quick tip: grilled cheese hack

So, today being national grilled cheese day; i figured it was the perfect time to share my favorite kitchen hack for making multiple grilled cheese sandwiches at once - which, when serving a family of six, is a necessity. The best part of eating a grilled cheese, is eating it the second it comes off the stove all butter melty and cheese pully. Nobody wants to let their sandwich sit on a plate while someone else’s is being made. Everyone wants theirs done. At. The. Same. Time.

This is the way to do it. Perfectly perfect, everytime, and it works equally well whatever kind of bread you want to use, be it large sourdough to dip in tomato soup, or small french baguettes to be used as grilled cheese croutons perched on individual tomato shooters and passed as an appetizer.

Hack:

Preheat oven to broil. You want a rack on the second level from the top.

Line a cooking sheet with tin foil (helps keep the crisp).

Melt 1 - 2 sticks of butter, depending on how many sandwiches you are making.

Slice whatever bread you want, enough for your required sandwiches or grilled cheese croutons.

Shred your own cheese of choice. Shredded cheese melts faster, and there is no better cheese than the one you shred yourself.

Place the bottom of each sandwich on the tin foil. Top with shredded cheese and then the top layer of bread. Using a pastry brush, saturate the top layer of bread with melted butter.

Broil in oven until just golden brown. Do not walk away, do not divert your attention. Broiling can take your bread from golden to burnt in seconds. This should take about 3-5 minutes.

Open oven, pull out tray and flip each sandwich over. Saturate this side of the bread with melted butter. Return pan to the oven.

Stand guard. The second side takes less time to brown than the first side. Remove from oven when golden brown.

Enjoy all the grilled cheese in all its crispy perfection at once.