Me, I like them plain. Bread, butter, cheese. Sometimes, I add a little onion.
How do you like yours?
Heh. My old roommate used to think that my answer to this question was “burned to a blackened crisp,” because I nearly always make them that way. But no, I like them golden brown; I just have a nasty habit of forgetting about them once they’re in the pan, and 90% of the time my grilled cheese sammiches come out Cajun-style.
I’m a bread-butter-cheese girl also. Bonus points if there’s any Campbell’s tomato soup in the house (made with milk, please). Makes a nice trashy lunch. 
Plain, too. Butter on the outsides, cheese in the middle. Grill until nicely toasted. Dip in ketchup. My wife dips hers in applesauce, but she’s insane, so I give her a pass.
I combine the two of you…I like mine plain, golden brown, dipped in ketchup, and Campbell’s tomato soup on the side.
Since so many people eat cheese toasties and tomato soup together, are we all victims of a marketing campaign from 1954?
I no longer use any butter or oil when I make grilled cheese sandwiches. I just put the cheese between the slices of bread and pop it into the George Foreman Grill for a couple of minutes, and it turns out crunchy on the outside and creamy on the inside. Gimme some sliced dill pickles and I’m in heaven.
Sharp American or cheddar, with chopped green onion if available. Whole wheat bread, buttered on the outside.
Good old fashioned plain white bread with a nice thick smear of real butter on one side. Two 1/2 inch or so thick slices of velveeta, one whole, at one corner of the bottom slice of bread and the second brocken and fitted around the first in an 'L" shape. Grilled a little beyond brown. Served whith a good squirt of yellow mustard on the side and a few hearty garlic pickle slices. and a glass of milk w/ ice.
Thanks for asking!
I like mine with a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary on it. Big money in those.
I never ever understood the “butter the bread on the outside” people. I just melt butter in the pan.
Anyhoo, I like mine with thin-sliced tomatoes and a little garlic salt. Dunking this sammich in tomato soup is the only part of being sick that I don’t dread.
Another vote for plain bread, butter, cheese with a side of tomato soup. It’s the supreme comfort food.
With pimento cheese, toasted, with a leaf of lettuce, and a hefty dose of tomatoes and onions.
Try this variation (one of my favorites) - Swiss cheese with a good bit of stone ground mustard on the inside of each piece of bread.
I really like just about anything on a grilled cheese. Tomatoes, ham, bacon, it’s all good. Mozzarella with a little pizza sauce is even good.
Really is there any such thing as a BAD grilled cheese sandwich (other than burnt)?
White bread, cheddar cheese, a squirt of mayonaise. MMMMMMMM.
Sharp cheddar, slices of tomato, and cooked in a sandwich press. Yum.
My normal grilled cheese is cheddar on wheat bread, but my favorite is cream cheese with jalapenos. It’s the perfect combination–melty and creamy, but with some heat. Just plain cream cheese would be boring.
A close second is parmesan (with a little parmesan sprinkled on the outside of the bread so it gets all browned and crusty when you cook it). Mmmmm, that’s good grilled cheese!
I wouldn’t use anything but real butter for grilled cheese. But then I never use margarine. Margarine is yucky.
Add carmelized onions (and maybe alternate the cheddar with swiss or provolone) and put it between sourdough and you’ve got my sandwich.
If I"m feeling particularly jaunty, I might throw some basil leaves in between the tomatoes and the bread, as well. Serve up with a Boddingtons and you’re my hero.
Simple is good. Simple with flair is better.
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I always mess them up in a sandwich maker. Doesn’t keep me from eating the ones I make that way, but I’d never make one for someone else that way. I put the butter on the outside of the bread, erring on the side of too little rather than too much. Just plain cheese, maybe a slice or two of ham or turkey, a little squirt of yellow or honey mustard. I like to dip them in honey mustard too.
I like them with chicken soup instead of tomato.
Nobody said that they like theirs with either bologna or ham in it, I think I’m gonna faint.
I submit that “grilled cheese” is crap without either!
I also dislike tomato soup, which further puts me at odds with the norm. However, I like many other tomato products.
IMHO, balogna is only edible within the confines of an expertly made grilled cheese sandwich. Try it, then judge it. I think you will be pleased.
In my stomach.
Seriously, I love me some grilled cheese. Especially with tomato soup. Which is, coincidentally, what I had for lunch today.
I said ham. Yummy ham!