Are you thinking what we are thinking, too?
Have you ever wondered why we prefer to eat our favorite sandwiches from a deli rather than making them at home? The answer is that it’s never the same! No matter how hard you try to make your sandwich taste as heavenly as you find in a deli, the sandwich we make at home just doesn’t cut it. It may come close, but it does not have the perfect deli taste. Here are a few reasons why sandwiches always taste better in a deli than at home!
The fresher your ingredients are, the better your sandwich will taste. It is not possible to have fresh ingredients every day at home. You usually buy a week’s bread and vegetables ahead and store them in the fridge, right? Well, preserved ingredients definitely taste different from what fresh ingredients would. The deli restaurants get fresh bread and ingredients every day to serve hundreds of customers. Providing stale ingredients for their sandwiches would otherwise drive the customers away. Naturally, fresh bread, vegetables, and other high-end ingredients make the sandwiches taste much nicer than they would if you made them at home.
Most of the time, when you are making a sandwich at home, seasoning feels like an afterthought. Usually, you take whatever seasoning is available to you at home and sprinkle it over your sandwich ingredients. In a deli, however, it is done differently. The deli chefs consider seasoning to be an integral part of making the sandwich. They prepare the seasoning with much thought. They take into consideration flavor pairings and the amount of seasoning required to make a good sandwich. You would usually find even the basic mayo seasoned with some other ingredients that make the sandwiches taste so much better!
A well-constructed sandwich is a well-eating sandwich! When you make a sandwich at home, whether to be packed for your work or to be eaten later, you don’t take into account that a sandwich must be had immediately after it’s made. The deli restaurants take utmost care in constructing the sandwich. They layer the ingredients using their amounts in a manner that would create the perfect balance of flavor.
