I am all for brushing bread and buns with melted butter and griddling them for fried chicken sandwiches, lobster rolls, burgers, really anyplace and time toasted bread is needed. Over the years I wondered why we only used butter. I wondered about using mayonnaise as griddling medium. Once I started using the very spreadable mayo, I became reluctant to go back to butter. But as I was using the mayonnaise I wondered why I wasn't flavoring it. For our recent pop up at Inferno Pizzeria and now at Curiosity Doughnuts we are spreading our buns with a blend of mayonnaise lightly seasoned with mustard for our fried chicken sandwich. The blend adds a bright sharpness to the rich, creamy condiment and enhances the browning of the buns. For our current fried chicken sandwich the mayonnaise-mustard blend is right. But when the sandwich evolves or we create another, the bread spread is easily tweaked and tailored to our whims.
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February 20, 2011
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