What purpose does American cheese serve? What problem does it solve?

  • Hegar
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    410 months ago

    Taiwanese breakfast food.

    Those brilliant bastards made me buy american cheese, on purpose, to eat.

    Danbing is made with a chewy rice flour crepe, very thin. Crack an egg on a frying pan. Break the yolk with chopsticks and swirl a bit. Mixed but still distinct, not scrambled. Put the crepe on top. Fry the egg a bit. Flip. Put american cheese on top of the egg. Let the crepe side cook a bit while the ‘cheese’ starts to melt. Roll it up. Slice the roll so the cross section is 3 spirals of chewy crepe, fried egg and melted cheese. Eat by the slice.

    I don’t know why american cheese makes it better but it really does. Real actual cheese that’s good just isn’t as good for danbing.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal
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      310 months ago

      American cheese is good for melting, either in hot sandwich-like dishes, or as a sauce additive. If it melts, american cheese will probably be nice in it.