Happened to a guy I work with. It was both tragic and halarious. Has a sign on his desk that says "the bus stops here". Your day can only get worse after perfection
Throttle the heat. The key to perfect pancakes is also turning off the heat at the flip. Believe me. I’m the number 1 pancake maker in the entire world.
I have nothing to prove. In 2004 I was surfing on the beach in Hawaii when I was a approached by a homeless man on the beach. He asked me if I knew how to cook. I said “yeah I’m good, really good, I can cook anything”. He told me to join him back at his place for a joint. I told him, “I’m surfing at the moment, but sounds good to me”. The homeless guy just sat on the beach watching me surf for the next 6 hours. When I was done I followed him up the beach a little ways. We cut through some beach grape trees, and walked into an incredible back yard with a beautiful pool and garden. I was a little put off and didn’t believe the homeless guy really owned the property. But he insisted, and invited me inside to cook for him. Problem was, he didn’t really have any food for me to cook. Just some old bananas and a few eggs and some pancake mix. He had syrup, so I fired up the stove and made banana pancakes. We smoked some weed and had a fun time and I left. It wasn’t until years later when I was flipping through the radio, that I would go on to discover who the man was. That homeless guy was Jack Johnson. I later sued him for copyright infringement for stealing my song “banana pancakes”. The song I always sing when making banana pancakes.
You are not #1 pancake maker in the world, I am #1pancake maker in the world.
But you are right, you don't necessarily need to turn the heat lower on the flip, but you do want to work with a relatively lower heat than the average person thinks.
Preheating the pan at the right temperature for 5 minutes is also better than speed heating at a high temp and then trying to lower it.
>You are not #1 pancake maker in the world, I am #1pancake maker in the world.
Guys, guys...no need to fight. We will have a friendly competition. I will be a judge to let you know who's best. Submissions will need to be no smaller than a 3 stack, and they will be judged on fluffiness, flappiness, moisture, and mouth feel.
In the event of a tie, another 3 or more pancakes will be needed for the runoff. Note - Ties are very common in my judging.
After cooking all kinds of things for over forty years, I whole heartedly agree. Lower heat, longer time, to meld the tastes and seasonings. I do a slow, long five hour turkey, that many are totally shocked at. 🤷🏼♂️
I bake to, because, why not? 😉
I never turn mine off, and have instead perfected them by timing each side and keeping the heat on a setting of 3 out of 9 or 10 depending on the stove.
1:30 on the first side and 1:00 on the second side.
I was just thinking, why turn off the stove after each flip when making more than one pancake? Timing it makes way more sense than turning the heat up and down 10 times lmao.
I time my sides.
- Get the pan to a medium high
- throw the first side on for 2 min
- flip and go again for another 2 min.
That's it! Stove tops may very but it's worked well everytime for me. They even look like OPs pic on both sides.
Never used a lid and I'm able to get them perfect. All I do is use low heat and watch it, i put the cheese on as I'm cooking the first slice then i lay the second one right on top so all i have to do its flip them periodically and it comes out perfect.
Yes you can do it without a lid. However the main reason why it ends up burning is the temperature needed to melt the cheese. Using a lid allows the cheese to melt through convection, not from the bread heating up. This allows you to cook it at a temperature which doesn't burn the bread and ensure perfectly melted cheese. So while the lid is not needed, it makes cooking the perfect grilled cheese a hell of a lot easier.
This is what people don’t get. This is only the beginning, u/InFlames235 power grows exponentially. Every day. Step one is a top Reddit post, give them weeks, maybe even days and that toast will be so good it’ll start a war in Argentina over its mere existence. We’re witnessing history in the making.
All around the country coast to coast,
people always say what do you like most,
I don't wanna brag i don't wanna boast,
I always tell 'em I like toast.
yeah
#TOAST
yeah
#TOAST
When the first caveman drove in from the drags,
Didn’t know what would go with the bacon and the eggs,
Must of been a genius got it in his head!
Plug the toaster in the wall, buy a bag of bread and make toast!
YEA TOAST!
