Stupid question..how do you make a BLT?

Question

Bacon, lettuce, and tomato, I know.....but do you add mustard and pickles too? What about bbq sauce?

Answer 1

whoa, calm down first answer dude.

Typically it has mayonnaise on the bread nearest to the lettuce or on both. However, mustard and pickles are permissable :)

Answer 2

Two slices of toast with moderate mayo and the B, L, and the T. If you start adding all that other stuff doesn't that make it more than a BLT. Adding pickles would make it a BLTP, and that just doesn't have the same ring to it. As others have stated though I suppose you can add anything you want to it.

Answer 3

I see, by the responses that you have your answer. Basically, a proper BLT is self described, with the addition of mayonaise. The toast option is just that: an option.

The only critical piece of info missing is the alll-important SEQUENCE of the ingredients. They must be place in the proper order, or the entire sandwich is ruined! Play close attention! Nothing will spoil a BLT worse than a poorly assembled construction. This has to be done right, or don't even bother!

The proper sequence for a traditionalt BLT i

Answer 4

The classic BLT is Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato on toasted bread with a little mayo. You could have fun experimenting and come up with you own! Toasted bread with mayo, tomato, and cheese is good, too.

Answer 5

Recipe Ingredients:
2 Slices cheap white bread
1 T Kraft Miracle Whip or
-Mayonnaise
2 Leaves of crunchy Iceberg
-lettuce
2 Large slices of well cooked
-bacon
1 sl Ripe field-grown tomato
-(at least 10mm thick)
Recipe Instructions:
Use two slices of generic white bread, y'know, the stuff that is moist, wimpy crust, and no flavor.
Wonder Bread, Colonial Bread, Cost Cutter Bread, or any number of similar products will do.
Smear approximately 1 tablespoon of Miracle Whip (I don't eat the stuff myself - my daughter does.
Her motto: better living through chemistry).
On the slice with the spread, put on a very thick slice of tomato, 10 mm thick if possible.
Do not use just any old tomato.
For best results use an old-fashioned "field tomato", one that when a slice is put on a slab of bread, it hangs over on all sides and drips juice everywhere.
Sloppy is acceptable.
The tomato should be of very rich flavor, acidic, tones of sweetness, and of medium texture, between that of a paste tomato and a juicer that falls apart at a touch.
The best varieties are Beefsteak, Oxheart, Brandywine, Blue River, Ruby Gold, Stump of the World.
Morgage Lifter, or Big Ben.
More common acceptable varieties are Marglobe, Rutgers, Big Girl, Better Boy, and Ace.
Add the two slices of crisp bacon, limp bacon will not do at all.
Crispness is important so that the bacon breaks into pieces without chewing it off like a piece of jerky.
The bacon may be broken in order to adequately cover the entire piece of tomato.
I use pork jowl with the hide removed as a good alternative to standard bacon.
You, no doubt, have made many of these sandwiches, but you can give the recipe to one of your offspring so they can may YOU sandwiches as you recline in the wicker chaise lounge reading a good novel on the shady front porch while sipping a large glass of iced tea on a hot sunny summer afternoon and watching the neighbor across the street mow his yard.
Enjoy! John Hartman Indianapolis

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Answer 6

A basic BLT is nothing more than about 4 slices of bacon, a leaf or two of lettuce, some tomatoes and mayonnaise. I like to add additional salt and oodles of pepper to mine.

Answer 7

I like special bread - wholewheat, nut, or something different than just whitebread.
I don't like mustard and pickles on my BLT.
I do add cheese! YYYYYUUUMMMMMMMMM!

I hope I answered you're question:
"how do YOU make a BLT?" as if you are directly asking me.
What's with all the boneheads on here saying, "well traditionally..."
Duh, does anybody have an opinion anymore?

Answer 8

The ONLY way to make a BLT is with vine ripened tomatoes!!! Preferably ones from Bradley County Arkansas!!! Then you FRY real bacon (the thick kind)...(peppered is good also) then you wash and tear pieces of crisp ice burg lettuce. Toast Texas toast then slather with Miracle Whip....mmmmm!!!!!

Layer: Bread, miracle whip,2 or 3 slices of tomato,salt, pepper,bacon,lettuce,miracle whip,toast!!!

Answer 9

You can put anything you want on it. The bacon, lettuce, and tomato are the three crucial ingredients of a BLT.

Answer 10

No, just bacon lettuce tomato with mayo. I like to toast the bread too.

Answer 11

This is how I make mine:

lightly toast extra sourdough bread
mayo smear on both slices
lettuce, tomato, mayo smear, salt, pepper, bacon, top with other slice

sometimes I'll add avocado, if I do, I smash it on top of the bread after the mayo