Whatever: The Open Lines Thread

[PB]

Too much uneven heat, and need a weight to squish it. You need even top and bottom heat without flipping and a weight to compress, those old waffle irons were perfect you could make four sandwiches in about 2sf of space whereas WAN is firing up a small patio when he wants a midnight snack IN THIS ECONOMY

I'm having one right now!

[K_Dubb]

I'm having one right now!

What kind of cheese 😭 I have no bread and the only cheese I have is Danish blue

[PB]

What kind of cheese 😭 I have no bread and the only cheese I have is Danish blue

Jarlsberg on sourdough

[K_Dubb]

Jarlsberg on sourdough

🇳🇴 great choice

[Bart Ell]

Huh.  Why come such a thing exists?

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Mr. Senda needs something for lunch after his frozen scrambled egg breakfast.

[JUAN]

Properly seasoned cast iron frying pan and an old cast iron clothes iron.

[PB]

Properly seasoned cast iron frying pan and an old cast iron clothes iron.

I'm getting the impression I've never had a proper grilled cheese.  Gridles, smashing them down... I've never ordered one in a restaurant, and have only had the lousy ones in school cafeterias and made them at home on an oven rack with melted cheese (which are pretty good anyway).

[K_Dubb]

I'm getting the impression I've never had a proper grilled cheese.  Gridles, smashing them down... I've never ordered one in a restaurant, and have only had the lousy ones in school cafeterias and made them at home on an oven rack with melted cheese (which are pretty good anyway).

Proper grilled cheese you use sandwich bread buttered on the outside with the cheese in the inside and the bread comes out a combination of fried and toasted on both sides unlike oven-baked where the cheese tends to separate and make the top surface soggy. A frying pan with a weight flipped halfway through is the closest you can get without special equipment (griddle or panini grill or waffle iron with reversible plates)

[KSM]

Proper grilled cheese you use sandwich bread buttered on the outside with the cheese in the inside and the bread comes out a combination of fried and toasted on both sides unlike oven-baked where the cheese tends to separate and make the top surface soggy. A frying pan with a weight flipped halfway through is the closest you can get without special equipment (griddle or panini grill or waffle iron with reversible plates)

No you fucking moron both sides of each piece of bread must be buttered inside and out!!! Butter the insides first of course, and you then add the classic American cheddar slices to the middle. The option of ham is there as well but it has to be packaged pre sliced!  You can then proceed with buttering the outside by placing the sammich in a heated pan that already contains the generous amount of melted butter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Be careful not burn or brown the butter so I suggest it is best that you know your heating source, it has sweet spots. Flip with a SPATULA and not a risky toss!

Seriously this needs its own thread.

[Smokin Hot Bob]

What in God's green Earth are they feeding these poor gobs?

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[PB]

Proper grilled cheese you use sandwich bread buttered on the outside with the cheese in the inside and the bread comes out a combination of fried and toasted on both sides unlike oven-baked where the cheese tends to separate and make the top surface soggy. A frying pan with a weight flipped halfway through is the closest you can get without special equipment (griddle or panini grill or waffle iron with reversible plates)

So we're turning a cheese sandwich into a high calorie extravaganza.  I'd better have two!

No cheddar though.  That would be like eating a tub of ice cream, except it's made from goat milk.

[Walks_At_Night]

When Gnomes attack..............

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[K_Dubb]

No you fucking moron both sides of each piece of bread must be buttered inside and out!!! Butter the insides first of course, and you then add the classic American cheddar slices to the middle. The option of ham is there as well but it has to be packaged pre sliced!  You can then proceed with buttering the outside by placing the sammich in a heated pan that already contains the generous amount of melted butter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Be careful not burn or brown the butter so I suggest it is best that you know your heating source, it has sweet spots. Flip with a SPATULA and not a risky toss!

Seriously this needs its own thread.

I disagree, I never use classic American cheese. If you have carefully selected a nice cheese or two to melt, you don’t want butter in there to dilute the melt with butter flavor, you just want to taste the cheese. No co-mingling of the fats! And ham just makes it a ham sandwich, you can’t call it a grilled cheese when there is ham, grilled cheese is its own special thing.

[KSM]

I disagree, I never use classic American cheese. If you have carefully selected a nice cheese or two to melt, you don’t want butter in there to dilute the melt with butter flavor, you just want to taste the cheese. No co-mingling of the fats! And ham just makes it a ham sandwich, you can’t call it a grilled cheese when there is ham, grilled cheese is its own special thing.

I must say, you sound like my mom.

I like the way I do it and if I want to add ham it becomes a grilled ham n' cheese also a classic. @PB has a love affair with fried rice, are you going to deny him a grilled cheese n' fried rich sandwich?