hand sandwich

Sandwiches are probably my favourite food; there's an endless variety of fillings, condiments and breads that make the combinations possible for this lunch-time delicacy infinite. Hungry, I rummaged through my fridge and wrangled up some of the usual sandwich-making suspects: spinach, onions, cheese, coldcuts, hey.. is that a hardboiled egg back there?

Making my way towards the cutting board, grasped hands overflowing with fillings, I thought how convenient it would be just to eat all the ingerdients in my hands as-is without actually making a sandwich. Remembering that sandwiches are awesome I quickly came to my senses. This project will show you how to make a hand sandwich! a handwich!

This instructable will show you how to make your own bread dough, then how to make a mold to bake your bread in and shape it into a hand. There are really two things happening in this project

• process 1: making bread dough (step 1 - step 4) - start here
• process 2: making a hand mold (step 5 - step 7) - start here

Enough talk, let's make some freakish fingered food.

Step 1: Bread supplies

Process 1 - bread

This portion will explain how to make a basic bread from scratch. If you already have a bread recipe skip ahead to step 5 on how to make the hand mold.

It's worth mentioning that I have never made bread before this project, after making it I can say with certainty that it was one of the easiest things I have ever baked in the kitchen. You should try it.
Here's the list of supplies required to make simple bread:
 

Yeild: 1 hand

• 3 cups - flour
• 2 teaspoons - yeast
• 2 teaspoons - salt
• 1 cup - warm water (may have to add slightly more water)

You will also need:

• large mixing bowl
• measuring utensils

This recipe will yield one loaf of basic bread, if you're feeling adventurous why not one of these other bread recipes.

Comments

[madmax123]

haven't i herd about the author before?

[pmn9393]

good idea, the shape makes me think of a marijuana leaf, i think i might make some for munchie food

[AnimeEyes19]

thats freakin awesome!!!

[suayres]

Why not do all your cutting with tin snips?

[mikeasaurus]

Tin snips would work, but this sheet pan was very thin and heavy duty scissors worked well enough. Though, they are probably more dull now because of it.

[lindsey123]

Thanks for posting. The kids are going to want them all the time.
Great idea!

[halberdear]

Heres mine. I went with the classic turkey and cheese combo.

[mikeasaurus]

handwich high-five, great looking sammie!

[northernmagnet]

haha hahhahahahaha i can actually give some one a knuckle samitch

[geodez]

Shandwich.

[Azayles]

What a brilliant idea on the hand mold! You could probably weld trips of tin onto a hand shaped tin piece, and use that as a reusable mold :P

[Wasagi]

 Next up-the knuckle sandwich?

[Foaly7]

You know, that's not a bad idea.

[rjze]

maybe you can rename it to HANDWICH... Finger-licking good!

[esker12]

Great idea, I guess the apple does not fall too far from the tree!!!  Seriously a fantastic idea, and I like the "finger food" quote.  Keep up the good work.

[bigmama1079]

very nicely done, i'munna have to make one soon. but maybe something a bit more irreverent? a hand flipping the bird, perhaps?

[kcls]

OMG! It looks like, in the first pic, the finger next to your pinkey (ring finger?) is about to fall off! Quick! Eat it! Awesome 'ible btw.

[AngryRedhead]

This certainly looks large enough to have choked Mama Cass.

Nice sandwich!  I'm also a fan.

 

[hammythehamster]

 Yummy!! We call Ham sandwich, Hand sandwich here in Ireland. Great Instrucable.

[Doctor What]

 Wow!  That pan modification could be applied to so many different shapes!  

[JakeTobak]

You've got a dirty mind... or am I the one with the dirty mind?

[Doctor What]

 No... I was thinking along the lines of fetus shaped bread.

You're the one with the dirty mind.

[Arbitror]

But you're the one with the twisted, canniblistic mind...

[Doctor What]

 It's not sick, it's bread.  And bread is tasty.

[mikeasaurus]

bread is civilization

[Doctor What]

 True that!  (do I sound hip and modern?)

[Arbitror]

I'm all cool with a hand! It's just a fetus, well, that's just wrong...

[Doctor What]

 'parently you haven't seen my collected works.

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[mikeasaurus]

haha thanks cokefloat!
Tthough it took me two days to eat the whole thing and I'm a little sick from all the carbs, somehow I crave another. What does that mean?

[ChrysN]

Clever!

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Tada!

[Jayefuu]

Epic! Deserved to be featured :D