Appetizers
Apartment Grilled Cheese on Electric Grill
Grilled cheese is a sleeper app for electric grills, especially contact grills like the George Foreman. Two-sided heat means the bread browns uniformly without any flipping guesswork, and the slight press flattens the sandwich enough to fully melt the cheese without burning the crust. This is a better version of the pan method, not just a convenient one. The three-cheese mix is the other move. Single-cheese grilled cheese is always slightly disappointing because no individual cheese does everything. Cheddar gives you punch. Gruyere gives you complexity. Mozzarella gives you the stretch. Together they cover every register of the grilled cheese experience. Mix in the butter-mayo spread and you are eating something closer to a diner grilled cheese than anything you can make with a pan and a stick of butter.
Ingredients
- 4 slices sourdough bread
- 3 tbsp butter, softened
- 2 oz sharp cheddar, grated
- 2 oz Gruyere, grated
- 1 oz mozzarella, grated
- 1 tbsp mayonnaise
- Flaky salt
Instructions
- 01
Stir the softened butter with the mayo. This hybrid fat gives you the flavor of butter with the crispness of mayo.
- 02
Butter-mayo spread on one side of each slice of bread.
- 03
Preheat the grill to 375F.
- 04
Place two slices on the grill butter-side down. Pile on the three cheeses and top with the remaining slices, butter-side up.
- 05
Grill 3 minutes per side with a light press from a spatula. The bread should be deeply golden and the cheese just melted when you lift the corner to check.
- 06
Rest 60 seconds before cutting. A hot grilled cheese falls apart; a 60-second-rested one stays together.
Pro Tips
From our kitchen
- ★Three cheeses beat one, every time. Cheddar for flavor, Gruyere for nutty depth, mozzarella for the melt and the cheese pull.
- ★Mayo in the spread is a diner trick. Its emulsified oil browns more evenly than butter alone.
- ★Electric grills toast grilled cheese better than a pan because the heat comes from both sides when the lid is closed, eliminating the flip entirely on a contact grill like the George Foreman.
We recommend for this recipe
George Foreman GGR50B 15-Serving Indoor/Outdoor Grill
The George Foreman GGR50B 15-Serving Indoor/Outdoor Grill's 240 sq in surface and removable stand for indoor/outdoor use and george tough nonstick coating make it our pick for this recipe.
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