# BLT sandwich - assembly order **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845 "2018-05-26T04:34:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/1 "2018-05-26T04:34:48Z")
What is the proper order of ingredients when assembling a BLT … and why? (Tonight’s late-nite snack may have inspired this post.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/2 "2018-05-26T04:56:52Z")
Oh, shit. You have hit a nerve. I say bottom bread/ lettuce/ bacon/ tomato (onion)/ mayo/ top bread. Mr.Wrekker disapproves of this quite normal arrangement. He now fixes his own sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/3 "2018-05-26T05:04:09Z")
I do it bread, mayo, tomato, bacon, lettuce, mayo bread, mostly so the tomatoes will lay flat. (Onion? 😕 ) One of my tomato plants has two flowers already, so I have hopes of having lots of BLTs this summer. Store tomatoes will just not do. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/4 "2018-05-26T05:08:50Z")
It’s a BLT. Bread Mayo Bacon Lettuce Tomato Avocado Mayo Bread ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/5 "2018-05-26T05:11:25Z")
No no nooo. No avocado! My tomato plants are flowering too. Yay! (😉 you can avocado if you really must) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/6 "2018-05-26T05:15:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > No no nooo. No avocado! > > … > > (😉 you can avocado if you really must) No avocado? :eek: You’re not a weirdo, are you? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/7 "2018-05-26T05:29:12Z")
I kinda am. I like avocado. I am not sure of it on a BLT, though. I am willing to give it try. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/8 "2018-05-26T05:47:41Z")
Bread (toast, actually.) Butter Mayo Tomato Salt, pepper, Tobasco Bacon Lettuce Mayo Butter Toast You’re welcome. ETA: cheese optional between bacon and lettuce. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/9 "2018-05-26T05:57:46Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Oh, shit. You have hit a nerve. I say bottom bread/ lettuce/ bacon/ tomato (onion)/ mayo/ top bread. Mr.Wrekker disapproves of this quite normal arrangement. He now fixes his own sandwiches. What, he expects the top bread to be on the bottom? How can a BLT be wrong, assuming the bread is outside and the rest is inside, it has bacon lettuce and tomato, plus extras if people like extras? (I mean, I get that on sandwiches where cheese is supposed to melt, the cheese must be in the correct location. But BLT?) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/10 "2018-05-26T06:08:52Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > …cheese… Are you insane? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/11 "2018-05-26T06:22:03Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > What, he expects the top bread to be on the bottom? > > How can a BLT be wrong, assuming the bread is outside and the rest is inside, it has bacon lettuce and tomato, plus extras if people like extras? > > (I mean, I get that on sandwiches where cheese is supposed to melt, the cheese must be in the correct location. But BLT?) I like lettuce on the bottom. It just makes the sandwich more stable. IMO. Mr.Wrekker thinks that’s stupid. But it’s my kitchen, my rules. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/12 "2018-05-26T06:36:22Z")
From top to bottom: bread, mayo, lettuce, bacon, tomato, lettuce, mayo, bread. The lettuce acts as a layer of insulation to keep things from getting too soggy. Bacon and tomato absolutely have to be in the middle. I’m also okay with leaving the top layer of lettuce off, if you should choose. But the order should be BTL. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/13 "2018-05-26T06:37:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I kinda am. I like avocado. I am not sure of it on a BLT, though. I am willing to give it try. Avocado is okay. But it makes it a BLAT, not a BLT. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/14 "2018-05-26T07:07:45Z")
My BLT from top to bottom: 1. Bread (Your choice. I prefer toasted sourdough.) 2. Tomato 3. Lettuce 4. Bacon 5. Bread Optional - Mayonnaise (which I’m allergic to so I leave it off) and/or Tabasco/Sriracha sauce (applied directly to the bacon). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/15 "2018-05-26T12:36:06Z")
Fried slice Mayo Tomato Tomato Tomato Bacon Mayo Fried slice Yes, I know that I left off the lettuce. I hardly ever have any in the house, because I use it for hardly anything, and any buyable quantity would mostly go bad before I used it. Which isn’t a big deal, since it’s the least important ingredient. But if I happen to have it, it’d go in between the bacon and the tomato. The tomato and the bacon are both in discrete pieces, that need the mayo to help glue them into place. But the lettuce will be in leaves which are mostly bread-sized, and hence don’t need anything to hold them together. And the rough bacon sits on top of the flat tomato slices (which in turn sit on flat bread) better than the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/16 "2018-05-26T12:49:25Z")
It isn’t even 9 in the morning and I now have a huge craving for a BLT… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/17 "2018-05-26T13:00:01Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > It isn’t even 9 in the morning and I now have a huge craving for a BLT… I know, right? I just planted the tomatoes last week, so I’ve got a couple months to go (with the Early Girls) before it can become a daily lunch. (It isn’t quite worth it with supermarket tomatoes.) If I’m feeling gourmet, it’ll be with Neuske’s bacon and a couple slices of homemade [shokupan](http://www.dreamsofdashi.com/shokupan/) (Japanese white) bread. I am very much influenced by [the Serious Eats BLT manifesto](https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/08/blt-manifesto-how-to-make-best-bacon-lettuce-tomato-sandwich.html), but, I have to say, that is the best goddamned BLT sandwich ever. (I don’t toast the bread in bacon fat usually, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/18 "2018-05-26T13:11:18Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > From top to bottom: bread, mayo, lettuce, bacon, tomato, lettuce, mayo, bread. The lettuce acts as a layer of insulation to keep things from getting too soggy. Bacon and tomato absolutely have to be in the middle. I’m also okay with leaving the top layer of lettuce off, if you should choose. But the order should be BTL. Agreed, except I do the tomato then the bacon. Not that it makes a difference that I can see: it’s just that the bacon on top of tomato lies flatter than the tomato on top of the bacon. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/19 "2018-05-26T15:16:11Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > From top to bottom: bread, mayo, lettuce, bacon, tomato, lettuce, mayo, bread. The lettuce acts as a layer of insulation to keep things from getting too soggy. Bacon and tomato absolutely have to be in the middle. I’m also okay with leaving the top layer of lettuce off, if you should choose. But the order should be BTL. This. And don’t skimp on the mayo. I harvested the first tomato of the season yesterday. BLTs are going to be back on the menu soon! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845/20 "2018-05-26T15:24:29Z")
First you lightly toast the bread. Then add Russian dressing to each slice. Add fresh ground black pepper. Then throw away that useless iceberg or romaine and gently place a layer of baby spinach over the dressing. Then add the tomato, lightly salting both sides. Now put the bacon on and close it gently. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blt-sandwich-assembly-order/814845.md?page=2)