a grilled cheese sandwich is actually fried?
haha what
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
The weird thing is that grilling as in actually grilling with a grill is a good way to make toast
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
How do you make yours? xp
― I can't turn my heart into a nabkin dispender. (WilliamC), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
"i like baked potatoes. Baking, that's when you immerse something in very hot water over a stove, right?"
^this is you right now, America, afaict
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
just thinking yesterday how much i miss 'toasties' - i.e. a toasted sandwich filled with things like cheese or ham or egg or all three, with SEALED EDGES so shit doesn't fall out
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3116/sandwich20maker.jpg
voted other: grainy bread toasted well-golden/super crunchy, cooled but not cold before spreading butter
― just1n3, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
toasted sandwich makers are great for five minutes then you can't fit them in the cupboard next to the unused George Foreman grill
― every time you sneer at "white boys with guitars" a Ramone dies (onimo), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
xxxp I have no problem with any method of melting cheese over bread, I like to make quesadillas in a pan, my thing is basically just if you call grilling frying what the hell do you call frying (don't answer that I'm not sure I'm ready to know)
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Uh I mean if you call frying grilling
God I'm confused
But how do you make a grilled cheese sandwich?
― I can't turn my heart into a nabkin dispender. (WilliamC), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Using a grill
I have never made a fried cheese sandwich but the idea is not unappealing
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
i have made the following cheese sandwiches
grilled (proper grilled like)fried (these are good too)microwaved (i do not recommend)
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
xps i don't own one myself, but we had one growing up and it got used almost weekly
― just1n3, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoVbnv01Qek
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
grilled (proper grilled like)
Still trying to understand what equipment and method this involves east of the Atlantic. Is there any fat (butter/margarine/oil) applied to the outward facing side of the bread? If not, does the bread not scorch?
I remember when dubbed Iron Chef episodes came over here and they used "grilled" when they meant "baked." Fucking English language!
― I can't turn my heart into a nabkin dispender. (WilliamC), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
WmC, grilling in UK & australia etc == cooking under heat ie broiling
a 'grill' for all intents and purposes is a broiler
even though I really hate even saying the word broil because it is super ridiculous
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
As darragh alluded to above, you guys use the word broil, a word nobody else has ever had need for. So, uh, a broiler? Which doesn't touch the surface of the bread.
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
Xp!
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
'grill' can still also refer to a charcoal or gas grill like a barbecue type situation, depending on the kind of food
but a "grilled cheese sandwich" would most commonly be broiled or made in a sandwich maker
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
fin
TY, VG -- another culture chasm bridged.
― I can't turn my heart into a nabkin dispender. (WilliamC), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
welcome!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
You guys are calling American grilled cheese "fried" when it's not - frying involves immersion in oil. If anything, they're sauteed.
I think.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
(just checked and apparently sauteeing is considered a kind of frying, but that seems wrong)
― Je55e, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
we wd distinguish between "deep frying" (immersion) and "shallow frying" (like sauteeing basically) but if there's a pan and hot fat of some kind it's frying in our parlance
― I never did nothing to no curry (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
anyway i made grilled cheeses tonight and calling them fried cheeses wd feel wrong so
http://i.imgur.com/h7k6lou.jpg
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Have never had toast
Fuck that white people shit
― 龜, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:22 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_toast#Milk_toast_in_Asia
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
Of course, bread and cheese under the broiler is called toasted cheese, just to make things more interesting.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
here, if you fry bread it is called "fried bread" and is distinct from toast
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_bread
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Ugh white bread is so gross, just straight in my "not even food" category right away.
― Yth Esos Yn Breten; Kows Predennek! (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 09:05 (ten years ago) link
the answer is plugra butter on a fresh pullman loaf straight out of the oven.
― mary-kate and ashley's roachclip (get bent), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 09:17 (ten years ago) link
Cant get behind whiteshaming itt tbrr
― CSI BONO (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 09:29 (ten years ago) link
Why would you want to eat cold toast??
― inside out trousers (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link
toast made with brown bread is superior.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
voted "french"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
The real question is whether we eat it with the butter-side up or butter-side down.
― set the trolls for the heart of the sun (how's life), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
real butter, unsalted. Butter while hot obviously, the toast should absorb the butter, the butter should not just be on top. The bread should be toasted to whatever the brown equivalent of golden is.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
butter-side down
WAHT
― every time you sneer at "white boys with guitars" a Ramone dies (onimo), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
P sure that was jokes
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
yooks are not zooks, keep your butter-side up
― set the trolls for the heart of the sun (how's life), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
I haven't had butter or white bread in my domicile in eons.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
unsalted butter on bread sounds like kind of a bummer to me but I loooooooooooove salted melty butter
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
I'm not a huge butter fan, but unsalted butter is awful. It just causes me to salt the food more than I already do, which quite a bit. Salt your butter people.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
Plugra butter is so fantastic, even unsalted is great on toast. If the bread is good, it should bring enough salt.
― I can't turn my heart into a nabkin dispender. (WilliamC), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
option 2, non butter users i am so sad for u
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
don't typically use butter, and i try to have really fresh bread that doesn't need toasting. what is toasting if not an attempt to revive shit bread? if toasting is required, golden brown plz.
― blot it out (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Jeff OTM. Even plugra needs salt.
I was at a fancy steakhouse last week where bread came w/ unsalted butter topped with ground salt. That was the best.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Hunter not OTM. Toast is its own thing, not a requirement.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
Is "grilled bread" simply toast?
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
I dread to imagine what else it could be
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
reanimated bread
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:34 (four years ago) link