Grilled Cheese Invitational

Mmm…delicious!

Why butter as well? I never liked butter and cheese ^_^

So there is something to drip through the holes in the bread and run down your fingers...

Love their email address... hotcheesygoodness@...

Oh great. Now you tell me, when the book's closed. Maybe I'll crash it anyway.

Now I want a grilled cheese sandwich.

The photos don't have enough raunchy, R-rated close-ups of the sammiches themselves, but the rules are a hoot.

The only thing I don't understand is that they are not "grilled" sandwiches at all; they are "fried": dry, shallow or deep, frying is frying. Grilling involves applying heat from above, not from a greased frypan. Is it now acceptable to call something "grilled" when it sits on top of cooking surface - I turn my back for a second and look what happens!

I've always called them "grilled cheese sandwiches", and I've always made them by frying on a frying pan. Perhaps calling them "grilled" serves to make them sound healthier?

We do 'em both ways, and also in a sandwich maker which seals in the heat and results in class 2 burns to the tongue and lips, especially if you add tomato.

My preference is pan fried with lots of salt, and a beer, and then a trip to the coronary unit.

My favourite food for tongue burns and general bodily damage is a hot treacle pudding, but to each their own.

I never realised people fried cheese sandwiches. I've never even conceived of the idea.

Wow!

If the edges are sealed in a 'sandwich maker', as described by Bunyip, then what you have is a jaffle and it's true, cheese and tomato jaffles are deadly hot and can take hours to cool down.

When we were kids, all of our mothers had 'jaffle irons' which they'd heat on the stove top flame. You can still buy jaffle irons in camping stores: their foot long handles and bread sized, hinged compartment that seals makes them ideal for cooking on an open fire, or for smelting lead to cast bullets and such.

We considered it a great test of courage to see who could first bite all the way through their lava-hot cheese and tomato jaffle.

Sounds like a siege weapon: instead of pouring boiling oil on the attacking army, just pass out freshly made jaffles!

Also, are you sure you don't mean "waffle"?

I think 'jaffle' is the Australian or South African name for a toasted sandwich, but I'm not sure.

Grilled is grilled. Fried is fried. Both are good but pretending is bad.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Jaffle sounds familiar. But we call them snackwiches.

That might be a more modern name though.

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I make grilled cheese in the frying pan. I fry hot dogs sometimes, too.

Robert's right - jaffle irons for incendiary sandwiches.

The waffle irons are like those things you see at the ice cream shops - Royal Copenhagen and the Nordic one - where they pour on the flour/cream/water/whatever mixture ands before it cools they wind it into a cone. Waffles is like that, although you usually leave them flat and top them with maple syrup, fresh whipped cream, etc, of your cardiac arrest choice.


But as Ben Gunn said: 'Often I dreamed of cheese, toasted mainly'*


*Hope I quoted properly. It's a gazillion years since I read Treasure Island, me hearties!

Also, waffle irons have that pattern on them.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Guess I'm the only one that makes toasted cheese sandwiches:

Put bread in toaster, then add cheese with no butter or *shudder* mayo, nuke it until the cheese melts & let it sit about a minute before you eat it-
dip it in whatever you like- since the bread's toasted on both sides, you can even dip it in soup...

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I make proper cheese toasties... I grill em. Everything else is just too complicated.

Worcester Sauce?