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Following from the OCD thread where people clearly did not understand the rules of sauce I thought I'd better write them down. I've broken it into two areas - foods that need sauce, and uses of common sauces:-
[b]Food needing sauce[/b]
Bacon Sandwich - Red sauce only
Fish Finger Sandwich - Brown sauce only
Chip Butty - Red or Brown sauce are acceptable
Cheese Sandwich - Branston or spicy mango
Ham Sandwich - English mustard, Dijon mustard or Grain mustard
Chicken Sandwich - Spicy tomato or Mango
Beef Sandwich - English mustard OR Horseradish
Smoked Salmon Sandwich - Horse radish
[b]Common Sauces[/b]
Red sauce - to be used with most fried food except fish
Brown sauce - to be used with baked potatoes, chips, fish fingers, sausages (but not in a sarnie)
Branston - for cheese sandwiches or in a sandwich on it's own
Mango (spicy or otherwise) - cold chicken sandwich or in a sandwich on it's own
Mayo - there is no place for mayo in any kitchen although it is useful for making garlic mayo to have with tapas. It should never be put into sandwiches
Salad cream (northerners Mayo) - more acceptable than mayo. Salad cream and lettuce sandwiches are good
Mustards - use with processed meats (sausages, pies etc) or roast beef
Vinegar - chips only - it has NO other uses
[b]Things that must NEVER be done[/b]
Mixing red and brown sauce - it's just wrong and shows you are incapable of decision
In fact mixing sauces of any kind is not to be recommended.
[b]Things that may be experimented with[/b]
Sauces make good sandwich fillers in their own right.
I hope this explains things. I do appreciate that they say taste is personal, but it isn't if it's wrong - and deviation from the above is wrong.
Does HP Fruity come under brown sauce?
Bacon Sandwich - Red sauce only
FAIL
agree - bacon sarnie = brown sauce.
I'm out.
no no no, bacon butties need mayo & brown sauce
am liking heinz chillie ketchup on stuff generally
HP Fruity is an offspring of Brown.
BACON SANDWICH = RED SAUCE ONLY!!!!!
Also, red sauce is generally just wrong anyway.
Things that must NEVER be done
Mixing red and brown sauce - it's just wrong and shows you are incapable of decisionIn fact mixing sauces of any kind is not to be recommended.
wrong again, how can you control the mixing of sauce on a hotday, got to have red and mustard
MAYO! On a bacon sandwich!
That is grim!
Mayo. It should never be put into sandwiches
What??? Why?
And you're wrong.
Brown sauce on Fishfinger sandwiches?! Dear God man
Bacon Sandwich - Red & Brown sauce at the same time.
Unless - it's really decent smoked bacon then just butter.
Red sauce - to be used with most fried food except fish
Brown sauce instead of red on fish and chips ??????????
You are clearly in no position to be determining any kind of gourmet bar setting.
Away with you to KFC
BACON SANDWICH = BROWN SAUCE (AND ONLY HP)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😈
I have my own rule when it comes to sauces..Spicy sauce unless hungover in which case switch to the hp fruity.
Whippersnapper - Mayo should not be put into sarnies. You may, if you're posh, dip your chips in it. You may use it in a salad.
Other than that it's the milk of satan (and I'm not talking breast!)
viva le fishfinger/red sauce resistance!
Trailmonkey - Fish and chips has vinegar only. If you need to dip your chips then that's what mushy peas are for!
AND... tomato sauce on the side for a cheese toastie, for dipping.
Fish - RED!
Bacon / sausage - BROWN!
Do not deviate from the above 😆
Other than that it's the milk of satan (and I'm not talking breast!)
would that make a difference? 😉
Hellman's full fat mayo is my staple diet.
Brown Sauce on Fish & chips and bacon sarnies?!! Wrong wrong wrong!
It would be like putting Sarah Palin in a Mensa meeting.
FC - dipping red sauce for cheese on toast is fine.
Fish Fingers should ONLY ever be eaten with brown. The OH was trying to suggest different last night - apparently red and brown are what she prefers.