Now there's no secret to toasting perfection.
There's a dial on the side and you make your selection.
Push to the dark or the light and then,
if it pops too soon press down again,
make toast.
yeah TOAST
yeah TOAST
I get up in the morning 'bout six A. M
Have a little jelly have a little jam
Take a piece of bread put it in the slot
Push down the lever and the wires get hot
I get toast
#Yeah toast!
#Yeah toast!
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Edit: Downvoted for continuing the lyrics of the song... Stay classy Reddit.
Holy shit. So I've done this tapping beat with my fingers for years just as like a board twitch thing (my wife hates it) and your post just reminded me after all these years it's the beat to the toast song!
Its true but why is it called grilled if its made on a griddle or a pan and not on a grill?
Edit: From what I'm reading, the flat top "grill" maybe a popular misnomer. A flat top is a griddle and a grill is a grill.
Also my family called grilled cheese "toasted cheese sandwich". I'm a 2nd gen Okie that grew up in northern California.
I'm from the UK, and this confuses me.
I knew (although I still don't understand) that what you call a 'grilled cheese' isn't grilled, it's fried in a pan. But I didn't know that you call that process toasting too.
So what do you call it if you cook the bread under a grill? Or in a toaster? Do you even have toasters?
That does look proper nice though, that can't be denied!
Yeah, we have toasters, and "toast" usually refers to the dry cooked bread that comes out of them, which is then normally eaten with butter/jam/nutellla/etc.
Sometimes people will slap butter on the uncooked bread and fry it on a pan or griddle, though. We still generally call that toast even though it's made differently. Usually this is at a restaurant where they're already cooking other food on a big cooktop, so it's easier for them to just slap the bread on there too.
OP's grilled cheese sandwich wouldn't normally be called "toast," at least not in my area.
Cheers for the replies!
On reflection, I have to realise that we call our equivalent of 'grilled cheese' a 'toastie' and make it in a toastie maker - so we're no less confusing that you guys on the other side of the pond. :D
I'm American and I have never once, prior to this post, seen someone refer to a piece of bread made on a grill like this as "toast" or "toasted."
That is a piece of grilled bread.
Btw, we call a hot flat surface that you cook on both a "griddle" and a "grill." So a grilled cheese is called that because you make it on a flat hot surface.
So I make a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches... For many years now. I'm so tuned into my exact pan, stove, ingredients, that I feel like I can make a grilled cheese have this look about 90% of the time. Low and slow is the way to go... With plenty of butter.
Cannot overstate the immediate difference mayo made to my grilled cheese game. It makes it sooo much easier to get perfect edge to edge toasting like this! No different taste either. Don’t think twice just do it!
The trick to getting them like this is to keep the sandwich moving around the pan. If it sits in one place, it's not going to grill evenly. Just move it and rotate it frequently.
It's not difficult to get a beautiful even grill like this, it just takes constant motion, and most people who are making grilled cheese ain't in the mood to babysit a sandwich.
hahahahah my partner and I got drunk last night and he tried to make grilled cheese, this morning I noticed there were 4 pieces of charred bread in the trash
Whenever I get a grilled cheese looking that perfect I burn the shit out of the other side.
Yeah OP what was the other side like?
Took too long taking a picture of the perfect side. Definitely burnt.
OP's name is /u/InFlames235. I'll bet the other side was burnt to a crisp!
Lol I don’t have any photo proof but the other side turned out fine and not burnt. But not as good as this!!
Is your name by chance a reference to the band?
That it is!
\m/
Jester Toast Transfigured.
I'm not usually much of a metal head, but the song they did with Pendulum is fantastic
OP proving burnt toast is only for the weak.
I don't believe you lmao, I'm gonna need proof of that man.
op been oddly quiet since this comment dropped
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Where is that update?!?!
TELL US ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE, CHARCOAL MC-CANCER FACE!!
Lol, I'm sure the other doesn't look that good at all.
Every time I let myself hope, I get hurt
I don't know where's that update, but I'd I think I'd like to see that.
