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>>11450268
>What kind of cheese are you supposed to use to make grilled cheese?
It's preference, really. There's certainly nothing wrong with wonder bread, kraft singles (american is most like colby), and margarine, LOL. Getting gourmet, your palate wants better, and you might even pair your cheese to balance your bread choice. I like a crustier bread with some dense crumb, and I like real butter myself, and I'll turn it down low and slow to griddle the bread in a way that gets the crusts nice and well done, before the bread burns.
As far as cheese goes, I pick 2. I like a good meltiest softer cheese as well as something more aged with it. But, it's whatever I have in the cheese drawer in the fridge, really. I like it all. At any time in my fridge, it could be gouda, muenster, ny cheddar, brie, asiago, swiss, even a jalapeno jack. I sometimes buy marbleu from boar's head. I would say gouda is a sure thing. Be messy with your cheese, so that some runs out of the bread and gets toasted and crunchy around the crust.

I don't mind adding ripe tomato with some cracked pepper in there, or some ham or other leftovers. A bit of fig jam or hot pepper or mango chutney is also good.

There's a parm crust technique you can do to up the cheesiness. Coat the bread with butter first, very thinly. Then a thin layer of mayo (yea, it seems gross, so keep it thin), then dredge the mayo with a coating of grated parm. Griddle the sandwich in a good quality nonstick on low, until a cheese crisp forms on each side.

>>8932826
i usually do this with cheddar