When I heard you could use an iron to make a grilled cheese, I had to try it for myself! To my surprise it was super easy! And because I couldn't leave you with any regular ole' grilled cheese, this iron grilled cheese features comte, gruyere, ossau iraty, and stilton - but you could definitely use whatever you have on hand!
Iron Grilled Cheese
I don't know about you but my dormitory experience was absolutely awful. I lived in a little allergen-infested cubbyhole with a girl that spent almost every night instant messaging until three in the morning. This wouldn't have been that bad, but you see, she always kept the volume turned all the way up.
Do you remember that little ba-ding noise that happened EVERY SINGLE TIME you sent or received a message? Well yeah, it sort of drove me crazy. Oh and not to mention, she had a huge obsession with Sponge Bob. Her side of our tiny cage, i mean, dorm room had it all: a Sponge Bob comforter, Sponge Bob pillows, Sponge Bob posters, the whole package. She had it and I was not having it.She was a great girl though. Really.
Anyway, beyond being stuck with an 18-year-old female version of the 8-year-old boy I used to babysit, I was also without a kitchen for the first time in my life. This was a hard adjustment for me. I didn't get a meal plan because I thought the cafeteria was gross so I was forced to adapt. For the first few months I lived off of Pabst Blue Ribbon, copious amounts of cereal (Smacks and Lucky Charms if you can even consider those sugar concoctions cereal) and far too many peanut butter and jellies sandwiches (aka Pea-nutter-jel-andwiches).
This was definitely a fun and exciting time in my life. Living on my own, having no curfew, and doing whatever the eff I wanted was wonderful. But my palette and reputation were suffering; one can only go through the TacoBell drive-thru so much before they start to know you by name. That was, until one day, I discovered this beautiful gem.
How to Make a Grilled Cheese Using an Iron
To begin, Plug in your iron and put it in a safe spot. If it has a steaming option, turn it off and set it to the highest heat setting (which is usually labeled cotton).
From here, lay out your tin foil and butter one piece of bread. Then place it so the butters side is facing down. Next, pile on your cheeses and simply place the other slice of bread on top and add some more butter.
Now fold up the tin foil around the sandwich. When your iron is piping hot, go ahead and place it on top of the tinfoil and apply some pressure. After about 5 minutes, carefully check to see if the bread is starting to crisp up. It took me about 4-6 minutes for each side.
After it's all cooked up, go ahead and gently open up your packet. I think it's best to take out the grilled cheese right away because it gets kind of soggy if it stays all cooped up.
RECIPE: Iron Grilled Cheese
4 Cheese Iron Grilled Cheese
Ingredients
- about a 1 square foot of tin foil
- 2 pats of salted butter
- 2 slices of hearty whole wheat
For cheese blend - about 4 tbsp worth of cheese
- 1 tbsp grated Comte
- 1 tbsp grated Gruyere
- 1 tbsp grated Ossau Iraty
- .5 tbsp crumbled Stilton or some yummy blue
Instructions
- To begin, Plug in your iron and put it in a safe spot. If it has a steaming option, turn it off and set it to the highest heat setting (which is usually labeled cotton).
- From here, lay out your tin foil and butter one piece of bread. Then place it so the butters side is facing down. Next, pile on your cheeses and simply place the other slice of bread on top and add some more butter.
- Now fold up the tin foil around the sandwich. When your iron is piping hot, go ahead and place it on top of the tinfoil and apply some pressure. After about 5 minutes, carefully check to see if the bread is starting to crisp up. It took me about 4-6 minutes for each side.
- After it's all cooked up, go ahead and gently open up your packet. I think it's best to take out the grilled cheese right away because it gets kind of soggy if it stays all cooped up.
Notes
If you like inventive grilled cheese sandwiches like these, then you might also like my cookbook:
Grilled Cheese Social - Super Fun Recipes for Super Fun times
Stay tuned for next week, where I present another new and exciting way to cook up a yummy grilled cheese sandwich!
xoxo,
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Jeannette
How could you not have referenced Benny & June in this?! That movie started and totally represents the ironed grilled cheese! But I like how you do the tinfoil, definitely smart.
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I don't own an iron. But I do have hair straighteners (sorry for the English-ism) - could this method be adapted?
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look so yummy , i should try to make it 🙂 thanks for this wonderful blog 🙂 . This should be one of my needs in order to loose fats 🙂 and be included in my diet 🙂
Erica
So clever! Looks goo. I'll try it!
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I'm a sophomore and we have an iron in our dorm room...I think I know what I'm making for dinner some evening!
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Rachel
would have gone great with the slice and bake cookies we used our extra iron for! Thanks for bringing back some great memories --- and it looks delish
Zombie
Greatest idea to cook a grilled cheese ever!!!
Micalah
So clever...
Christy
You should have opened cafe seating in the hallway. Your fellow dorm mates would have cued up round the clock. Your ironed grilled cheese looks WAY better than most of what I ate in the cafeteria freshman year. And I bet it smelled heavenly in your cage, I mean pineapple under the sea.
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Olivia
I wish I had known about this when I was a freshman in college - I was living off of granola bars, peanut butter (or nutella) and dominos.
I might still try it out, just to try it, even though I have a kitchen....
Thanks!