I brought a proctor-Silex Sandwich Maker into work today. We have a cafeteria in our building, and their soup is one of the few safe items they serve. They also have a sandwich bar. The failure of this cafeteria is that while they make a fine Cream of Tomato soup, they do not offer grilled cheese sandwiches. Now we can go down and get bread and cheese and make our own grilled cheese to go with the soup!
The sandwich maker came with some suggestions, but I feel Dopers are a creative bunch and may have some dazzlingly innovative uses for a Sandwich Maker. Any suggestions? (the sandwich bar has white, wheat, sourdough, rye, Texas Toast and muffins, both plain and raisin, and the standard lunch meats and accessories)
You could always make a grilled PB&J just to see what happens 
I roomed with a guy who had a George Foreman Grill. You know what we used it for? We’d put two tortillas on it with some cheddar cheese between and make quesadillas. Basically what you’re doing, but with flour tortillas and tobasco sauce.
I’ve always liked Reubens. I make it with Corned beef, sauerkraut, provolone and thousand island dressing.
Or make some simple deli style sandwiches with roast beef or pastrami and provolone cheese. you don’t really need anything else.
That cafeteria is going to start smelling pretty damn good when you heat up some pastrami.
Oh, it’s worse than that - we’re using the sandwich maker in our cube!
Thanks, folks - keep 'em coming!
At the last office Christmas party, I ended up with a Sesame Street sandwich maker (like a regular sandwich maker, but you end up with either Elmo or Cookie Monster on your sandwich).
I started out trying to be fancy, but as a lazy bachelor my favourite thing about it is that I can put nothing but a cold cut and some discount cheese between two slices of bread, leave it in the fridge overnight, and still turn it in to a sizzling delicious lunch that doesn’t get boring 5 days in a row.
The one slightly out-of-the-ordinary thing I’ve put in it has been condensed milk sandwiches. One melted-cheese and one condensed milk sandwich and I’m good for the whole day.
Provalone on a Reuben? Blasphemy! It’s always Swiss at Kasa Kalhoun. 
Try this:
Chicken breast
Onion
Avacado
Mayo
Brush the outside of the bread with olive oil and sprinkle with basil. Grill. Oooooh, baby…that’s some good eatin’!!
Oooh, you could grill a tuna sandwich. That’d be pretty good!
With cheese. Then it’s a tuna melt, food of the gods.
Oooh, Spam! You could use it to grill spam, right?
I’ve never tried it, but my dad and my lil bro insist it’s great. For some reason, I just can’t get myself to eat it, despite having chowed down on MREs, which can occasionally be vile.
Perfectly Normal Beast sandwiches, a few slices of PNB, some Newcumber, a little Fladish sauce, MMMM…
did your Sandwich Maker come to you in a burning chariot, or a significantly safer but less dramatic nonburning chariot?
Flames, baby, flames!
I love the idea of spreading a little olive oil on the bread instead of butter!
Lunch was a triumph, in spite of the soup being tomato rice instead of cream of tomato - used 9-grain bread and some cheddar. Tomorrow I’m stocking our cube cupboard with olive oil, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, freeze-dried basil and coarse ground pepper, and bringing in Harvati, turkey and avocado to stash in the fridge. This is definitely going to improve lunch time around here!
One of these things is not like the others…
We used to do that with something we called a “pan”.
If there’s one thing I learned at university, it’s that there is NOTHING that cannot be made into a delicious toasty with sufficient amounts of hot-sauce. Baked beans, eggs, left over curry, chile, really ANYTHING!
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Though what kind is it ? Does it seal the edges of the toasted sandwiches, or does it just toast the sides ? * Oh wait didn’t see link Yeah you’re good, you can put ANYTHING in those without (much) fear of the contents leaking out over your kitchen.
Luddite!
Did you get the arthur dent model?
::d&r::
I use small whole wheat tortillas in my sandwich maker instead of bread. Home made hotpocket like thingies.
I’ve done leftover chicken stir fry - it was delicious!
Meat loaf with cheese; ham, swiss, and pickle; leftover beef stew.