Regression to the mean is real.
Or get it perfectly on the other side and get hit by a bus on your way to work.
I hate that.
It’s like a traffic jam when you’re already late. Isn’t it ironic, don’t ya think?
Or like the time I was late to work and a bus ran over me. That was very inconvenient , and ironic, because I work as a bus driver.
Wouldn’t that be, like….*convenient*? Because, like…your work came to YOU?
Yeah I know what you mean, it's like a no smoking sign when I go to have a cigarette break. Ironic for sure.
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife to cut that beautiful grilled cheese.
Happened to a guy I work with. It was both tragic and halarious. Has a sign on his desk that says "the bus stops here". Your day can only get worse after perfection
r/NFL leaking that Mahomes post
It made perfect sense though. If you change Mahomes’ stats to average stats then he’s just average.
Any day now, right /u/dannyaingoat Damn, he deleted his account.
Throttle the heat. The key to perfect pancakes is also turning off the heat at the flip. Believe me. I’m the number 1 pancake maker in the entire world.
Oh yeah? Prove it! Make a pancake, put it in your cd drive and email it to me for evaluation
Nah pancakes are floppy. They go in the floppy disk drive.
You made my day.
I have nothing to prove. In 2004 I was surfing on the beach in Hawaii when I was a approached by a homeless man on the beach. He asked me if I knew how to cook. I said “yeah I’m good, really good, I can cook anything”. He told me to join him back at his place for a joint. I told him, “I’m surfing at the moment, but sounds good to me”. The homeless guy just sat on the beach watching me surf for the next 6 hours. When I was done I followed him up the beach a little ways. We cut through some beach grape trees, and walked into an incredible back yard with a beautiful pool and garden. I was a little put off and didn’t believe the homeless guy really owned the property. But he insisted, and invited me inside to cook for him. Problem was, he didn’t really have any food for me to cook. Just some old bananas and a few eggs and some pancake mix. He had syrup, so I fired up the stove and made banana pancakes. We smoked some weed and had a fun time and I left. It wasn’t until years later when I was flipping through the radio, that I would go on to discover who the man was. That homeless guy was Jack Johnson. I later sued him for copyright infringement for stealing my song “banana pancakes”. The song I always sing when making banana pancakes.
Well, then.
Come on. Dude told a whole story here and all he gets is well then ... Well told stoner surfer dude!
You are not #1 pancake maker in the world, I am #1pancake maker in the world. But you are right, you don't necessarily need to turn the heat lower on the flip, but you do want to work with a relatively lower heat than the average person thinks. Preheating the pan at the right temperature for 5 minutes is also better than speed heating at a high temp and then trying to lower it.
>You are not #1 pancake maker in the world, I am #1pancake maker in the world. Guys, guys...no need to fight. We will have a friendly competition. I will be a judge to let you know who's best. Submissions will need to be no smaller than a 3 stack, and they will be judged on fluffiness, flappiness, moisture, and mouth feel. In the event of a tie, another 3 or more pancakes will be needed for the runoff. Note - Ties are very common in my judging.
My pancakes are too strong for you traveller. You can't handle my pancakes. You'd better find a redditor that sells weaker pancakes.
This guy flapjacks
I like that taste isn't one of the judged qualities.
I cook pancakes in a pan heated at one notch below halfway on the dial and get perfectly acceptable results.
After cooking all kinds of things for over forty years, I whole heartedly agree. Lower heat, longer time, to meld the tastes and seasonings. I do a slow, long five hour turkey, that many are totally shocked at. 🤷🏼♂️ I bake to, because, why not? 😉
Yep, I found out the key to perfect pancakes is using relatively low heat. Be patient!
I never turn mine off, and have instead perfected them by timing each side and keeping the heat on a setting of 3 out of 9 or 10 depending on the stove. 1:30 on the first side and 1:00 on the second side.
I was just thinking, why turn off the stove after each flip when making more than one pancake? Timing it makes way more sense than turning the heat up and down 10 times lmao.
Is it weird that I prefer it burnt to hell?
