how do u make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich?

Question

I just need some tips or suggestions

Answer 1

I heat the pan on medium heat. While it is heating up, I spread margarine on 1 side of each piece of bread. Then, I lay each piece in the pan, margarine side down. I then add 1 slice of cheese to each slice of bread, then take a third slice and cut it in half to fill the slice of bread with cheese (I use the Maier's Italian Bread so it is wider than traditional white bread). Then I let it sit until the cheese starts to melt. I take a wide flat spatula (pancake turner) and flip one side onto the other, cheese to cheese. I cut it in 1/2 right away.

You can add tomato after the cheese, but only do that on 1 slice of bread. You can also add bacon, fried salami, pepperoni, or whatever else you like.

Enjoy!

Answer 2

First you need good ingredients. Fresh bread and real cheese. The choice of what kind is a personal preference.

Then, heat the frying pan to medium-low heat. Too hot and you'll just burn the bread without melting the cheese.

Evenly and lightly butter the outside of the bread slices and put the sandwich in the pan. Make sure you flip it before it burns. It can take some practice, but it's not hard. If you are using thick slices of cheese I'd suggest turning the heat down just a bit more, you want the sandwich to sit long enough to heat the cheese without charring the bread.

Answer 3

I like the combination of crisp and creamy so I butter one side of my bread, put the buttered side down on my griddle and cook it until it is browned lightly. Then I butter the other side and when I put it down on the griddle, that's when I add the cheese to the already browned side, put the sandwich together with the crispy side in, buttered on the outside of both slices and brown both slices on that side.

Now, before I brown the second side, I spread a little mayonnaise (Best Foods/Hellmans is the best) on the already toasted side before I add my cheese. The toasted side against the cheese helps it to melt nicely.

This method also works great on a grilled tuna fish sandwich.

I generally use Cheddar or Cojack cheese.

(Have to tell you a story. One time I didn't have any Cheddar or Cojack cheese so I had to use Mozzarella cheese for the sandwiches for my step-kids. Someone didn't eat all of their sandwich and when my step-son went to do dishes, the part of the sandwich wound up in the dish water. The bread separated from the lump of cheese and, being a boy of 11 yrs, he wanted to have a grand old time with that cheese. He came into the living room where his sister was, made coughing sounds and throat-clearing sounds and then opened his hand with that melted piece of mozzarella in his hand - boy did he gross her out!!)

Answer 4

When you butter the bread, sprinkle some garlic powder and you will have garlic grilled cheese.

Cook over medium heat to avoid buring the bread and cooking the outside before the cheese melts.

Do not press on the sandwich while cooking or your bread will lose its texture (but some people like their sandwiches squashed).

Use different cheeses other that the classic cheddar.

Answer 5

My fav is to use a 9 grain bread with lots of nuts and seeds.

I use a spray as opposed to butter. An olive oil spray is nice, it's what I use. I heat my cast iron griddle till nice and hot, when lay the bread down. I top it with a slice of good swiss cheese, a slice of cheddar cheese, a slice of american cheese, then a slice of mozzarella. Sometimes I lay thin slices of tomato on it and always end with a good dab of brown sweet and spicy grainy brown mustard. DELISH. The spray I have found is so much less fattening than using margarine or butter. I'd rather eat the calories in more cheese.

Answer 6

Well, it all just depends. When I make it, I always stick 1-2 pieces of cheese in the bread and then basically just grill it on a pan spread with a thin layer of butter. Yummy. :] Although a fault is that it's pretty fattening. Oh well, just don't eat it a lot...

Answer 7

Ok, here's how I make mine. It's weird, but good. I use white bread (tried sourdough, which I love, but it doesn't work great), TWO slices of American cheese torn up to cover all the bread. Then I put it together, spray one side with garlic spray, put it in the pan on medium to medium high, and spray the other side. Then I just watch for browning and melting and flip.

For sides I've used ketchup, Miracle Whip, or my favorite, wasabi mayo.

Answer 8

i think the key is using butter that's room temperature.

there are a host of other tips at the link i included.

when i was little i read a book in which kids made grilled cheese in foil using a (clothing) iron. i tried it and to my dismay the bread tasted like spray starch. :P

Answer 9

first i cook bacon

then i use thick bread, and marble cheese sliced thick

put the sandwich together, butter the outsides of the bread

and cook over low heat until browned and cheese is meltyyy :D

Answer 10

add a little sugar in the middle, also some garlic on the bread with the butter, be sure to cook over med heat so as not to burn the bread but to brown it and this also cooks it skow so that the cheese melts evenly