If we are going to talk cheeses, I find that raclette makes an excellent one. Gets all nice and oozy. Mmmmmm.
Of course the BEST THING about a late night grilled cheese sandwich is that it will give you indigestion and fiendish nightmares that will completely take your mind off the fact that Trump was elected President.
McKay was writing about rarebits, but they are simply an archaic form of the grilled cheese sandwich, which does the trick just as well.
Hell, so does reheated pizza. The important thing is to get melted hot cheese into your gob.
Just had one tonight at Panera with a big bowl of tomato soup! Yum. Only lacking a pickle.
With bacon. Or sauteed mushrooms. Or both.
What a friend we have in cheeses… 
Alton Brown: Grilled Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
On the side? Dill pickle slices in the sandwich, under the cheese is where it’s at. Gooey cheese around a hot tangy dill pickle, that is heaven between two slices of toast.
Alton Brown is a sadist! 
Man, that looks good!
Why didn’t you just ask for a pickle?? I was a GM for Panera (St Louis Bread Co.) for years and I KNOW they have plenty of pickles.
Grill Cheese Sandwiches were a staple for DeadHeads on tour. My buddy and I rigged 24 inches gas stove to run on propane and took it on tour in '94 and '95…we financed our tour and came home with $$ by selling “gourmet” grilled three cheese sandwiches with a lime mustard. We also baked chocolate chip cookies after the show, and served up a “family meal” for our fellow camping partners nightly…
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I made the mistake of reading this thread when I was hungry, so I went out and bought ham and cheese and DH just made me one of his Fabulous Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. I don’t know if I hate you all or love you. 
Who here slices their cheese, and who grates it?
I’ve always sliced, but wouldn’t grating make a smoother, quicker-melting sandwich?
I always grate for quesadillas…which are pretty much a grilled cheese sandwich on tortillas instead of bread.
You don’t want it melting more quickly. If you do that, it doesn’t have time to properly toast/fry/grill the bread. 
I often toast both sides of the slices of bread. Slices are easier to place on already hot bread, and grated melts too much before it’s browned enough. Since grated is less dense, you have to kind of pile it on, and it doesn’t hold together very well when you flip. Unless it melted already, and then it’s too melted when side two is done…
Spread the butter on each side of the prepared sandwich before it goes into the pan, or melt the butter in the pan?
Tell me quick.
It’s really personal preference. Melting first can sometimes cause spotty coverage on the bread with some not covered and some saturated. I usually have to use more and have to smear the bread around the pan. So I prefer to spread on the bread first.
I prefer just to do it in the pan. Throw about a tablespoon in, get it nice and melted, throw in the sandwich. When I flip, I throw about another tablespoon in, let it melt, and fry the other side of the sandwich. As long as you have enough butter, it gets all the bread. Plus I like mine extra buttery, anyway. Lately, I’ve also been putting a bit of butter on the inside of one of the slices and putting a thin smear of Vegemite on it, too.
I like to spread the butter on the bread. **Rhiannon8404 **prefers to melt it in the pan. After 23+ years, we are proof that mixes marriages *can *work.
Dill pickles on a grilled cheese? What, were you raised by Amish wolves??
My college cafeteria always tried to put pickles on my grilled cheese, and I’d have to practically leap over the counter: “OH, NO PICKLES PLEASE!!” before they slimed it up with those disgusting things.
Occasionally, I’ll jazz up the GCS by frying an egg first, then making that the nucleus of the sandwich. Good eatin’s. 
Yep, Panera is generous with their pickles. As for an extra one and they give you a whole little cup full of pickle spears. I love my Panera.