Rye bread with margarine spread on all sides.
Muenster cheese with a dollop of sugar free apricot preserves.
Toasted then baked at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

Italian Bread with provolone(or cheddar) cheese
Butter spread(made from olive oil or similar) on all sides
Fried in a skillet for around 5-7 minutes

"Butter spread", margarine.
Tf is wrong with you people.

Being poor sometimes plays a factor, and/or people's differing tastes as well.
Btw I meant actual butter, it's just blended with oil so as to make it easier to spread/etc.
(I also have butter in stick form, but it's a pain to spread unless one thaws it first)

Put some ketchup on the bread, followed by some chopped onions and sliced mushrooms, add a desired amount of capers and jalapeños, then cover the whole thing with cheese, and finally grind some five pepper spice on top of that.

Heat it until the cheese is evenly melted.

Eat and enjoy.

Fried bread with cheese is just such an american thing :D.

I have American friends who talk wistfully about childhood days when their mother fried some bread with cheese for them as a snack or meal, and I just think "Wow...just so...fat".

Cheese is arelady oily.... you can see the fat come out of it when you heat it up. So why do you need to put fat on fat? butter / spread has it's uses, but on a cheese something it only takes away from the taste of the cheese.

You've never heard of Croque Monsieur?

Well you could cook without it, if you want the bread to burn. You need to use something to keep it from burning easily....if not butter then some sort of pan spray(PAM is one such brand) to coat the pan you use.

No, toast is a lovely golden brown color and often tastes quite nice with butter and whatnot. I mean totally burned, til it turns the color of a lump of coal(and tastes about the same).

Oh, thanks for this topis))
love grilled cheese

You feel that putting bread on a pan without oil or butter will turn it into a lump of coal?

That's news to me, a person who hasn't owned a toaster in years, and toasts his bread (on the rare occasions that he wishes to) by putting it on a pan without oil, and then flipping it over.

<shudder>