Best Panini Maker

what is panini?

my friends are talking about making them for lunch wednesday and i dont know what it is. they said somting about a panini maker and somthing about chicken and tomatoes. give me lots of info becasue i dont want to sound like an idiot.....[:D]

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1. It is an italian sandwich. Generally the bread is roasted. I think they sell panini makers in which you put bread and filling (like tomatoes and chicken, etc. and it cooks them up.
2. It's a flattened toasted sandwich. Delcious unless it comes from a school cantine. Bon apetite
3. A panino (IPA: [pʰəˈninəʊ]) is a sandwich made from a small loaf of bread, typically a ciabatta. The loaf is often cut horizontally and filled with salami, ham, meat, cheese or other food, and sometimes served hot. The word is Italian (literally meaning small piece of bread), with plural panini, although "panini" is often used, incorrectly, in a singular sense by some speakers of other languages that borrow the word, including English and French. "Panini" is also a brand of grill made specifically for grilling these sandwiches. In Italian, panino refers variously to a bread roll and a sandwich, and a paninoteca is a sandwich bar. In Central Italy, there is a popular version of panino which is filled with porchetta, i.e. slices of roasted pork.
4. They are yummy sandwiches. Usually made with sour dough bread, cheese and meat and veggies, then toasted. Lean Cuisine makes an awesome spinich chicken one in the freezer section if you want to check them out before your friends make them.
5. It's a groovy Italian sandwich. Chicken Ceaser are my favorites, just add a little crawfish, and you got yourself a great snack.
6. its a sandwich
7. italian sandwich cooked in a press - yummy
8. A panini is basically a grilled sandwich. You can pretty much put anything in them. A panini maker is just an apparatus that grilles the bread an melts everything together. They are very yummy.
9. A panini is a sandwich made from a small loaf of bread, typically a ciabatta. The loaf is often cut horizontally and filled with salami, ham, meat, cheese or other food, and sometimes served hot. The word is Italian (literally meaning small piece of bread), with plural panini, although "panini" is often used, incorrectly, in a singular sense by some speakers of other languages that borrow the word, including English and French. "Panini" is also a brand of grill made specifically for grilling these sandwiches. In Italian, panino refers variously to a bread roll and a sandwich, and a paninoteca is a sandwich bar. In Central Italy, there is a popular version of panino which is filled with porchetta, i.e. slices of roasted pork.
10. Panino is a great sandwich. While not necessarily grilled, the popular version, catching on around the world is a grilled sandwich, stuffed with anything you can fit between two pieces of bread. To make a great panino sandwich you don’t need an expensive panini press, you just need a gas grill.
11. its just like bread with whatever you want to put in it....most people put tomatoes and cheese and some kind of meat and vegetable...theyre really good. they put it in a panini maker so the stuff inside cooks and the bread gets really toasty.
12. it is a electric appliance similar to a George Forman Grill or a waffle maker that both the top and bottom heat up and cook a sandwich or what ever you put in it at the same time. Most paninis I have seen have grill type lines on them so it looks like it came off the BBQ grill. It is just a fancy new name or fad but they have been around for along time.
13. "Panini" is just a word for a sandwhich. I'm going to guess your friends were going to grill a sandwhich with chicken and tomatoes in it. The panini maker grills the sandwhich.
14. it's basically a toasted sandwich, italian style, made with ciabatta type bread, They can have all sorts of fillings, chicken and tomatoes as you say, mozarella , grilled vegetables , bacon etc
15. Panini are italian sandwiches. Generally ciabatta or foccicia bread is used. You simmply grill then in a panini press however I have a foreman grill and that will fo the same thing. You fill them however you would like really. Lunch meats, cheeses, veggies. Good Luck.
16. a panini is basically a toasted baguette thing with filling
17. it's a delicious Italian sandwich
18. It's a grilled sandwich. You make your normal sandwich, but the panini press is like a Foreman grill. So it flattens the sandwich, heats it up, and leaves grill marks on the outside of the bread. They're very very good.