Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: 1 slice of cheese or 2?

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Normally I put 2 on, but today I'm going with one cause it seems healthier. But will it still be yummy?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

no.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

damn.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Depends on the cheese and thickness. Usual grilled cheese for me is a few small slices and some cream cheese.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

if you're using kraft singles (tm), you'd better use two

― curtie slade (curtie), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I can hardly taste the gooey cheesy goodness!
2 slices, kids. Don't make the same mistake I did.

(tep, talkin bout ordinary Kraft singles)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

two!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

2 slices, definitely :) Or if you want to max out the gooeyness you can do one slice + Cheez Whiz.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I refuse to eat anything that has "whiz" in its name.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

grilled cheeses are better with real cheese. Not Cheez Whiz or that Kraft Singles crap.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Fucking four slices, and different types of cheese too, you cholesterol fearing wimps.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I refuse to eat anything that has "whiz" in its name.

It's better than you'd think! Actually, a little mayo in there makes it gooier (gooeyer... MUY MAS GOOTIFUL, DAMMIT), too (and I'm not crazy about mayonnaise). Both tricks given to me by a mother of young children who would bitch if their sandwiches weren't gooey enough.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

no doubt, hstencil.

RE whiz: maybe if it was Australian, like "whizbangers" or "collywhizsnoggle" I'd consider eating it.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You know what time it is? YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME
OH YEAH

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

also, throw a tomato on your grilled cheese.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Add marmite!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

you're on your own there, Martin.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like tomato that isn't fully cooked, except for very occasionally in salad. I'd try the marmite, though. I usually go for some sliced chiles or a little garlic in my grilled cheese, maybe roasted peppers.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, garlic is good - garlic salt is easy.

Also, don't forget that if you do it in the toaster, you have to turn the toaster on its side!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

that's genius martin! I never thought of turning a toaster on its side! but then again I guess that's why I have a toaster oven. And also grilled cheeses aren't made in toasters, they're fried in a pan with butter.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

don't do just one slice... if you're gonna be healthy have a salad. if you're gonna eat tasty food, eat tasty food!!

― allyson (schmanktenputchka), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Turning a toaster on its side?? Martin just blew all our minds.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheese snob! i'll have you know kraft american cheese has a much calcium as four glasses of milk! and tastes like babies.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep is OTM. the number of slices of cheese is governed by the thickness of the loaf.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I make my cheese toasties under the griller, not in a frypan... and cheese with Vegemite is the bomb! In fact Kraft made a vegemite-flavoured kraft single at one point. Then they stopped. I wonder why.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, your grilled cheese sandwiches sound insane.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

And use thinly cut schinkenbrot for your toast. It enhances the pleasure even more.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

if you put too much cheese on the sandwich it will leak out the sides and burn on the pan. i go with a small amount of cheese. you need to use exactly the right amount of butter too else you will have either dry or soggy bread. you should use sourdough bread and a very sharp cheddar. never american cheese.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

American cheese is a nightmare in yellow.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i'm blind!!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 28 August 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

amateurist is right except real sandwich makers don't care about a bit of cheese leakage. use as much as necessary, fuck leakage - you can always scrape it off before it burns. as an extra i like to add some tomato, some flat leaf parsley, maybe some onions and occasionally ham...

― minna (minna), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i tried using some havarti and onions and mustard to make grilled cheese sandwiches a few weeks ago and the results were inedible. but tomato is a good idea.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

you have to be very careful with any onions, yes, or they overwhelm even the sharpest cheese

― minna (minna), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Fried onion might be nice though. Hmmm.. theres an idea.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Or some thinly sliced mushrooms.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

If memory serves, David Rosengarten devoted an entire episode to grilled cheese sandwiches and they looked fantastically good.

