Roadside Pit · Charred Beef Sandwich
Baltimore Pit Beef Sandwich
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Unlike Southern barbecue, Baltimore pit beef is cooked hot and fast over direct charcoal flame rather than slow-smoked, giving it a deeply charred crust and rare pink center.
A top round of beef is seared over an open charcoal pit until the outside is nearly black, then shaved paper-thin and piled onto a kaiser roll with raw onion and horseradish sauce. Roadside pit stands along Baltimore's highways are the classic source.
Why it's made this way: Pit beef stands cluster along Pulaski Highway on Baltimore's east side, and the sandwich is still rarely found far from the city and its suburbs.
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