Life is crazy right now. I had to rebuild my cell phone today and my wife is craving comfort food with no nutritional value.
All cooking counts if it stops you from paying $5 to $6 for a single grilled cheese and fries at someplace that actually offers that.
Cost per person, $1.20
Phone surgery was a success. New battery and screen. But this is temporary because this model goes EOL next month.
I’ll take American “cheese” on a grilled cheese. I’d prefer cheddar on sourdough, though.
I will pretty much take any version other than this. Normally I make the bread and use cheddar.
I don’t care for the cheap “cheese”, but I will absolutely love American cheese - proper American cheese, which you can get from any grocery deli - rather than Kraft singles.
In my 60 American years, I believe my only experience with “American” cheese has been singles (Kraft or similar). I don’t like those at all.
What’s the distinction with the stuff in the deli?
It’s a softer cheddar basically, still melts very well. I use it to melt uncooperative cheeses
If it’s real, it should be colby and jack, not cheddar. That said, you can add sodium citrate to basically any meltable cheese to give it the same quality - as that’s how they make it (from coldy and jack) :)
Colby-jack is a different cheese
Thank you!
Real “American” cheese was originally and still typically is colby and jack, gently melted, with sodium citrate added, which is what changes the texture completely and makes it nice and melty.
Kraft singles are designed to mimic this - and whatever, they are what they are, but a proper American cheese will be as tasty as the cheese it’s made from. And technically, you can make your own - with any meltable cheese - although I probably never would. Difficult to get a loaf of it at a proper size to slice, difficult to slice… heh
To me, even a good American cheese is really better in a grilled cheese or on a burger or whatever. It’s fine to snack on, but if I’m snacking on cheese, I’m going to the cheese shop and spending way too much money on tasty little morsels :)
Thanks for this. I’ll check out the deli and see what I can find.
I think I’ll agree with your third paragraph regardless.
Kraft singles and American cheese are different things.