It's wrong!
Have to say, I'm with the bacon sandwich/brown sauce backlash. As for dipping your chips in mushy peas, don't you find they make a mess of the curry sauce that you should be using? Besides, if the chicp are next to kabab meat, then it's garlic mayo all the way.
Look - the Fish n chips argument is coming up too much.
Fish n Chips should be covered in Malt Vinegar and salt. Mushy peas (which should also be vinegared) provide moisture.
The ONLY other accompaniements are a cup of tea and buttered white bread.
Here endeth the Fish n Chip discussion.
Oh, dear lord...now I'm going to have to have one of MrFC's cheese toastie specials...and he's already made me one of his special omelettes for breakie.
I shall blame Dr****!!
8)
Fish fingers are best with tartar sauce, or if non to hand, mayo.
Don't see Worcester Sauce on your list either, for use with anything 😉
add red sauce to cheese sarnies - and not toasted ones either.
Get that brown away from fish fingers dude - step away with the brown sauce.
Hmm i'm forming a breakaway sauce group where it's red on bacon, brown on sausage, red on fishfingers, red on fish and chips and......Red and French's mustard mixed on burgers!
Who's with me?!
You missed a brown sauce usage - baked beans / canned spaghetti.
there is no place for mayo in any kitchen
Amen, brother. It crops up a lot on veggieburgers for some unfathonable reason, I think someone somewhere thought "there's no meat in this so it must be a salad."
Speaking of which, how long have Burger King been putting the devil's semen on their damn beanburgers? I got caught out by that the other day, I was expecting a nice spicy tomato sauce and it turned up slathered in pungent white gloop. Unimpressed.
TARTAR - it's kitten sick.
Worcester is for cooking with - it is not a table sauce.
Cougar - GOOD CALL. I'd forgotten - Brown sauce on baked beans is fabulous.
sarnie:
bacon - red
sossidge - red
fried egg - red
chip - red
ed. (FISH FINGERS - RED. BLEEDIN' RED, OKAY ?!!)
cold meats, cheese - neither sauce; chutney/pickle/relish/mustard as you see fit
brown sauce - cheering up insipid shepherds' pie (etc) ONLY
Brown is Satan's poo. In my opinion.
Worcestershire sauce on baked beans, on cheese on toast, on anything with minced beef = Table Sauce
The thing is with chips...it depends which kind.
Good chippy chips...just salt and vinegar, in white bread and butter.
But oven chips? Has to be salt, vinegar, HP sauce, tomato sauce, and proper mayonnaise. I likes me variety for dippin' me oven chips! 😳
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Maggi on chip shop sausage and chips.
Worcester sauce on cheese on toast melted.
I'm in Houns.
The OP is clearly a buffoon of the first water.
Red sauce if the food involves processed cheese, e.g.
- over chips and cheese with curry sauce. Yum.
- with any pizza.
- on top of a macaroni cheese.
Why yes, I am from Glasgow, how did you know?
+1 for brown sauce and beans.
Am a tad worried about Mr FC's
at breakfast timespecial omelettes
Im with Houns, though some times if im feel adventurous ill swap the red or brown sauce for sweet chilli, its amazing! (not fish and chips though)
Bacon sandwiches require HP Sauce. Red is only acceptable if HP is not available. I assume that HP is what you are referring to here as "brown sauce" - I, like all right-thinking people, refuse to recognise the existence of any other type of "brown sauce".
You're only adding Worcester Sauce becuase the food has no flavour - it needs cooking in. Worcester is NOT a table sauce - it lives in the cupboard with my spices - i.e. for COOKING with.
And while we're at it - ALL sauces except vinegar live in the fridge.
Worcester doesn't (and isn't vinegar) so isn't a sauce. QED!
But oven chips? Has to be salt, vinegar, HP sauce, tomato sauce, and proper mayonnaise.
Presumably to hide the fact that they taste like crap. Get yourself a chip pan and a potato peeler, woman.
(note, I am not responsible for any house fires as a result of this advice)
Bacon sammich needs mustard.