[koukouvagia]

I prefer country bread, not the pre sliced stuff in a bag. Any cheese will do but I prefer provolone and emmentaler and ham. Butter both sides and let it cook slowly without pressing it.

 

[koukouvagia]

It doesn't matter what you put I it. As long as it is grilled and it has cheese it is a grilled cheese. And as long as you don't open it after and add stuff to it. Assemble and grill, that's it.

 

[koukouvagia]

I disagree. By your definition a Rueben or a Patty Melt would be a Grilled Cheese and they aren't, at least in my opinion.

So if you make a grilled cheese and add ham it's a grilled cheese. But if you make a grilled cheese and add a burger patty it is not a grilled cheese?

I happen to think these are all a type of grilled cheese sandwich. Call it what you like, it's still a grilled cheese with some extra stuff in it.

 

[koukouvagia]

I've listened to several of the shows.  I prefer to listen to America's Test Kitchen podcast but yes I find them entertaining.  I'm sure they had a lot to say about the grilled cheese sandwich.  Growing up I thought of a grilled cheese as just cheese and nothing else.  It wasn't until I moved to NY and saw the add-on options at the diner that I began to expand my view of the grilled cheese.  I would have to agree that adding so many things that the ingredients overcome the cheese I wouldn't necessarily call it a grilled cheese but I do think it still is technically a grilled cheese because the point of grilling this sandwich, no matter how many filings it has, is to crisp the bread and melt the cheese.

 

[koukouvagia]

I was massively disappointed once when I visited Carnegie Deli (now closed) years ago. I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich and was given a bizarre multiple decker sandwiches with gobs of American cheese. The top and bottom slices were grilled but everything in between was raw. It was unforgivable.