Crispy and crunchy on the outside and soft yet chewy on the inside these rolls are perfect for storing your favorite sandwich toppings.
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How to Make Proper Hoagie Rolls at Home
Leah is the Senior Culinary Editor at Serious Eats and previously spent nearly 9 years as a recipe developer and editor at America’s Test Kitchen. She has developed recipes and edited over 20 cookbooks on topics ranging from bread baking to plant-based eating to outdoor grilling and beyond. While there she also developed recipes and features for Cooks Illustrated Magazine Cooks Country Magazine and ATK’s digital platform. Before her life as a recipe developer she cooked in 5-star and Michelin-star restaurants coast to coast including The Herbfarm and Aubergine Restaurant at L’Auberge Carmel; she also cherishes her teenage days flipping burgers on flattops and her early professional life baking and packaging cookies and pies at a wonderful family-run German bakery.
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When making a hoagie sandwich it’s easy to focus on the mix of savory meats cheeses and condiments but for a truly great hoagie the namesake roll is just as important as what’s inside. A hoagie roll supports a hefty amount of meats cheeses condiments and toppings and to do so it must maintain its overall structure while keeping the interior soft and slightly chewy for an enjoyable eating experience. If it’s too mushy or lacking in structure the roll will fall apart or worse yet all the fillings will just slide out when you sink your teeth into it. A well-made hoagie roll should have a tight crumb on the inside that’s enclosed by a paper-thin crust that’s easy to bite through. The outside of a perfect hoagie roll should be so light and crispy that it crumbles onto your plate as you enjoy it—if there’s no messy crumb trail left behind from your hoagie it probably wasn’t a great hoagie roll. Sure you can buy a bag of rolls from your local grocery store but for a truly sublime hoagie experience you need freshly baked rolls.