The recipe is included in his new cook book.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 28 August 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin OTM about the marmite

― robster (robster), Thursday, 28 August 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

On the Marmite?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 28 August 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

cheese that's good to fry

(i will get back to this project shortly, i am pitching a book ? on something else sadly ? and need to concentrate)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 August 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

ilx totally controlls my life; I went to the store and got rye and pepper jack last night.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 28 August 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

american cheese is the very worst abomination against real food!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 28 August 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

kraft singles - bleargh!!!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 28 August 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

You do HAVE real cheese in the USA right?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 August 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, it comes from canada!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to eat those processed cheese slices on holiday as a kid, but I never suspected that they're considered genuine adult food. They're just not very nice, surely? (Mind you, Americans make 'grilled' cheese in a frying pan so what do they know ;))

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Red Leicester rocks on Cheese on Toast. It melts nicely, and is a bit oily. Mmmm. Also, creamy Lancashire works well. Add some worcester sauce too. Then ketchup. God I'm hungry...

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

strong canadian/irish/english (in order of preference) cheddar on v thick, home-cut slices of white bread toast, grilled (broiled for americans) till it goes v bubbly accompanied by HP sauce to dip it in - the only way to make cheese on toast.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Seconded. Although I'd allow worcestershire sauce as well.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No no no no. Brown sauce for Cheese and Onion pies. Tomato for cheese on toast. It is written.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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my favorite thing with tomato soup right now is to fry up a couple of sausage links and toss them into the soup while they're red hot, along with the pan drippings. it totally hits the spot.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Blessed Be the Cheese Sandwich Maker

Mon Mar 21,10:43 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - It's no ordinary toasted cheese sandwich.

American food guru Ruth Reichl called it the tastiest morsel she had eaten in the place she said was now the world's food capital.

And the praise she heaped on Bill Oglethorpe's designer sandwich in Gourmet magazine triggered a flood of visitors to his Saturday stall in London's trendy Borough Market.

"I would guess that my sandwich turnover has doubled since the article," Oglethorpe, 42, told Reuters while standing over a hotplate full of sizzling delicacies with a long queue of people waiting.

They are not cheap, but nevertheless they were selling at a rate of close to one a minute.

There is an art to the Oglethorpe sandwich experience. He takes two slices of Poilane sourdough bread, crumbled Montgomery cheddar cheese, matured for 18 months at 12 degrees centigrade, and tops it off with five varieties of onion and garlic.

"I came to London to see my daughter and her fiancee," said Jack Flynn from Maine. "But I came here to try one of these. The article was right. It is to die for."

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Aww yeah - guess what i'm having right now

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Spray-on bacon

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

grilled cheese w/muenster & some aged-ass cheddar = a++

― Jordan, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

gr8est grilled cheese of all times:

TOAST
mustard
slice of cheese
tomato
tomato
slice of cheese
mayo
TOAST

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

ps a smidge of feta sprinkled amongst the tomatos is HEAVEN

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

w
o
w

― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

god so hungry now

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

will make 11ty of these upon arrival @home

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

i want one ;( i need to buy grillable cheese

what kind of cheese?

― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

i think last time i had pieces of white cheddar, but man slices of kraft'll do ya, it's all about the mustard/mayo/tomato/feta tastebud explosion

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

right.

i do the kraft at times. i mean a slice of kraft is like the best snack ever.

― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

Shit, feeling sassy, I go for four.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

i know right? 1 is crazy!!

― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

cu-RAY-zeeeee

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

1 is completely like why even make a sandwich.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 21 February 2008 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

totally.

i'm going to make one now and i'm going to put some of that HOOStard on it.

― Jordan, Thursday, 21 February 2008 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

i don't even fuck with kraft btw, it's got to be real cheese.

― Jordan, Thursday, 21 February 2008 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

yes but a kraft single is like a perfect little bite of tastiness!

― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 February 2008 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

ya, if you like plastic!

― Jordan, Thursday, 21 February 2008 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

Wheat
Grilled Onion
Cheese - Kraft Swiss Singles
THIN slice or two of tomato
Cheese
Wheat

Gotta use real butter

And you better be high.

― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 21 February 2008 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

A proper grilled cheese does not have the cheese measured in slices but in dollars.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 21 February 2008 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

i had some delicious tomato rice soup today but it seemed naked without a grilled cheese sandwich to go with it.

