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Grilled cheese hack: assemble the sandwich open-faced on a baking sheet and place under the broiler for a few minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbling and slightly browned, then close it up and cook it like normal in a covered skillet on medium heat with butter. The cheese will be completely melted and (more importantly) it will stay melted while you're actually eating the sandwich, and the browning on the cheese adds a big flavor component.
I used to make them the normal way just in a skillet, and even if the cheese was just barely melted it would cool off and re-solidify before I started eating it. And often I would burn the crust just trying to get the cheese melted.
I worship at the altar of Alton Brown, but I almost think he was kidding with that video. So much extra work just to melt the cheese.
It was a bit of a high effort shitpost. But that doesn't mean we can't learn anything from it. I'm definitely not pulling out a grill and full chimney of charcoal just to make literally grilled cheeses but fresh shredded cheese blends with spices as the filling? Hell yeah! Premelt the cheese so it gets bubbly and crispy? Do it under a broiler! Use something other than Wonderbread? Yes please!
I do love high effort shitposts. They have an oddly profound beauty to them
Alternate grilled cheese hack. Heat the skillet on medium till the skillet is hot. Really wait a couple minutes till it has come up to temperature. Melt a pat of butter on the skillet - don't tear up you bread trying to spread butter on it. Cook the sandwich for one minute in the butter, move it to the side then melt another pat of butter in the empty space. Flip and cook the other side of the sandwich in the new butter. One min+ a little on this side.
Bonus look up inside out grilled cheese sandwiches and do them this way.