Taking Sides: Sourdough vs. Rye

Rye

preferably old school Jewish Rye but marbled is okay too I guess

rye. but buckwheat -vs- rye would have been tough for me.

i get sick of sourdough breads. i feel like the local co-op market here only makes sourdough everything. so i avoid it. never get sick of rye. rye toast! the best. russian black bread with peanut butter....is a fave of mine. mmmm. and don't even get me started on liverwurst on rye with onions and spicy mustard and lettuce and swiss. oy!

counterpoint: sourdough

rye is nice but its weighty austerity fetters the tongue to the drudgery of nutrition, whereas upon the gossamer wings of sourdough a sandwich may soar

in other words, yall masochistic

I love both of these, but in practice I eat more sourdough so I will vote accordingly. Rye is the best for PBJs tho.

I came onto this thread 100% convinced of the supremacy of sourdough and then I read it and now I am terrified that I have aligned myself with evil

graaarh

OTOH I fucking love sourdough, it is by far my favorite bread and I hope one day to be buried in a gigantic sourdough baguette

the DJP: duck, jalapenos and peach

Sourdough

Sourdough is a dough containing a Lactobacillus culture in symbiotic combination with yeasts. It is one of the principal means of biological leavening in bread baking, the others using cultivated forms of yeast. It is important in baking rye-based breads, where yeast does not produce comparable results.

Smørrebrød

Rye has a long and deep tradition that sourdough lacks. Consequently, it has more variants. And more flavor.

it also makes a difference where you stand on seeds.

Rugbrød, big helping of steak tartare, raw egg yolk, and a bunch of onion + caper. Best food there is. Doesn't work on sourdough at all.

the pleasing taste of pastrami on rye outweighs any good sourdough sandwich i've ever had

djp otm

Rye for Reubens but for everything else it's sourdough

sourdough, though rye is certainly more appropriate for a bunch of different sandwich types

I don't mind rye but I fuckin hate caraway seeds and those pointy little bits of evil lurk everywhere so sourdough 4evs

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Rye rye rye

I just don't think anyone can like rye as much as I like sourdough. Not trying to convert anyone who prefers rye, or who has bread ambivalence. Just proclaiming my deep love for the iconic bread of my native region.

otoh this rules:

https://youtu.be/eP_rby0mvvY

sourdough makes for good pizza crust actually

but rye, toasted, is far superior for the main function of bread, which is sandwiches

I'm sorry but the main function of bread is toast.

the main function of bread is TO BE STUFFED DIRECTLY INTO MY MOUTH RIGHT NOW

The sandwich is just a convenient format for combining bread and a salad. I prefer to eat my bread and my salad separately.

I'll say it again, but the main function of bread is smørrebrød

what did u call me

had to google that, but I agree, it is better than a sandwich.

http://royalgreenland.dk/Files/Billeder/rgdk/recipes/Roedspatte_laks_varm_kold_rejer_smorredroed.jpg

Rye for the win

sourdough is kinda bullshit tbh. enthusiastic celebration of this dismal hardship food is one of the worst traits of the Bay Area and that's saying something.

would be better on sourdough tbh

Sourdough in general, forever and ever amen. But rye makes excellent crackers and flatbreads.

enthusiastic celebration of this dismal hardship food is one of the worst traits of the Bay Area and that's saying something.

Noted but not approved.

Build the rogerwall

dammit, now I've got an Oasis song stuck in my head

sourdoasis

Most of the rye that comes with sandwiches in NY delis is of pretty low quality, usually mixed with a lot of white flour as is obvious from its color. I've heard that Langer's Deli in LA has more authentic rye than, say, Katz's in NY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfEYvem3IM

Rye because Triscuit

wait Triscuits are on the rye side of the world

I may have made a terrible mistake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yfFWvoygY

I like both, but I think I have had more enjoyable eating experiences with not just sandwiches, but also sourdough tortilla wraps, chapatis, naan breads - that they edge it. But melted cheese and ham rye-bread pan grilled sarnies are also wonderful. I feel like in a post-apocalyptic type of world rye would piss it cos it probs keeps you alive longer.

I wanna point out for those on the fence (that includes me, these breads are both so good that you really can't go wrong) that sourdough makes fucking incredible french toast. I have not attempted rye french toast, but I'd be skeptical.