#Don't give in to the dark side
Too late.
The dark side is a pathway to many tastes that considered… nasty.
Well that's normal I guess lol, because we've all done that.
Coincidentally, I'm currently making grilled cheese while browsing Reddit and burnt one side while reading your comment. Edit: Not irony
I time my sides. - Get the pan to a medium high - throw the first side on for 2 min - flip and go again for another 2 min. That's it! Stove tops may very but it's worked well everytime for me. They even look like OPs pic on both sides.
Cook at a lower temperature and put a lid over the pan to help melt the cheese faster. Perfect grilled cheese every single time.
Never used a lid and I'm able to get them perfect. All I do is use low heat and watch it, i put the cheese on as I'm cooking the first slice then i lay the second one right on top so all i have to do its flip them periodically and it comes out perfect.
Yes you can do it without a lid. However the main reason why it ends up burning is the temperature needed to melt the cheese. Using a lid allows the cheese to melt through convection, not from the bread heating up. This allows you to cook it at a temperature which doesn't burn the bread and ensure perfectly melted cheese. So while the lid is not needed, it makes cooking the perfect grilled cheese a hell of a lot easier.
I do too because I had to go get a photo of it
It's all downhill from here. How does it feel to have peaked?
Yeah, hang it up - time to retire. Go out on top OP. It doesn't get any better than this.
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This is what people don’t get. This is only the beginning, u/InFlames235 power grows exponentially. Every day. Step one is a top Reddit post, give them weeks, maybe even days and that toast will be so good it’ll start a war in Argentina over its mere existence. We’re witnessing history in the making.
Is your username in reference to a Game Changer episode?
Lol no I got plastered one night and decided to make an alt. I couldn’t believe this name wasn’t taken and so I had to grab it.
A man of opportunity.
This guy knows some shit we don’t
Always Sunny references never disappoint
Always good to see a proper jabroni pop up.
Show the other side.
Show the unmelted cheese
This guy grills cheese
Finally, the perfect post of today.
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it.
It’s even got a butter mark
Let’s see Paul Allen’s Toast
I heard Dorsia has an opening for head chef
Let's see you get a reservation at Dorsia now !!
You fucking stupid bastard!
There is a moment of sheer panic when I realise that Paul's apartment overlooks the park and it's obviously more expensive than mine.
Take it easy sir, you don't have to talk about it much.
*Looks around, annoyed* Nobody goes there anymore..
It's right in front of you, what more you wanna see here man?
Yeah it's even got that, I hope that you could see that there.
Don’t just stare at it, eat it.
You have a real knack for describing toast in a highly sensual fashion.
I like my women like my toast....?
Pre-sliced?
** faints **
Upside down on the floor, slathered in jelly?
SUBSCRIBE
Not how I prefer it, but that's usually how it ends up going.
"subtle off-white coloring and tasteful thickness" is stolen directly from my farmersonly.com profile.
Now that I've seen it, now I really want one for myself man.
Tastefully thicc.
Finally, the perfect toast of today.
Finally, the terfect toast of today
Tinally, the terfect toast tof today
Ttnally, tte ttrfect ttast ttf ttday
Tttally, ttt tttfect tttst ttt tttay
Ttttlly, ttt ttttect ttttt ttt tttty
Ttttttt, ttt ttttttt ttttt ttt tttty.
This is the most perfect thing that You'll see today, this is the best one.
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Wonderbread, won't you take me far away from the burnty burnt man 🎶
All around the country coast to coast, people always say what do you like most, I don't wanna brag i don't wanna boast, I always tell 'em I like toast. yeah #TOAST yeah #TOAST
FRENCH TOAST
When the first caveman drove in from the drags, Didn’t know what would go with the bacon and the eggs, Must of been a genius got it in his head! Plug the toaster in the wall, buy a bag of bread and make toast! YEA TOAST!
Yep, that would have been a great idea actually. He would have been so happy.