― get bent, Thursday, 21 February 2008 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

ok dudes i just made two of these and am enjoying mine with a freestyle wheat beer A++ SO awes

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

btw "freestyle" is a brand of wheat beer not like brewed in my sink or anything

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

Whew. I was kinda worried about that, actually.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

2 cans PBR
3 slices Nature's Own Whole Wheat Bread (or whatever brand you prefer)

Blend til smooth.
Enjoy!

― Kerm, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

:-O

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

It's a rule in my life that all grilled cheese must involve a roasted pepper of some sort unless accompanied by tomato soup and then it's a case by case basis

― A B C, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

Kerm, that's gotta be the worst concoction to meet a blender since I thought to toss a dozen poppy pods in one.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

2 slices of bread
1 slice of cheese
spread some pesto and sprinkle some basil
and blammo, you have the same great tasting grilled cheese sandwich I paid $2 for from a hippie at a phish concert

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

maybe if you added a slice of orange? xpost

― Kerm, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

How much cheese could possibly be too much?

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

no cheese could be too much cheese

you get my meaning

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

More cheese than bread sounds a little ridiculous.

― Kerm, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

You have to admit it still sounds good, though.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 21 February 2008 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

More cheese than bread sounds a little ridiculous.

By volume yes by weight no fuckin' way.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 21 February 2008 05:02 (eighteen years ago)

of course, of course

― Kerm, Thursday, 21 February 2008 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

spencer otm!! grilled cheese and tomato soup is my favorite soup/sandwich combo of all time!
-- pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:23

(served with a glass of milk, naturally)
-- pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:23

euurgh, i can't think of anything more claggy. i think i'd need an enema on my throat after all that.

― or something, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

If you put some ham in it, is that still grilled cheese? Or is it ham & cheese, different thing? I like to make the ham turn brown in a pan first, then make my sandwich. Here's how:

1st some nice cheese. Cheddar, primarily, tho gouda or gruyere can mix with. Then thinly sliced tomato slices. They have to be very thin, or hot won't go through. Sweetish wheat bread is a very good option. Sweet agrees w/ the ham.

1) Let pan get good and hot. Medium-low, medium, at most.
2) Melt in some butter. Doesn't take much.
3) Add bread w/ cheese and tomato on it. Tomato goes on top, bread on bottom with cheese snug between. Tomato blanket should be thin but thorough, w/ no gaps!
4) After a while, bottom bread will turn browner and smell nice. When this happens, put other bread on top, lift sandwich from pan, and add a bit more butter.
5) Butter melts = flip sandwich and replace (uncooked bread goes down).
6) After some more while, lift off top bread. Tomato layer should make this doable, even after cheese melts. At this point, you should slip in some brown meat. It is tricky, though. Do not fuck it up!
7) Probably by now it will be done again. Eat it.

― contenderizer, Thursday, 21 February 2008 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

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― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 21 February 2008 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

omnomnomnomnomnom

― never acid again, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

ok dudes i just made two of these and am enjoying mine with a freestyle wheat beer A++ SO awes

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:38 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

btw "freestyle" is a brand of wheat beer not like brewed in my sink or anything

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:55 AM

i spent TWENTY MINUTES OF MY LIFE thinking about this

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

ten years pass...

1. grind up half a link of andouille sausage (casing removed) and some cubes of cheddar in a food processor
2. spread the resulting paste (at this point it should resemble potted meat or mechanically separated chicken) between two slices of wheat bread
3. grill
5. this is actually really good!

― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:14 (seven years ago)

step #4 is presumably "eat it"

also lol @ HOOS's last post

― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:15 (seven years ago)

a food processor

― j., Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:40 (seven years ago)

Not sure that's how ilxorz make resultant pastes.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 7 July 2018 01:44 (seven years ago)

I tried dicing it but it wasn't as satisfying

― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:05 (seven years ago)

The OP implies the use pre-sliced cheese. This is disgustingly savage and I refuse to countenance it.

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 7 July 2018 04:20 (seven years ago)

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