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| The Philly Cheese Steak @ The Sandwich Factory |
Certain food types, for the sake of convenience and other privileges tend to lurk in roadside cafes, petti kades and restaurants under different guises. You have cheesecakes which are not cakes and which don't have an ounce of cheese in them; and egg-less brownies which are less brownies and more a shady, disguised, blob of dough trying to join the Baked Goods Elite with a chocolate pass.
Then you have The Philly Cheese Steak. Chopped up barbecue meat cooked in it's own juices, rolled up in melted cheese and cocooned in bread to give you a really good sandwich. Really, really good. An it doesn't pretend to be something it isn't either, which is another good thing.
Where The Philly Cheese Burgher took it's First Tottering Steps
In Philadelphia (that's the Philly part see?).
A Philadelphian couple with the names of Pat and Harry Olivieri were running a hot-dog stand back in the 1930's when they came up with the Idea of selling chopped up steak in bread, instead of the usual hot-dog. The trend caught on and many variations of the Philly Cheese Burgher started appearing in eateries all over america (and later on, in different parts of the world too). The original Philly Cheese (like your Italian pizza) never really lost it's roots and remains native to it's place of origin.
The Perfect Philly Cheese
If you're looking for the perfect Philly Cheese Burgher, here's what you need to keep in mind:
The Steak: You can't obviously know this unless you were watching when your steak was being prepared, but it's good to know. The meat used for the steak needs to be fresh. Not straight out of the fridge fresh, but warm, tender and straight from the market fresh, and it needs to be cooked on a grill using grease. Yes, grease.:) The meat should be grilled but not over cooked and chopped up while still cooking.
The cheese: The best cheese for a Philly Cheese Steak (according to one of philadelphia's most popular steak restaurants; Pat's King of Steaks) is an impossibly thick but delicious cheese sauce branded Cheese Whiz. But it all boils down to personal preference really, and most restaurants use commercially prepared cheeses which are acceptable substitutes. Just remember to use lots of it. :)
And finally, the sandwich itself. In order to stop ruining their clothes, Philadelphian's have invented what is known as the 'Philadelphian Lean', where they lean forward before biting into a Philly Cheese to stop the steak juices from falling on them. One of the characteristics of a good Philly Cheese Burgher is said to be it's drip worthiness - the sandwich needs to drip juices from it's steak filling.
Where can you sample one here? The Sandwhich Factory does a decent philly - Check out our webpage and see how you can have it delivered right to your home or office https://sandwichfactory.fastorder.lk/order
Wanna know how to make your own Philly Cheese Burgher? Check out this video >>
