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To: GretchenM

Is grilled cheese what we call toasted cheese. Toast with either sliced or grated cheese on top melted until it starts to brown under the grill (I believe you say broiler).


233 posted on 08/23/2006 8:06:09 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: snugs
I call it toasted cheese too.

In fact our oldest daughter, at about two, called it "choasted cheese". :)

We just butter the outsides of the bread and put it on a flat frying pan... My Mom used to use a waffle iron for it, but that was too much trouble for me. I just flatten them out with a spatula.

Oh..........and I only buy the all beef franks, because you never know what pieces parts are in the other ones. I read The Jungle at an impressionble age. :)

242 posted on 08/23/2006 8:10:40 PM PDT by ohioWfan (George W. Bush - "Take his character all together, and we shall not look upon his like again.")
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To: snugs

I think grilled cheese would mean put under a broiler (grill). When I say toasted cheese sandwiches, I actually mean that I fry them in butter (lacking a sandwich griller and hating to use the broiler in the oven).


245 posted on 08/23/2006 8:12:17 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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To: snugs; GretchenM

Excuse me for hopping in. But grilled cheese is one thing I am a purist about. It is not what you call toasted cheese.
There are two ways to make it. One is to use a sandwich grill (looks like a waffle iron, but without the grids). You butter the outside of two slices of bread (not toast), put the cheese in the middle, and put the sandwich in the grill so that it compresses the bread. Grill until brown on the outside and the cheese is melted.
The second way is to put the sandwich in a frying pan (you might add some extra butter to the pan) and fry it. You use a spatula to compress it, and flip it at least once. Fry until golden and the cheese is melted.

Prying the sandwich apart and squirting some relish into it is a nice addition. :-)


256 posted on 08/23/2006 8:19:48 PM PDT by speekinout
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