungry. Cheers, Barry!
I mean, they were both really good in their own way! But the crunch of the sourdough really did help!
as a stoner, watching them freak out about truffles getting them high is hilarious
How about a replay cheap a steep reverse where if possible u use the steep stuff at cheap supermarket and cheap stuff at the steep supermarket
cool idea, even the cheap stuff at the expensive supermarkets isn't always that cheap so could be interesting
Any sandwich with bacon regardless if its cheap or steep is absolutely fine with me lol
haha yeah I know what you mean!
You should do cheap v steep but instead of just using a more expensive supermarket you should go to a farmers market style shop. The price would be insane.
yeah good call! I may look at ingredients online too!
@@mrbarrylewis yeah totally, getting a flitch of bacon directly from a Wiltshire farmer, source the eggs for the mayo directly from a truly free-range farmer, freshly picked Greens and Tomatoes, artisan or home made bread, all combined would have to be the most, extra, ultimate, Sandwitch.
I think that homemade bread is a really good chance to explore the differences between the cheaper and pricier ingredients. Something with so few ingredients(literally just flour, water, salt, yeast) means that the differences have nowhere to hide. You could also use it as an opportunity to also try out the different butters, and see what the different butters do to both the cheaper and steeper bread, and see if perhaps cheap flour is fine, but expensive butter really makes a difference.
My wife puts the bread in the toaster and uses ice berg lettuce, always good. The food critic doesn't really know much about a good BLT
With Phoebe's interest in a vegetarian lifestyle, you could do a series with her where you try various veg. substitutes for meaty meals. For example, you could do homemade carrot or mushroom bacon and see how it compares.
Barry has done carrot bacon in the past too :)
She's a child, stop creating demand for a child to make content. She didn't opt into being a youtuber like her parents.
why did i lean in to smell the bread 😂😂😂
Never seen anyone cut a tomato "vertically" rather than turning it on its side first. . . Is it just me???
Came to comments just to see about that - totally weirded me out! When you cut parallel to the stem, there is more support structure to hold the seeds in.
Side by side, the cheap looks perfectly good to me, and I would be happy to have it.
Aaw love laying with my pregnancy pillow, a box of French fancies and a cuppa with my favourite utube family. Especially on this miserable Thursday afternoon x
@@Okurka. A pregnancy pillow is just a type of pillow and you don't have to be pregnant to use one. They're comfy to snuggle in.
I think those two are just hangry, lol 😁
Lovely. Thank you folks. Nothing quite as much fun as watching two people who really care about each other do something fun. Mrs. B's sandwich was much better looking, btw.
This is so very interesting to see the British difference. In the USA I have never toasted the bread for the BLT, I actually prefer iceberg lettuce, and have never used back bacon have always used pork belly bacon. Now I will need to make BLT's soon...
We only toast our bread for BLTs. WE don't grill, butter or anything.
Toasted bread, Mayonaise, Lettuce, Tomato, Bacon..... Perfection
Minus the mayo, then it’s perfection.
I really like this series! Interesting to see the difference between the ingredients and flavor outcome!
this could have been a game changer....but its ya cheap blt and i love it
a cheap and a steep BLT is worlds apart, I can tell before I even watch it
Here in the USA, I've always toasted the bread in the toaster first, then spread the mayo over it.
I love these cheapo vs steep videos, and tbh I'm not surprised at the result. Too posh (lol Chloe) and the ingredients compete!
Suggestion!!! Since you and Mrs. B liked the steep bacon & bread, have you thought about making a 3rd BLT with a combination of ingredients from the two that you think would make the ultimate sandwich? Basically to just let us know if we had the money to splurge on one or two “posh” items (as Chloe would say), which ones you’d recommend. Absolutely love this series, fantastic job!!
Y'all got try making Reubens next. Cheep vs Steep style of course. Toasted rye bread, corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, Russian dressing... absolutely divine if made properly.
not that any of us wouldn't be absolutely thrilled at the possibility of a little Barry running around and cooking with his parents and beautiful sisters....
but teen girls can be a handful themselves. i had one daughter and 4 sons. one daughter was way more worry, work and aggravation than all 4 boys combined.
