How to prepare "Pan con Tomate"

http://www.winepleasures.com Over the years Wine Pleasures has been providing wine tasting tours in Spain. A typical catalan apertiser is pan con tomate and we always teach our customers how to prepare this simple but tasty aperativo. Strange as it may seem the locals are not so expert almost always putting the tomate on before the olive oil.

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[WinePleasures]

@elvikingo Todo lo contrario! A ver. Lo de poner el aceite primero y el tomate segundo tiene su lógico pero el fuente de hacerlo así viene avalado por catalanes!!. Como nosotros no tenemos esquemas mentales sobre como se hace el pan con tomate, hemos probado las dos maneras y clarmente el de poner el tomate segundo sale mucho más sabroso - Y la mesa y los manos se libran de aceite de oliva. Prueba!

[WinePleasures]

@alexsakon Well it appears many of them do but then there are those that don't and that's why we made the video. Try both ways and see which works best for you. We'll pass on the idiot comment. - it is infact our most viewed video so it is a controveral topic.

[WinePleasures]

@tartala Nice point! For pan con tomate there are right tomatoes and wrong ones. There is a particular variety that oozes juice as opposed to a supermarket one which has no juice at all.

We've since made some subsequent videos on the topic with restaurant chefs and the results are interesting. We'll get them published when we have a moment.

Thank you for your comment!

[WinePleasures]

Don't have a recipe for the bread but for Pan Con Tomate it's important to have what is locally called Pan Payès (peasants bread). Found extensively around Spain.

[WinePleasures]

Well we're not French and we've been in Catalunya more than 15 years so we've tried plenty of pan con tomate. So the way we show you in the video is actually from the "horses mouth" ie the info and method was shown to us by a catalán authority on the subject and if you try it both ways you can see clearly which one gives the better taste as well as of course avoiding getting olive oil all over your hands.

[WinePleasures]

Well we are preaching what we have been taught (by catalans). Olive oil then the tomato. The tomato seals in the olive oil and prevents it from running all over your hands while eating and hence losing taste.Try it both ways and you'll see the sense.

[Dreadlord67]

@Kdnce Thanks for giving me some things to think about, though. You posed some good questions:)

[Kdnce]

@Dreadlord67 Hahaha ok fair enough you made a good point!

[Dreadlord67]

@Kdnce Sure it's passable, but the fork, knife and spoon wouldn't have been invented had hand eating just been perfect, right? I think what I was more trying to get at (but failed to do) is that you don't have to worry about silly things like "getting the olive oil on your hands" (OH MY LORD WHAT A NIGHTMARE, RIGHT?!???!?) when you can eat it with a fork and knife?

[Kdnce]

@Dreadlord67 I agree that he can't tell you how to make your own dish for sure, but I disagree that eating with your hands is as bad as you make it out to be. We evolved eating with our hands and it has gotten us this far, right?

[Dreadlord67]

@Kdnce Water is not going to clean your hands properly. And did you know that most soaps don't kill any germs on your hands, but only cover them? D some research man. The point is, the man who ISN'T catalan shoudln't be telling us how to make OUR own dishes. Just because it seems like it's in a silly orer doesn't mean it's wrong. It's tradition.

[Kdnce]

@Dreadlord67 "Disgusting Hands" - ??? First why are they disgusting in the first place. Second eating with your hands is no where near disgusting unless they are covered in shit. Third there is this stuff called water that you can use to turn those disgusting hands into perfectly clean hands. Fourth you sound like you are mysophobic.

[Kdnce]

I've had Pan Con Tomate in Barcelona and I hesitantly disagree with olive oil after garlic. Wouldn't that make it more difficult for the bread to absorb the tomato? Once you add the oil to the bread the bread will have a resistance to taking on any other water based ingredients (think how scotch guard works on material - makes them water resistant). On the other hand if you add the tomato after the garlic it would seal everything in. I'll try both ways and just taste to see ,,,

[Dreadlord67]

HOW ABOUT YOU TELL US HOW YOU DO IT, INSTEAD OF SAYING WE'RE DOING IT WRONG. You can definitely do it however you wish, but don't say that our way, the ORIGINAL WAY, the way it is supposed to be created, is wrong. Besides, any old fashioned traditional catalan wouldn't pick it up with their disgusting hands. So the spillage of olive oil is not of importance. Don't tell us how to make our own dishes, please.

[siddharthbiswas]

first of all they are using the wrong kind of bread. trying to teach catalans how to cook...is he mad?