Ultimate Grilled Cheese : Keeping it together
Maybe it's called something else, but to me a grilled cheese sandwich with extra stuff in it is an "ultimate". The extra stuff I'm referring to is generally tomato, onion (thin sliced raw or grilled) and bacon (already cooked).
The problem I'd like to correct is that often the cheese has difficulty fusing the sandwich together because it doesn't stick well to the other ingredients. I've tried a few different placements of the ingredients but they all usually end with on slice of bread not really "attached" the way a proper grilled cheese should be. For example: Bread, Cheese, Other, More Cheese, Bread : this tend to give me two separate slices of bread with cheese and some ingredients in the cheese.
Is there any special technique to keeping this thing together as one piece?
Best Answer
Ignore the purists. If it's got cheese in it, and you're grilling it, it's grilled cheese.
The problem is this: your cold ingredients are keeping the cheese from properly melting through. The cheese is what binds the whole thing together. If there is not enough cheese, or if the cheese hasn't transitioned completely to gooey deliciousness, the sandwich is going to fall apart.
The solution is to heat your cold ingredients (at least to near room temp), and to cook the grilled cheese longer, at a lower temperature, so the heat has time to penetrate before the bread gets overcooked.
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Why does my grilled cheese fall apart?
When not enough butter or mayo is used to coat the bread, it comes out dry and can toast unevenly. \u2192 Follow this tip: We like using butter and melting it in the pan, but you can use butter, mayonnaise, or a combination of the two. Either melt it in the pan or spread it on the bread \u2014 it all works.How do you keep grilled cheese when flipping?
In the video, a man demonstrates flipping a single grilled cheese sandwich by placing a spatula under the sandwich and instead of flipping the sandwich, flipping the pan on top of the opposite side of the sandwich, before placing both back on the stove to finish cooking.How do you keep grilled cheese from getting soggy?
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Grilled Cheese Sandwich | Ramsay Around the World
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Answer 2
What if you grate the cheese and mix the (chopped) bacon and onions into it before putting it on the bread? Then you would have melted cheese with little pockets of deliciousness.
Answer 3
Change up your approach to the grilling: get a hobo iron and make your grilled cheese that way. With a hearty bread bread, you'll be able to put anything you want in there and with enough spinning it will all settles into a beautiful nest of cheesy goodness.
Answer 4
With marmite underneath the cheese. Pepper and a smear of humous added post grilling.
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