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Best Grilled Cheese In The U.S.

Posted: 02/21/2012 2:09 pm

The best grilled cheese sandwich is the gooiest grilled cheese, says Laura Werlin, the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author behind Grilled Cheese, Please! "After you bite into it, the cheese should stretch out past your face as far as your arm will reach. Otherwise, it's just not right."

While it's easy to achieve some level of crunchy, buttery excellence at home, chefs and restaurateurs are creating exceptional grilled cheese sandwiches across the country. Here. Food & Wine names the Best Grilled Cheese in the U.S.

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Heidi Gibson was an engineer with degrees from MIT. Then she won the national Grilled Cheese Invitational and opened this shop in the city's multimedia gulch. Tech geeks come for well-constructed sandwiches like the Mousetrap, with cheddar, Havarti and Monterey Jack on artisanal sourdough.

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The best grilled cheese sandwich is the gooiest grilled cheese, says Laura Werlin, the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author behind Grilled Cheese, Please! "After you bite into it, the cheese shou...
The best grilled cheese sandwich is the gooiest grilled cheese, says Laura Werlin, the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author behind Grilled Cheese, Please! "After you bite into it, the cheese shou...
 
 
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Shauni Waterdragon
Squeak now or forever hold your peas.
09:31 AM on 03/03/2012
Mmmm I like ham in my grilled cheese... also love Gruyère and hot mustard grilled cheese.

My first boyfriend, who was Canadian, taught me to love maple syrup on the classic white bread, american cheese grilled cheese. Ham works with this too. Always use real maple syrup, no Aunt Jemina or such. None of my American friends have ever tried it and still make fun of me. I don't know if it's popular in Canada or if it was just his own thing, but it's my own little secret pleasure for the last forty years and I say thank you Canada! And thanks for the article, I loved it. Gonna go make a grilled cheese for breakfast. Cheers!
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Totto
"Not 'Noise' One Round: *Music*
02:13 PM on 02/29/2012
The best grilled cheese is the one you make yourself in your own kitchen with non-corporate white bread from a local bakery and non-corporate regional American or mild cheddar cheese. Simplest thing in the world, no reason to go any place else. Use good lightly salted butter, preferably Irish or Danish, but lots of great American butters, too. Quality ingredients are always a must.
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theatregrove
Intelligent Debates Please
01:25 AM on 02/26/2012
Grilled cheese has always been good but between this article and everyone's comments and suggestions ... WOW. I go years without grilled cheese sandwiches but now I have to increase my consumption! I can't wait until tomorrow! Old movies, tomato soup and one of these creations! I hope I can stop at just one!
09:46 PM on 02/25/2012
If the grilled sandwich has anything else besides cheese(s) then it is not a grilled cheese sandwich. End of story.
09:25 PM on 02/25/2012
There was only ONE grilled cheese in the list. The rest were hot cheese and meat sandwiches.
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NicoPicoRico
09:24 PM on 02/25/2012
add green chile, then we can talk "the best".
09:23 PM on 02/25/2012
I recently found out that my friends daughter, who is now 30 years old, said I made the best grilled cheese sandwich she ever ate, when she used to come over as a young kid to visit me. She used to visit me when she was very young until I got divorced when she was 10 years old. I laughed so hard, I couldn't believe that I would be remember in one child's life for a simple grilled cheese sandwich!
09:22 PM on 02/25/2012
No I didn't.
09:21 PM on 02/25/2012
No. 2 is not a grilled cheese
09:01 PM on 02/25/2012
These are nothing compared to the sandwiches at Pop's Ice Cream Shop in Roanoke, VA.
jenniferkizzy
zombie chick
08:56 PM on 02/25/2012
yeah me too i think i'll pass
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metusmetu
Once more into the fray, into the last fight...
08:50 PM on 02/25/2012
Okay says I, does anyone on here know where the "grilled cheese" sandwich came from, or why?? Thought not.
It was invented during the "Great Depression", back during the late 1920's, why you ask? Because it was cheaper to make than " a meat sandwich"! ...............and still get the protein you need. People couldn't afford to buy meat back then, so they improvised. Looks like we're headed that way again these days!!
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Still kickin
life should be Little House meets the Jetsons :)
08:40 PM on 02/25/2012
Cheese, bread, grilling fat (butter, mayo or bacon fat)......everything else might be good....but it's not a grilled cheese.
dveloperz
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may co
08:35 PM on 02/25/2012
Finally, real news from HP.
Al Schrader
Don't limit your potential
08:32 PM on 02/25/2012
Grilled roastbeef is nice. Take rare roast beef and pile on mozzarella cheese. Nuke this until the cheese is gooey, about 2 minutes. Place on two slices of buttered marble rye. Grill it to perfection. Serve with "real" tomato soup made with Roma tomatoes....Alfie-