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butter or mayo to make grilled cheese

	butter [ of course ]
	mayo [ adds more flavor ]
	whatever is available [ doesn't matter ]
	neither, olive oil
	don't care

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.....do you use butter or mayo to make your grilled cheese.......???

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Actually, I DO care. I use BOTH. Butter on the outside and Mayo on the inside.

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Bill
Flagler Beach, FL 32136

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OMG...my world was just rocked. I had never considered using mayo...but now I must.

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Olive oil and butter.

It only takes a dab of butter to flavor olive oil.

...Also, sliced pickles and tomato inside.

...And you want to rock your world? Try a sharp Havarti cheese.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/21/2018 08:46PM by Sarcany.

I recently heard about mayo, and am willing to give it a try.

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WHiiP
Actually, I DO care. I use BOTH. Butter on the outside and Mayo on the inside.

.this
On whole wheat with Extra Sharp Cheddar.
Sometimes I add some bacon, cos bacon makes everything better

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/21/2018 09:12PM by MrNoBody.

Butter, thick Italian bread slices, mixed cheeses ... based on what we have.

As long as some of the cheese goes on the outside of the bread, as well as the inside... makes for a nice crunchy, cheesy, delicious, crust!

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Why is this thread only about the fat product spread on the bread? The fundamental issue is the type of cheese. I say....sharp cheddar, preferably a high quality american product (e.g Tillamook) or a nice english farmhouse cheddar.

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Why is this thread only about the fat product spread on the bread? The fundamental issue is the type of cheese. I say....sharp cheddar, preferably a high quality american product (e.g Tillamook) or a nice english farmhouse cheddar.

...And you want to rock your world? Try a sharp Havarti cheese.

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cbelt3
Butter, thick Italian bread slices, mixed cheeses ... based on what we have.

and if it isn't good garlic bread I like to season the pan with a little butter and some fine ground garlic ahead of presenting the sandwich to the pan.
Anything else is not grilled cheese. It might be grilled cheese + and there's nothing wrong with that, just don't call it grilled cheese.

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Mayo?!?!?! Ok, I can't say it's gross, since I do use mayo, but I'd honestly never thought of it.

Try asiago, too. A combo of cheeses is very good. Lots of butter is key to the pan frying.

I've heard of using mayo, but didn't try it. I usually make these for my wife, and she hates mayo. I love using lots of different cheeses as well!

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I do see that spreading the mayo evenly on the exterior surfaces of the bread would be easier than cold hard butter. How about home made olive oil mayo?

I cheat and use a Cuisinart griddler press FWIW.

oh it’s nasty

Canola oil, Milton's whole wheat bread, Cabot extra sharp cheddar, Applewood smoked uncured bacon and sliced tomatoes from Trader Joe's.

Mavis prefers butter.

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gl @ Dana Point, CA

Butter outside, sharp cheddar slices inside. It's great enough that I haven't felt the need to use my favorite cheddars (eg Black Diamond or Coastal Rugged Mature Cheddar Cheese).

No butter, no cheese, no mayo in my diet. But even before they were off the table, mayo would never cross my lips. Yuck with a capital Y.

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. . . mayo would never cross my lips. Yuck with a capital Y.

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......mayo it basically eggs and oil......

....have also heard of using garlic aoli [ basically mayo with garlic ].....

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

My dear deceased mother thought a grilled cheese consisted of toasted buttered white bread with a slice of American cheese. It was the only way my little sister would eat one. I never knew what a real grilled cheese was until I made my own later in life. In fact, I never ate cheese when I was a kid.

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WHiiP
Actually, I DO care. I use BOTH. Butter on the outside and Mayo on the inside.

Yep, this is the way to go.

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Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)

My dear deceased mother thought a grilled cheese consisted of toasted buttered white bread with a slice of American cheese.

I like the way she thought.


In fact, I never ate cheese when I was a kid.

Neither did I until I had a rare opportunity to have a 'school lunch' which was tomahto soup and grilled cheese, but without the butter, if I recall correctly. And that was the beginning of one of my Favorite Simple Meals.


Butter outside, sharp cheddar slices inside. It's great enough that I haven't felt the need to use

...anything else. I'm no gourmand, so that works for me. I do wish I knew what cheese In-n-Out uses on their burgers. It's very tasty, and it would work well, too.

A co-worker once told me 'You know, mayonnaise it pretty good! It's like you white people's soul food.' That cracked me up.

I love real mayonnaise, no Lite for me. I use it on burgers (with ketchup and mustard, et. el), on hot dogs when not using ketchup and mustard, tunafish and ham and tamahto sandwiches.

A versatile spread.

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I actually use none of that stuff. I grew up putting the grilled cheese between two hot plates (turned the waffle iron into a griddle) and ate it that way. Yummy good, thin grilled cheese!

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Spiff
I actually use none of that stuff. I grew up putting the grilled cheese between two hot plates (turned the waffle iron into a griddle) and ate it that way. Yummy good, thin grilled cheese!

That's exactly how we ate it,.as.my mother had (probably still has) a press that turned into a flat side griddle. I never knew grilled cheese was not squished until much later in life. Maybe the press is an Oster...?

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My dear deceased mother thought a grilled cheese consisted of toasted buttered white bread with a slice of American cheese. It was the only way my little sister would eat one. I never knew what a real grilled cheese was until I made my own later in life. In fact, I never ate cheese when I was a kid.

Hey, that's my go to method! American cheese, not cheese food! (yuck!) Real butter, not margarine, (yuck!) and simple, sliced white bread. It's delicious, and none of that pretentious, it's expensive so it must be good, extras.

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If you put anything other than cheese inside the sandwich it is no longer a grilled cheese. Not that it isn't good, just that you can no longer call it a grilled cheese. I stand firm by this fact of life.

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I quick search on MRF has revealed that "raclette" has never been mentioned here before.
I must remedy this. Raclette.

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I quick search on MRF has revealed that "raclette" has never been mentioned here before.
I must remedy this. Raclette.

I could sit and watch that for an hour... *drool*

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Eureka, CA

The butter on the outside is so that you get browning when you grill it.

I put mustard on the inside...

Mustard as a dipping sauce

....that's a nice rac...........................lette........

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3d
I quick search on MRF has revealed that "raclette" has never been mentioned here before.
I must remedy this. Raclette.

That looks amazing!

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)


"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Eli Weisel

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it." - Billy Graham 1981

"Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise" - Barry Goldwater

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3d
I quick search on MRF has revealed that "raclette" has never been mentioned here before.
I must remedy this. Raclette.

oh yeah, must be great not just on potatoes but on cauliflower. That looks like an awful lot though.

No holes !.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/2018 05:17AM by billb.

Dat's a lotta cheese.

Help yourself to a nice warm bowl of cheese pudding.

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Two for two, I'm good now.

We are a government of laws, not men.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

Everybody matters or nobody matters.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Butter is ideal, but try this if you're going to use mayo on the outside in lieu of butter: Use a spicy flavored mayo instead of the regular kind.

Instead of just "fatty" and sweet, it gets tangy and sweet.

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.....garlic aoli....or chipote aoli........

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