/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.8986325]

what's the best way to make a proper grilled cheese?

[Anonymous No.8986360]

Start with decent bread. Something stiff and firm that will hold up to being grilled. Ultra-fluffy Wonderbread types will fall apart. Ciabatta is my personal favorite. Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise on one side of each slice, and a thin layer of some hot or Dijon mustard on the other side. Melt butter in a pan, then place the bread mayonnaise side down in the melted butter. Then place the cheese on top of the sides with the mustard. Cheese is usually personal preference, but I like the sharpest stuff I can find. Usually a sharp cheddar and some aged Gouda. Mimolette and Parmesan is also good. You will want to grate the cheese to ensure that it melts more evenly. After the bread has gotten toasty and the cheese has melted, sandwich the two halves together and throw some more melted cheese directly into the pan. Let that cheese get nice a and crispy on the edges then put the sandwich on top. Repeat for the other side. The creates a crust of crispy cheese on the exterior of the sandwich, while also have a soft gooey interior. Also, the browning of the cheese creates some extra flavors. If you like those crispy cheesy bits, you can get even more by slicing your sandwich in half at the end and frying the slices edges for a few seconds to crisp up the cheese that oozes out.

TL;DR: Mayo + Mustard + Burnt Cheese

[Anonymous No.8986363]

>>8986325
Step 1. Don't
Step 2. Make a quesadilla instead

[Anonymous No.8986381]

>>8986363
How do?

[Anonymous No.8986385]

>>8986325

[Anonymous No.8986390]

>>8986385
how is that butter so soft? whenever i add butter to the bread the bread fucking breaks

[Anonymous No.8986399]

>>8986390
Maybe don't keep your butter in the fridge, fellow homosexual

[Anonymous No.8986419]

>>8986390
1. It isn't in the fridge
2. It isn't in fucking Sweden or wherever the fuck you're from

[Anonymous No.8986424]

>>8986390
it's called being "not cold"

dumb fuck

[Anonymous No.8986464]

>>8986325
>what's the best way to make a proper grilled cheese?

Dunno about proper, but I like to butter the inside of my bread, brown both slices, then butter the outside, add cheese and finish cooking. Cooking the inside first makes it crunchier and more buttery, as well as speeding up how quickly the cheese melts.

[Anonymous No.8986495]

>>8986390

It's fucking warm you stupid fuck

[Anonymous No.8986549]

>>8986363
this

[Anonymous No.8987408]

Add bacon, jalapenos, and blackberry jam to it

[Anonymous No.8987472]

>>8986549
Scary!

[Anonymous No.8987758]

>>8986325

2 slices white bread
2 cheese slices

Toast bread in a toaster until golden. Place slices of cheese between the two pieces of toast. Wrap sandwich in a paper towel and heat in the microwave for 15 to 20 seconds, or until cheese is melted.

[Anonymous No.8987893]

I like a slice of grilled ham or a really thin hamburger patty in my grilled cheese. The additional protein really makes for a heartier sandwich.

[Anonymous No.8987896]

>>8987408
>>8987893
Those are melts, not grilled cheeses.

[Anonymous No.8987921]

>>8987896
Grilled cheese is not grilled

[Anonymous No.8987930]

>>8987896
If it's pan fried in butter, it's a grilled cheese
In order to be a melt it has to be cooked in an oven or a press

[Anonymous No.8987939]

>>8986385

I was going to say the way in Chef with the 5 unnecessary steps that no one in the real world would do. Alton Brown also has a lovely version where he cooks the cheese separately in aluminium foil because... reasons. He's so clever!

>>8986325

Butter outside of bread, cheese in between bread, low/medium heat. Turning after checking for your preference of brown on the underneath.

[Anonymous No.8987960]

>>8987930
no
grilled cheese is just bread, butter, cheese.
when you add other ingredients like meats and vegetables it becomes a melt.

[Anonymous No.8987972]

>>8986325
With bacon.

[Anonymous No.8987977]

>>8986360
Mayo and mustard are a great way to ruin a classic dish. Good job, you are what everyone hates with cooking.

[Anonymous No.8988030]

>>8986549
Why is Twilight Sparkle there?

[Anonymous No.8988045]

>>8987939
I can spot a woman from a mile away. Alton Brown was a dumbass about that episode because he was running out of ideas.

[Anonymous No.8988047]

>>8987960
I make my grilled cheese with ham and vegetables all the time.