"it's linked to marijuana, that'll add a bit of a kick" best that's ever been said on this channel 🤣🤣🤣
Haha dude weed! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The article being read was from The Guardian's "How to Eat" series. Always a good and, at times, humourous read.
Lol Mrs B when your lettuce touched her sandwich *slides bread, pinches off lettuce.. ewwwww!*lol
36p for a whole loaf of bread? I just bought bread on sale for $2.89!
at this point, Barry is the only person on the whole internet who is keeping the salt bae meme alive 😭 LMAO
Please do this with traditional carbonara - it's such simple ingredients I think it would work well. Cheap/steep pasta, cheap/steep egg, cheap/steep guancale/pancetta (or bacon for cheap), and cheap/steep parmeggiano/pecorino
We don’t toast with the mayo on it.
Watching this, converting the currency (even back before the pound crashed), and looking at the prices it really makes me jealous for some of these things. So much cheaper in the UK for basic sundries compared to the US.
I love how you break this down! I’m doing Best Buy with my students in maths and I think I’ll show them the start of this video
In the USA, it’s always streaky bacon (cooked crispy) for a BLT.
There's a restaurant around here that makes a STABLE - Spam, Tomato, Avocado, Bacon, Lettuce, Egg (poached), on a scallion pancake for a bun (it's a Chinese restaurant). Definitely worth a go.
Ya just can’t mess with a classic. That’s why it’s a classic!
came back to watch this again and your cheap bacon looks better than what I can find typically in the US
We had BLTs the other day. I added some ground black pepper, avocado and mustard on mine. And on the side we had fried egg that you could dip The BLT into the runny yolk if you want it
That sounds delicious! I might have to make a fried egg on the side the next time I make BLTs, that's so clever!
@@jexx30 Thank you. I hope you enjoy it. I've even added the egg in the sandwich an added cheese for a breakfast that cant be beat
as someone who can't math, i'm more impressed by your mathing skills
Barry, i know you know what a toaster is... why grill the bread instead of toasting it.🤔
1:24 good for you Barry as Supermarket till receipts are not recyclable due to the way the ink is printed on the paper!
I normally don't do it, but the one time I needed it recently, doh! lol
A BLT will always be a "basic cheap meal" that you honestly don't need to go crazy over. Cheap just reminds me of a Sunday lunch or other just like hanging out having a "nice" cheap basic lunch.
100% if you handed me a fancy BLT with all kinds of fancy fluff I wouldn't be happy, hand me the one that cost ~$3 to make, and I will love it and want to inhale it as fast as possible.
Hi everyone, I thought you would already know that the big companies in the discount stores offer their no-name goods cheaper. Also labeled as discount store brands. Just compare the purchased packaging, manufacturer, company, filling location and then be amazed that cheap is better than expensive. I rarely buy promotional items because I don't want to pay for the company name, I want the real taste. Thanks for this Hammer Video, my Favorite is all time the Cherap Ware.
Perfect BLT is a delicate balance of all ingredients. It's a dance - a work of art.
Barry, I am floored how inexpensive produce and other things are in the UK. Here in the US, a single head of generic iceberg lettuce is over $2.00 USD, beefsteak tomatoes are at least $2.00 USD per lb, and bacon is about $7.00 USD for a 1lb package.
Wish it’d been ordinary steep mayo instead of truffle flavoured.
BLT sandwich first appeared in British cookbooks in the late 1920s, and its popularity boomed in America after World War II due to these important factors: lettuce and tomato became available in supermarkets and women, who were usually housewives, began to work outside their homes in much greater numbers than before
Nice way to start the day 👍
Thanks :)
@@mrbarrylewis your videos are adorable also I see Homer in the background judging >~
You’re welcome! You and Mrs BLT are always so funny together. 😃 Gotta love a good BLT. These both looked great! I’m going grocery shopping today, I’m going to have to make one. 😋
Unpopular opinion - choosing an INCREDIBLE tomato can make a cheap BLT 1000% times better
I’ve had a really dreadful day, but seeing that you uploaded and watching you and Mrs B made me feel so much better. Thanks for all the fun content, you always raise my spirits. Lotsa love from Cape Town to you and your three lovely ladies xxx
Edit: just a lil thing my mom taught me about sandwiches: if you’ve got bread with holes and you’re worried about leakage (who isn’t? I can’t stand wasting a single drop of mayo) wash and dry your lettuce and put it on both pieces of buttered bread/toast before any other ingredients. The lettuce keeps all the other ingredients inside and stops them from making the bread soggy. That’s how my mom made the best lunch sandwiches for me when I was in primary school. Thanks Mom!
