How do you butter your grilled cheese sandwich?

Question

Do you butter the pan? spread butter on your bread? or do you do both?
~G

Answer 1

Real butter only!

Butter the bread both sides with soft butter. Firm butter tears the bread. Also, seems like a waste of perfectly good butter to butter the pan since the bread won't stick to the pan since it's buttered.

Answer 2

I respectfully disagree with "Young1" regarding how and when to use the butter when preparing a Grilled Cheese sandwich.
Unlike the previous advice you received, I consider the butter-adding technique to be the one factor that will make or break a good Grilled Cheese sandwich. In my personal experience of years of confectioning the grilled cheese, I have found that before anything else.....you need to be using Club Bread (Square-shaped loaf of white bread), because it will maintain it's consistency....as opposed to the regular Wonder bread with the rounded top. Number two......although the type of cheese to use for a grilled cheese sandwich should be a personal preference, I do recommend using extra-sharp cheddar cheese....preferably, Cracker Barrel extra sharp. The cheese should be cut into 1/8" to 3/16" thick slices to have the right amount of cheese in the bread once it melts. Another very important factor is the amount of heat on the pan being used. If you use too much heat, the bread will turn brown too quickly, not giving the cheese the right amount of time to melt evenly. The perfect setting is a slightly low-medium to medium heat element or flame. Once the pan is warm, place table spoon of butter onto the pan......make certain that the heat isn't so high that the butter automatically begins to turn brown.........it should begin to heat up and start bubbling.
Place the two slices of bread on the warming butter in the pan, and let the bread get slightly golden. Here's where it gets good!
Add a little more butter to the pan and flip the two pieces of bread. Now you will place the cheese on one of the slices of bread, and then you will take the other slice of bread and place it on top of the cheese covered slice. The reason for this is that since the part of the bread where the cheese is placed is already heated and toasty, it will make the process of melting the cheese easier and more evenly. Now you only have to flip the sandwich a couple of times until you get the desired golden color on the bread. Serve on a platter, with either some cole slaw, or a slice of dill pickle (That's how it's always been done in the New York Delis).
You can also add some flavor to the grilled cheese by adding bacon or even sliced breakfast link sausages when you put the cheese on the bread.
try it out......and let me know how it turns out.

Best of Luck

Answer 3

This is a highly technical question. I will try to explain why you might chose one way one time and a different way another. First you have your bread. White bread is truly the purist way to go with a grilled cheese sandwich. It has the best browning or toasting ability. Is the bread really soft? It should be. Next examine your butter. Is it right out of the refrigerator? Is this an unplanned grilling? If so, in that case, you melt the butter in the pan because you know you cannot spread hard butter on fresh white bread. Melt enough butter that the slice of bread is engulfed. Add the cheese slice. Top with another slice of bread. You will have to melt more butter before flipping or the butter saturation of both slices will be unequal.

If this is a planned grilling and you have had the forethought to take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance, then you spread the butter on the bread and grill away.

Answer 4

I usually melt a LITTLE butter the middle of the pan and place the sandwich into it, then while the sandwich is in the pan I butter the top. Flip over with a spatula. This way you don't have a big mess on your hands and contrary to popular belief, it comes out just as great without the mess. love, Mom

Answer 5

ok,this is what you do
you butter one side of each bread,put the cheese on both of the sides WITHOUT butter and then grill it on a pan for about 5-10 minutes on medium(5)
till you get a golden coulor

*you could put the butter on the pan,but it wont come out good and thats just what you do when your lazy and dont wanna butter the bread lol

Answer 6

a little butter on the bread AND a little in the pan. but sometimes instead of butter i spread a thin layer of mayo or miracle whip on the bread. it does the same thing as butter but give the sandwich a little tang - worth trying at least once!!!

Answer 7

I butter the bread and the pan.

Answer 8

I love grilled cheese i just had one last night... I butter one slice of bread throw in in the pan put the cheese on it then i butter my other slice and put it on top of the cheese. Comes out nicely light brown every time :) yum yum

Answer 9

Butter the bread--mmmm, grilled cheese. Haven't had one in a really long time.

Answer 10

I use Pam on the pan, but don't go near butter. I'm getting enough cholesterol from the cheese.

One thing I do add is relish of one kind or another. Goes great with a sharp cheddar!