Wrap Artist: How To Wrap A Sandwich

Tightly wrapping a sandwich in parchment paper evenly compresses it on all sides, which has multiple benefits.

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Tightly wrapping a sandwich in parchment paper evenly compresses it on all sides, which has multiple benefits. The ingredients meld more fully than they would in a sandwich left to its own devices; it's as if the pressure "cooks" them. And when you slice through the package, both halves remain absolutely intact. Here's how to do it:

1. For a sandwich on standard-size sliced bread, use a 12″ × 16″ rectangle of paper. Place the sandwich in the center, and gather the ends of the paper above it.

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by Annainmd on 2011-08-27

Let's face it. The US has the WORST of worse sandwich breads that are mushy and totally tasteless. Even umpteen seeds pumped into mushy bread doesn't make it tasteful. If a good artisan bread/farmers bread were more widely baked, it wouldn't be necessary to wrap the sandwich into two different layers of paper. It would stay put in a single piece of plastic wrap, brown paper, parchment or whatever. If a reader would like to get an idea of what good bread should be like, do a google for how-to sites. One is www.thefreshloaf.com Various Farmer Markets/Natural food stores are great places to find these good loaves.