The Perfect BLT: The 1 Game-Changing Technique You Need to Know

The Perfect BLT: The 1 Game-Changing Technique You Need to Know
The BLT is a masterpiece of a sandwich, and a masterclass in all-around sandwich-ology, in part because pulling off a perfect one is not easy. DronG/shutterstock
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A properly put together BLT is the Bruce Lee of sandwiches. It’s lean and light and full of fight.

Just a few strips of bacon is all the meat there is on the bones of this black-belt combination of tomato, onion, mayo, bacon, bread, and lettuce. By using finesse and precision instead of brute force, that elegant BLT can whoop a reuben, a turkey Swiss, a roast beef, you name it—maybe all at once.

Ari LeVaux
Ari LeVaux
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Ari LeVaux writes about food in Missoula, Mont.
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