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Freezing Sandwiches!
Anyone do this with a degree of success? I need to be making two lots of sandwiches for packed lunches every day but sometimes I find this a real ball ache and don't manage to do it for whatever reason, leading to having to pay for hot school dinners, sarnies at work etc. I would use something like cheese/salami as fillings - how would other fillings fare like tuna mayo or egg mayo?? Does the bread come out ok?
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The bread often comes out soggy. I would avoid frozen sandwiches.
Why not make them the night before. |
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Night before is where I try and often fail, stud u like. :P
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It's never occurred to me to do that. Good idea. How about rolls or ciabatta. Would that work better?
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When is the best time?
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Well the best time would, indeed, be the night before!
But that's not currently happening in my house!
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I used to make a job lot of cheese and pickle sandwiches (on wholemeal) and freeze them. They were always just fine! I used grated cheese.
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I used to make up a whole week's batch and freeze them with no disasters. I wonder if the person who said the bread would be soggy was defrosting them too quickly? I certainly never found that to be true.
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Slightly off-topic, but I'm sometimes I'm at meetings where a sandwich lunch is provided and there's usually lots left over for doggie bags!
They do seem to defost OK if frozen, but best result is to partially defrost them then do in a toasted sandwich maker. Solves the "bread going soggy" problem. |
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When I worked in the pub trade and had to make loads of sandwiches for the darts/pool/skittles teams every week, I used to wish that someone would invent pre-buttered bread. It would have saved me hours!
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I used to make a job lot of cheese and pickle sandwiches (on wholemeal) and freeze them. They were always just fine! I used grated cheese.
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Did you use butter or a spread like Flora, too? What's the time between taking them out and eating them?
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Truth be told I find that I just can't arsed to make sandwiches when I have a busy week and have weird hours. But if I plan it right then it's pretty easy to do. I've been tempted to freeze sandwiches but it wouldn't work for me as I need salad.
I tend to like shredded Chicken legs or bacon and egg mayo. For me the best way for me to make them is the morning I need them so they don't get soggy. To make life easier I tend to do the prep work in advance. Cooked Bacon and chicken can be made in advance and either refrigerated or frozen. The Salad is dried (Shredded Lettuce, Sliced Cucumber, Onions & Tomatoes) and put in the fridge and is usually good for 2 to 3 days in airtight containers. If I use rolls or wraps assembly takes like 1 min. Easy as that is sometime I still end up buying lunch or eating Dairylea rolls lol. |
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When I worked in the pub trade and had to make loads of sandwiches for the darts/pool/skittles teams every week, I used to wish that someone would invent pre-buttered bread. It would have saved me hours!
![]() Depends what you put in frozen sangers I think - can't imagine cheese does well, whereas spreads probably handle it alright. |
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Just buy them fresh every day.
Only poor people make their own... |
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I make them up at night put them in the fridge under cover over night and then get them out in the morning so the bread hasn't got the chance to go soggy or anything and the filling ie the butter cheese etc has all remained in the place that its meant to be kept. if you can make them the night before thats all you need to do. I put them under a dish as opposed to in a bag so that it doesn't sqaush all the filling as that might make them get a bit soggy.
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was chatting about this last night before seeing this thread - i really should start doing this as I spend a fortune on pre bought sandwiches which must be £20 a week, plus they're boring and full of salt and cr*p.
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I used some type of spread, but I don't think that was important. Took them out before I went to work, and they were defrosted by lunchtime.
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As a kid I always used to get frozen sandwiches - my mum used to make them on a Sunday for 3 of us.
They were only basic sandwiches - ham, cheese etc (no salad), but there was never any problem with them, we would take them out the night before and they would be defrosted by lunch time. It makes sense in these days when we are all trying to save the odd penny here and there. Sandwiches bought from Shops or garages are extortionate !! |
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Can't you just make a job lot of filling, and then just whack it in the sandwich in the morning? If you have tuna mayo or something, then you don't even need to butter the bread.
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tuna mayo with no fat on the bread = soggy bread!
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Would it work with wraps - say if you did a wrap with feta and cooked spinach (cooled down, of course)?
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