/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11372572]

Hey /ck/, I've got a question for you:

When does a grilled cheese stop being a grilled cheese?

To a purist, a grilled cheese is strictly bread, butter, and cheese. But restaurants love to try to jazz it up and add tomato slices or bacon or whatever else. Are those still grilled cheeses with toppings? If you add cold cuts, is it a hot ham and cheese, or a grilled cheese with ham? Obviously a hamburger patty would encroach into patty melt territory, but what if it was just loose ground beef? Most importantly, does mayonnaise belong on a grilled cheese at all?

[Anonymous No.11372580]

>>11372572
Mayo is fine it fries up better than butter. You may add 1 (ONE) vegetable such as tomatoes, fried onions, or mushrooms and it remains a grilled cheese. You may add bacon bits, but not full strips, and it remains a grilled cheese. Any meat otherwise and it is a grilled that and cheese sandwich.

[Anonymous No.11372591]

>>11372572
Tuna is a viable ingredient that doesn’t affect the integrity of a grilled cheese.

[Anonymous No.11372593]

>>11372591
That is a tuna melt you maniac.

[Anonymous No.11372594]

>>11372591
You are literally describing a tuna melt.

[Anonymous No.11372600]

>>11372593
>>11372594
You’re a pair of fucking melts.

[Anonymous No.11372603]

If you’re in Europe or somewhere with really good quality cheese I recommend a thin layer of marmite.

[Anonymous No.11372607]

>>11372603
>you know what would totally ruin this 5 dollars worth of cheese? Bitter yeast.

[Anonymous No.11372609]

>>11372607
>5 Dollars worth of cheese
>dollars
He said good quality.

[Anonymous No.11372610]

>>11372607
Marmite isn’t bitter.

[Anonymous No.11372612]

please dont bring reddit here

[Anonymous No.11372614]

>>11372610
It's savoury as fuck.
I put a spoonful in my ragu.

[Anonymous No.11372618]

>>11372572
bread and cheese
maybe a condiment is acceptable, like hot sauce, or you can dip it in something, i don't know, blue cheese dressing? but cheese is a tertiary ingredient, if it's anything else, like tomato, or onion, or meat, it's a "Grilled _______ sandwich with cheese" and there is no discussion about this. Words mean things, that is how you can convey what you want to express, to say a grilled hamburger is a "grilled cheese, but i put a hamburger patty on it" is just retarded and I guarantee most of you will try to argue this.

[Anonymous No.11372852]

>>11372572
Looks fried rather than grilled.

[Anonymous No.11373843]

>>11372572
Adding anything other than a condiment, for me
Sometimes you can get away with fruit or bacon, but anything more and it’s officially a different kind of sandwich

[Anonymous No.11373848]

>>11372609
>2 slices of cheese
>$5 total
Yeah that checks out
You wouldn’t use cheese anymore expensive on a sandwich unless you hated the taste of the cheese itself

[Anonymous No.11373849]

>>11372852
That's because the term "grill" in this case refers to a plancha grill, aka a "griddle" or "flattop", not a BBQ grill.