Hope you are having a better day.
@@lindastrandquist2429 I am, thank you so much! You’re really so kind. I hope you’re doing well xxx
Edit: your kind comment made was so lovely, it really made me smile. Thank you again for taking the time out of your day to be kind to a stranger. You’re very kind. Love to you and yours xxx
So I'm not sure what type of bacon you guys have over there but in the states our bacon is somewhat thin, cured and smoked. For a BLT it's ideal to get it crisp, use some basic Romaine because its a bit more crisp And make sure you always salt and pepper your tomatoes. Oh and you're legally obligated to cut it diagonally
not sure the BLT was invented in the US, but pretty sure that it got the name BLT in a US diner. many diner phrases were lost to the mists of time, but this is one that stuck around.
Never made mine that way, have always toasted the bread, put butter then mayo on, then add the lettuce first (to soak the wetness of the tomatoes), the tomatoes, then the bacon, add salt and pepper and then other piece of buttered bread.
Gonna defo try this regards john
True BLT is on white bread with Mayo, fresh garden tomatoes and lettuce with crispy bacon! That is the only way it should ever be made or served. That is from an American and a cook! Bread is done in a toaster not a pan! We would use iceberg or romaine lettuce on it! The cheap one is the best always!
These episodes always end up making me wonder how the hell it is that groceries are so much cheaper in the UK than over here in the US. Your expensive gourmet ingredients are still cheaper than the crappy stuff at the cheap grocery stores here!
You should try being in Australia! Our food prices are painful. Like 3 times what they are paying.
I love this series
I always feel like I get a bit of a mental vacation when you guys do videos together.:) you're so sweet together
We use streaky bacon over here ... but honestly any bacon you've got is awesome bacon! 😂 Some things just shouldn't be poshed up! 🙂
When you do the cheap vs steap cand you make a middle one with the stuff you like? So for example use the expensive bread, bacon, cheap mayo Lettuce and tomatoes. I'd love seeing this in future videos, since you do have extra you can use
BLTs being american makes a lot of sense, America is a very sandwich heavy place
try next time to use exact same ingridients, just premium ones
What do you mean sorry? The premium were all steep ones
@@mrbarrylewis i mean use the same type of mayo (like both light, not light and truffle), same bread type (sour bread, not sour and toast one /not sure how you call it in English :D/)
Love these cheep vs steep
Cheesecake from Claire and Bacon from Barry, today's just making me very hungry here on youtube!!! :P
Honestly, I think the sandwich should be called a TBL, because the tomato should really be the star of the sandwich. It's hard to go wrong with bacon, but a generic supermarket tomato that's been refrigerated (which destroys some of the flavor compounds) will ruin the sandwich, while an amazing garden tomato really makes the whole sandwich. And while I would never make a salad out of iceberg lettuce, it's definitely the better choice for a BLT so it doesn't compete with the tomato. Same goes for the mayo, a good quality mayo is nice, but not a flavored mayo, for the same reason. The tomato is the star.
Still waiting on the cheep Vs steep Sunday dinner.
We add peanut butter with the mayo. It inhances the flavor of the bacon and mayo
I'm off to the shops. You've given me a craving!!!
For my ultimate BLT I toast the bread and then butter it, replace the mayo with brown sauce put bacon on the toast and then put another sice of toast on top of the bacon. Discard the lettuce and tomato.
Here in the states, a BLT is made with what you Brits would call "Streaky Bacon". Maybe give that a go?
I love videos with mrs b she’s so sweet
7:09 I never have my nose close enough to the phone when he asks us to smell something and as we all know, it only works the first time.