Rye is a rockist bread.

If pumpernickel is a subset of rye bread then rye>sourdough.

The people have spoken.

I live in Hackney so I imagine I'm legally obliged to pick sourdough.

if rye is rockist, btw, then russian black bread is metal that takes itself way too seriously

san francisco sourdough is maybe my favourite thing to eat in the world

whom amongst us would not eat avocado toast on sourdough with feta cheese for $11 at the local cafe?

-feta +poached egg

ha yeah i hesitated between poached egg and feta when i posted

the pleasing taste of pastrami on rye outweighs any good sourdough sandwich i've ever had

if I were a meat-eater rye would be walking this SO easily owing to the heavy weight placed on the scale here, pastrami on rye is one of the soundest arguments for the carnivore life that I know of. does sourdough have any single sandwich incarnation as iconic as pastrami on rye?

Pastrami on Sourdough?

The best of all sandwiches is the tuna melt and for that rye>sourdough.

Rye wins this in p much every respect. Tuna melt rye is otm, just as pastrami on rye, salted or pickled herring on rye etc

Sourdough, but it's close. The seeds are biggest reason to vote against rye. However, I'd vote for dark rye over these two easily.

avocado toast is a sandwich and one of the soundest arguments for leaving the carnivore life (as long as you also add tomato, zaatar, and coarse sea salt)

i ate liverwurst sandwiches two days in a row for lunch thanks to this thread. or braunschweiger to be precise. plus swiss+baby lettuce+hot pepper rings+shallots+kosciusko mustard+arnold jewish rye with seeds.

nobody in my house shares my love for this meal. they didn't grow up with a mother from long island.

oh and boars head kosher dills on the side. just missing a cel-ray soda and a bag of chips for perfection.

damn dude scott s keeping it as real as it GETS.

arnold ftw

i never buy/taste sourdough, so unsure whether i should vote

i do buy the Arnold

Here's the thing, the most annoying part of sourdough avocado toast is sawing through the sourdough.

But that's part of the appeal

Had a patty melt tonight in honor of this poll.

rye tastes awful to me but maybe i just haven't had the right rye

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Funny this came up this week. I've been hitting Marks&Spencers at the time they make major reductions recently. One day this week I scored 1/2 price loaves of each.
Don't think I have a favourite both were pretty great. Haven't tried either in a while before that.
Used to get a 60% rye regularly about 15 years back but I think the baker's long gone.
Liked the sourdough from the Bagel shop in Finsbury park too.

The only bread I have eaten in the last 6 months was the slightly rye tinged sourdough at 108 in Copenhagen which was phenomenal. My local bakers does a pretty awesome 100% rye sourdough which makes the absolute best toast.

you fucking asked for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX3oMbPQMzU

I love the crust on sourdough and the elastic crumb. And the sourness, of course. Rye has its place for sure but I confidently cast my vote for sourdough.

You know what would probably be really good is a croque madame on toasted dark rye

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Disgusting savages

otm

Ugh. This is like november 8 all over again.

you're living in a bubble

instead of casting blame why don't you try to understand the sourdough eater?

Fetchboy otm

No interest whatsoever in skimming a hundred longform fieldwork pieces on the people who are wrong

gallup sandwich poll

THANKS, TRUMP!

The blame clearly lands at the feet of marble rye for pandering to the sourdough lovers. Sourdough was always going to get at least 45 votes. If we had been more vocal about the anti-flatulence benefits of caraway seeds instead of trying to pivot to the center to please people who don't floss more ilxors would've come out to vote for rye.

cant campIgn against bad taste

I think sourdough is a tasty type of bread

rye is good too! the bread debate has been taken over by extremists on both sides

Weak coalition vs monolith. Should have known.

h4x

I tried to give fair consideration to both sides throughout the campaign, but these results have galvanized me as a rye partisan.

I am going to eat a rye-on-sourdough sandwich in honor of this thread.

I appreciate your clarity re: who's the top.

Yeah, the rye gets the roof of the mouth. Turn all senses away.

The concerns of sourdough voters are real and poorly understood by elites

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8RlCE_UwAArlUB.jpg

rye is so good

there better be caraway seeds in that tho

There should have been a poll option for pumpernickel.