# Today was National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day/685980>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 13, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day/685980 "2014-04-13T01:54:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day/685980/21 "2014-04-15T01:20:29Z")

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> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> Fair enough. I made another grilled cheese this evening.
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> I’ve been doing grilled cheese wrong this whole time. I always spread butter on the bread and then put it in the pan. Wrong.
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> Better way to do it, which I have recently discovered, is to melt butter in the pan and dredge the bread in melted butter. Then add cheese and throw in to the pan.
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> I have no idea why that works better, but it’s so much more crispy and doesn’t seem to leave the middle soggy in the least.

I usually put a pat of butter on each slice of bread, then microwave for 10 to 15 seconds to soften the butter. I end up getting a nice spread without ripping up the bread that way. In the pan makes perfect sense too

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**Author:** ![80sMusicfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/2acd7d/32.png) [@80sMusicfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sMusicfan)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day/685980/22 "2014-04-15T02:53:44Z")

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I had it on saturday, Ihave it with white bread and chocolate milk.  
I put the butter on the bread.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day/685980/23 "2014-04-15T03:38:37Z")

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> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#):
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> Wait, you make grilled cheese with one slice of bread? How the heck does that work?

Why is an open-face sandwich so hard to understand? Mom used to make 'em. I hated it.

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**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-was-national-grilled-cheese-sandwich-day/685980/24 "2014-04-19T12:48:48Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> Why is an open-face sandwich so hard to understand? Mom used to make 'em. I hated it.

They aren’t hard to understand. Grilling one in a pan is hard to understand.

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