By the way, you can get away with cheap bacon if it's smoked (as mentioned) but also if you cook it until ALL of it is crisp. The cheap stuff is very fatty and I personally have texture issues if the fatty parts aren't crisp.
Optional: For a little extra tangy kick, you can swap out the mayo for cheap store brand Miracle Whip (usually called salad dressing in the store brands).
Now take that money you saved by buying cheap bacon and upgrade your bread a bit, then you'll have a darn fine BLT for a moderately cheap price 😉
Steep looks really nice!
There is a BLT called "The Spanglish Sandwich". It is found in the movie "Spanglish" and called "the world's best blt". The recipe is fairly simple and includes an egg. I have tried variations of the recipe and can confirm it can be a very good sandwich indeed!
Poor Phoebe is standing there going uh-huh but she hasn't had a bite because she's vegetarian and she seemed lost in the moment 😂😂
I'm starting to think she's only veggie on camera lol
@@mrbarrylewis I think this is true for most people. :D
@@mrbarrylewis They do make veggie bacon. She could have had her own.
I'm not sure I have ever had a BLT with UK style bacon. American would have been less meat and more crunch so especially the posh one might taste very different. Also I love adding cheese to mine, BLTC.
i have never seen a BLT done this way but looks so yummy
I’m pretty sure that a roundel means cutting the tomato perpendicular to the stalk rather than how you did it.
It's the superior method for slicing tomatoes, as the central section holds the surrounding seeds and flesh together.
The comparison between the amount of solid flesh and wet seed covering on the slices would have been more obvious if they had been sliced the correct way.
I’m watching from the U.S. and I’m so surprised how much cheaper your groceries are every time you do these videos. These are one of my faves though!
I believe that the order in which the ingredients are placed in the bread makes all the difference. Personally I go slices of tomato, a good sprinkle of salt to draw the moisture away from the bottom layer of bread, a good grind of black pepper, then the lettuce to cover the tomato slices, and some more fresh ground black pepper, next drizzle a little of the juices from the frying pan and then add the bacon, finally topping the sandwich with the slice of bread . Notice that I don’t toast my bread at all and there is a complete lack of mayonnaise or any other sauces. If I have a choice of bread I prefer to have my sandwiches in what locally is known as a t-cake( West Yorkshire) but it has various names throughout the country from a bap to a roll, an oven bottom cake or muffin.
The type of salt used is also a factor in flavor. And who in their ever loving mind uses truffle mayo on a BLT. That is a sin ya know.
I'm amazed how your standard white bread can be so increadibly cheap, here in sweden a standard white toast loaf like that would be 2-2.5 pounds just for the "cheap" basic bread
We have a law that certain staple foods like bread are exempt from tax. On top of farm subsidies I think that is why the bread is so cheap. It could also be a loss leader. 🙂
Right? Same for us in the USA - our groceries cost a lot more than theirs
In 60 yrs I've NEVER, and would NEVER, use rye bread for a BLT! 😫
White bread, thin smoky bacon(cooked crispy), lettuce, thin sliced tomato, mayo, salt & pepper!!! 😘😋😘
Love you see my favourite UA-cam creator make my favourite sandwich plus show a good example relationship
How about a third version of these that is a combination of both. Like which ingredients are ok cheap but which you would really really want the expensive one. Maybe cheap bread, mayo and tomatoes but expensive bacon and lettuce.
Hi Barry
Cheep verses steep ideas: omelet pizza, spaghetti with meatballs, chicken parm sub, pie alamode, lava cake with ice cream? Also loved the carbonara idea.
I agree with lots of others. It'd be very nice to see a post video hybrid combanation dish, with the best elements of both verssions.
Thanks for the great vvideo.
No need to buy a fancy Mayo.
When I make BLTs, I just use Helmanns mayo, but I add some Dijon Mustard and a little bit of honey to offset the mustard (A good honey mustard is also acceptable if you don't want to faff about with honey and mustard.)
Same with the lettuce, nothing fancy or hipster, just plain old Iceberg lettuce always works the best.