A club sandwich lives or dies on its crunch. Toasted bread, cold crisp lettuce, a ripe tomato, and bacon, the salty, crackly layer that makes every bite snap. We don’t cook bacon in our house, so for years my clubs were missing that one thing.
The fix was sitting in my deli drawer. Lay slices of beef salami on a parchment-lined sheet pan, slide it into a 400°F oven ...