Binging with Babish: World's Greatest Sandwich from Spanglish

♪ Hey baby I hear the blues a callin tossed salads and scrambled eggs ♪ Hey what's up guys. I am back with another episode of Binging With Babish. This week, we're gonna take a crack at the quote-unquote "World's Greatest Sandwich" from Spanglish. Now, this is pretty much just a BLT with an egg and some cheese on it I know that's not why you guys tune in to watch this show so It's going to be a good opportunity to learn about bread baking. *Phone alarm clock sounds* The first rule of bread baking is that you have to get up pretty damn early in the morning if you want to eat this thing the same day. So very much against my will, let's start cooking at 6AM We're starting off with 1 cup of room temperature water to which we are going to add half a teaspoon of instant yeast. We're going to let those dissolve before adding 5 ounces each whole wheat and bread flour. We're just going to mix those up to form a shaggy sort of dough that apparently is referred to as a "sponge". It's going to serve as the primary leavening for our bread. We're going to cover this up and let it sit at room temperature for at least 5 hours and up to 16. In the meantime, I'm gonna get some more sleep. 8 hours later, and you can see that our sponge has turned into this ooey-gooey-stretchy good stuff Let this guy ferment for as long as you can you're going to have better flavor development as a result. We're adding 19 and 1/4 ounces bread flour 1 and 1/3 cups room temperature water 2 and 1/2 ounces rye flour 2 tablespoons of honey to our sponge, that we are going to mix up... just a little bit by hand. Before attaching our kneading hook to our stand mixer and letting it go for 15 minutes. During this time, the dough is going to become very, very loose and sticky. Scrape it off your dough hook, and dump it into a lightly oiled bowl. Pat it down with your fingers, cause that seems like something you're supposed to do with bread... Cover the bowl tightly, and we're going to let this dough rise for 2 hours or until it has tripled in size. Isn't that cool? Now we're going to heavily flour our countertop because this is still a very sticky dough. We're going to turn it out onto the countertop. Then we're going to grab the edges of the dough and pull them in towards the center so that we get a nice smooth top going for our loaf. We're going to line a colander with a cheesecloth and lightly dust it with flour. Place our dough inside, smooth side down cover it with aluminum foil and let it rest for another 45 minutes, or until it has almost doubled in size. Lightly flour a parchment lined pizza peel that we're going to place on top of the colander and invert the dough thusly. Remove your colander and cheesecloth. Get the razor blade ready from your Good Fellows pasta episode and score the bread across the center. Give the surface of the dough a good spritz with water before placing it into a 450° oven on a pizza stone. 35 to 45 minutes later, your patience will be rewarded with this beauty. Tap the outside of the loaf because again, it seems like something you're supposed to do. and let that loaf cool for at least 2 hours In the meantime, we're gonna roast our bacon. Roasting your bacon is a very cool way to end up with perfectly evenly cooked bacon every time. 2 very patient hours later, let's check out the crumb structure of our bread... Looking good! Hack off 2 slices and toast one side with monterey jack cheese the other side with a healthy smear of mayo. Top the mayo with 4 slices of tomatoes. Hit 'em with a little bit of salt. This is what Thomas Keller instructed Adam Sandler to do in the movie. Bacon... A lot of bacon. A sunny side up fried egg that we have, of course, fried in the bacon fat. Why wouldn't we? And lastly a few leaves of butter leaf lettuce before we top this guy up, slice him in half, and take at least 20 minutes to stop and stare in wonderment at that cross section. This sandwich was designed to be enjoyed with a tall cold beer and I am in no position to argue. Is it the worlds greatest sandwich? I can't say for sure, but I can say that it was totally worth the 12 hours that it took to make.

Channel: Babish Culinary Universe

Views: 6,449,775

Rating: 4.9573016 out of 5

Keywords: pan de campagne, binging with babish sandwiches, sandwiches, blt, tomoto, sunny side up egg, egg, bread, cheese, homemade, egg sandwich, sandwich, runny egg, bacon lettuce tomato, bacon, world's greatest sandwich from spanglish, lettuce, binging with babish, blt sandwich, spanglish, how to make homemade bread, sandwich from spanglish, pear qwerty horse, world's greatest sandwich, binging with babish spanglish, homemade bread, binging with babish world's greatest sandwich

Id: A_l8_C-EO38

Length: 3min 43sec (223 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 05 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/OliverBabish]

/u/Ondrikus you are a goddamn G!! Thanks so much!!

Thank you guys for watching - let know if you have any ideas or requests, I'm looking for my next episode to shoot this weekend!

[u/dweglarz15]

Great song, Cream On Chrome by Ratatat

[u/[deleted]]

He's got this light carefree humor while making his food that seems so chill and natural, he seems like a really cool guy irl

[u/whendoesOpTicplay]

I've always wanted to make a loaf of bread. Might try it over break.

[u/Hockeyfan_52]

Great now I have to go watch Frasier.

[u/Kelsadar]

Is this guy from Montreal..? Saw La Fin Du Monde at the end and now I'm curious.

[u/Javanz]

Love his videos.
And man that bacon looked good

[u/thebageljew]

I would devour that

[u/always1putt]

What a great channel