[Anonymous No.8988059]

>>8986325

Heat

[Anonymous No.8988064]

>>8988045

sorry for offending your husbando

[Anonymous No.8988066]

Rye with T H I C C cheddar slices from the block grilled with a generous portion of salted butter until the cheese is melted and gooey served with campbell's tomato soup

[Anonymous No.8989487]

>>8988030

[Anonymous No.8989496]

>>8986360
Yeah, completely ruined something perfectly fine by adding mayonnaise and mustard.

Fucking millenials

[Anonymous No.8989498]

Charcoal

[Anonymous No.8989507]

>>8987960
No, when you use a press or anything other than a frying pan it becomes a melt, you thick fuck.

[Anonymous No.8989513]

>>8989496
>WAAAH
A light spread of dijon cuts through the taste of the cheddar and makes it way better.

[Anonymous No.8989526]

>>8986325
As the name suggests; under the grill
>pic related
Oh, and its actually called cheese on toast not grill cheese ya dumb yank.

[Anonymous No.8989531]

>>8989513
back to plebbit with you

[Anonymous No.8989541]

>>8989531
gb2gaia faglord

[Anonymous No.8989548]

>>8989513
and how do you justify the mayonnaise? just your degenerate compulsion to add tasteless calorie paste to everything you cook?

[Anonymous No.8989764]

>>8986385
Notice how he turns the heat down part way through to allow the cheese to fully melt without letting the bread burn. It's the little things.

[Anonymous No.8989767]

>>8989526

>he doesn't know what a plancha grill is

[Anonymous No.8989790]

>>8989767
Nice try. Nobody actually has one of those.

[Anonymous No.8989804]

>>8986325

I fry both slices of bread on one side until golden, flip, reduce heat, then apply cheese on the toasted side. Then I put a pot lid over the pan to trap steam and evenly melt the cheese. Next I flip one slice on top of the other, press down, and continue frying on both sides until dark golden and the excess moisture from steaming has evaporated.

[Anonymous No.8989807]

>>8986385
he already buttered the bread. why did he need the oil?

[Anonymous No.8989864]

>>8986363
>put cheese in tortilla
>fold tortilla in half
>put in hot pan

[Anonymous No.8989895]

>>8989864
> fold tortilla

Weird, whenever I've had them,. it's two tortilla with cheese in between.

[Anonymous No.8989909]

>>8989895
>Wasting 2 tortillas on 1 quesadilla
fuck nah, thats the white boi way. Just fold it in half like a crescent moon. Put in leftover meat and whatever cheese you want.

[Anonymous No.8989923]

>>8989807
to fatten his son

[Anonymous No.8989928]

>>8989909

Where do you buy hyperbolic tortillas that can be folded into crescents, Anon?

[Anonymous No.8989935]

>>8986325
your pic looks good op just do that

[Anonymous No.8989941]

>>8989928
Hmm? Go to the store. Buy a pack of tortillas. Fold it in half.

This isn't hard.

[Anonymous No.8989943]

>>8986385
i would have preferred better bread but this looks good

[Anonymous No.8989948]

>>8989941
A normal tortilla folded in half is a semicircle. I want crescents like yours, Anon.

[Anonymous No.8989956]

>>8989948
Lmao, my bad
Fold your tortillas in half so they become fucking semicircles

[Anonymous No.8989962]

>>8989864
>>8989909
You have to warm the tortilla first to make it pliable.

[Anonymous No.8989974]

>>8989962
I usually just leave it out for a bit to get room temp
Or just fold it when its still cold and baby sit it while cooking so it doesn't open up

[Anonymous No.8989989]

Just whipped this bad boy a few moments ago, how did I do?

[Anonymous No.8989991]

>>8989948
>fold it in half
>fold it again but not fully folded

[Anonymous No.8990014]

>>8989989
>fried not grilled
0/10
Dumb Shart detected.

[Anonymous No.8990026]

>>8989991
My tortilla is now a wedge.
I think I did something wrong.

[Anonymous No.8990036]

>>8986385
this + add some shit to it if you'd like.

personally i like tomato, avocado, raspberry jam, faggy shit like that.

[Anonymous No.8990049]

>>8989989
not enough cheese imo... but you already knew that and were just hoping I wouldn't notice.

[Anonymous No.8990059]

>>8990049
As usual I didn't add a third slice of cheddar, but I figured two different types of cheese would be difference enough; I was correct. I even took the liberty of adding sun dried tomato sauce to the sandwich. Was pretty good but could have had more cheese 7/10

[Anonymous No.8990084]

>>8990014
>Shartacus
Kek.
Americans.

[Anonymous No.8990119]

>>8989526
>things cheese on toast and grilled cheese are the same thing

[Anonymous No.8990185]

>>8986385

that's a lot of god damned cheese