I am all for brushing bread and buns with melted butter and griddling them for fried chicken sandwiches, lobster rolls, burgers, really any place and time toasted bread is needed. Over the years, I wondered why we only used butter. I wondered about using mayonnaise as a griddling medium. Once I started using the very spreadable mayo, I became reluctant to go back to butter. But as I was using the mayonnaise, I wondered why I wasn’t flavoring it.
For our recent pop-up at Inferno Pizzeria and now at Curiosity Doughnuts, we are spreading our buns with a blend of mayonnaise lightly seasoned with mustard for our fried chicken sandwich. The blend adds a bright sharpness to the rich, creamy condiment and enhances the browning of the buns. For our current fried chicken sandwich, the mayonnaise-mustard blend is right. But when the sandwich evolves or we create another, the bread spread is easily tweaked and tailored to our whims.
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