how do you grill a cheese

[Kalahari Inkantation]

I have always been under the impression that the spread (butter or mayonnaise or whatever it may be) goes both on the outside and the inside of the sandwich. Recently a variety of sources have suggested this is wrong.

[YPrrrr]

I thought it just went on the outside (butter)

Basically you just grease your pan with it

[Thyme]

my natural inclination would be to butter only the inside but i've done it both ways tbh

i do grease my pan tho





tho nowadays i just toast them and then butter the insides and stick a slice of kraft "cheese" in there

[YPrrrr]

I definitely always made it the "redneck" way where you toast the bread, insert cheese, then microwave

Never used butter though, probably should have

[Thyme]

then microwave

...huh

[YPrrrr]

then microwave

...huh

Yeah it's not very classy but it does successfully melt that cheese

[Mando Pandango]

Why would you butter the inside? What's the point?

[strongbad]

Why would you butter the inside? What's the point?

normal grilled cheese isn't fatty enough for you lol

also lol @ ypr

[C.Mongler]

u are buttering the outside to basically lightly fry it on the pan. the only reason to butter the inside is if u would like more butter on your cheese sammy lol

[ME##]

Mayonnaise on the outside, no butter on the inside

[YPrrrr]

Mayonnaise on the outside, no butter on the inside

David stop

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Why would you butter the inside? What's the point?

i just assumed that was the way it was done lol

and then one day i observed my mom making one and found it odd that she didn't butter the inside

that prompted me to look up some recipes online, and again i was surprised that most recipes i saw didn't call for buttering or mayonnaising the inside, although some do

But if I had to provide a logical reason as to "why", I would have guessed it's to allow the cheese to melt more evenly/smoothly.

i'll have to try it without any interior spread one day and see if it makes a difference, i guess it's possible i've been pointlessly adding excess fat to my grilled cheese sandwiches all this time lol

[don't let's]

Wait, mayonnaise on grilled cheese? Wth?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

how i do it:

-a thin layer of butter on the inside of one slice and a thin layer of mayonnaise in the inside of the other
-a thin layer of butter on the outside of one slice and a thin layer of mayonnaise in the outside of the other
-cheese in between, usually a kraft slice or some other branded american processed cheese product plus ~an ounce of grated cheddar or some other harder meltable cheese

is this so wrong

i guess it does reveal me to be the fat animal i am, but i find this recipe consistently results in truly great grilled cheese sandwiches

[Thyme]

put some hot sauce in that bad boy