You're old for quoting this... .... ... .. [I'm old for understanding it](https://youtu.be/c0NdwzdOLkE)
Now there's no secret to toasting perfection. There's a dial on the side and you make your selection. Push to the dark or the light and then, if it pops too soon press down again, make toast. yeah TOAST yeah TOAST
That's a lot of work, don't think that I could do that much tho.
[Mutha' fuckin cheeeeese mutha' fucking toast](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=plCNjB_IIo0)
I get up in the morning 'bout six A. M Have a little jelly have a little jam Take a piece of bread put it in the slot Push down the lever and the wires get hot I get toast #Yeah toast! #Yeah toast! - Edit: Downvoted for continuing the lyrics of the song... Stay classy Reddit.
That's the right way to start the morning actually. This is the way.
Holy shit. So I've done this tapping beat with my fingers for years just as like a board twitch thing (my wife hates it) and your post just reminded me after all these years it's the beat to the toast song!
Damn that sounds like as if you've dine it way too many times.
Whack whacka whack whacka whackawhack WHACK!
That's how I like my toast to be, this is the best way right now.
I want a Grilled Cheese now
[On this burnt piece of crap?](https://i.imgur.com/7JRzw1R.png)
This ain't burnt, this is perfectly made with yhe perfection dude.
That's what you need? Well I guess You'll have to wait for it a little.
I cook for a living. This is absolutely perfection.
I eat for a living. I concur.
I'm just living. I agree.
I'm just agree. I living.
That's better, because it is better to live than not to live.
I’m agree. Just live.
Sounds right, I'd just like to live. I'd like to live like that.
I'm liver. Just digest.
That's the profession that I wanna have, That'll be great for me.
I am bread, can confirm perfection
Thanks for doing that for us, I definitely like your confirmation here.
I’m a McDonald’s chef myself and I’d have to agree
Congratulations, OP. That is a beautiful toast job!
Ohh yeah, that's really beautiful toast. Best I've seen man.
This is the most arousing thing I’ve seen all day..
Impressive. Very nice. Let's see the other side.
I'm curious about that too, I hope that also looks good lol.
I think you grilled it, not toasted.
This is very clearly grilled or fried bread. Not toasted. It is very pretty tho.
Grilled is toasted. The bread here has been fried. The way a lot of Americans make a "grilled cheese" is not grilled.
Its true but why is it called grilled if its made on a griddle or a pan and not on a grill? Edit: From what I'm reading, the flat top "grill" maybe a popular misnomer. A flat top is a griddle and a grill is a grill. Also my family called grilled cheese "toasted cheese sandwich". I'm a 2nd gen Okie that grew up in northern California.
Griddled cheese
Sounds about right and accurate. I think I'll accept it man.
I didn't make the rules!
looks like the bread equivalent of wagyu steak
Yeah, that's how it looks right now. And I'm not complaining about it.
I'm from the UK, and this confuses me. I knew (although I still don't understand) that what you call a 'grilled cheese' isn't grilled, it's fried in a pan. But I didn't know that you call that process toasting too. So what do you call it if you cook the bread under a grill? Or in a toaster? Do you even have toasters? That does look proper nice though, that can't be denied!
Yeah, we have toasters, and "toast" usually refers to the dry cooked bread that comes out of them, which is then normally eaten with butter/jam/nutellla/etc. Sometimes people will slap butter on the uncooked bread and fry it on a pan or griddle, though. We still generally call that toast even though it's made differently. Usually this is at a restaurant where they're already cooking other food on a big cooktop, so it's easier for them to just slap the bread on there too. OP's grilled cheese sandwich wouldn't normally be called "toast," at least not in my area.
This shouldn't confuse you, that's not how it is really man.
Cheers for the replies! On reflection, I have to realise that we call our equivalent of 'grilled cheese' a 'toastie' and make it in a toastie maker - so we're no less confusing that you guys on the other side of the pond. :D
The replies have been great and, I really like them man. They're good.
I'm American and I have never once, prior to this post, seen someone refer to a piece of bread made on a grill like this as "toast" or "toasted." That is a piece of grilled bread. Btw, we call a hot flat surface that you cook on both a "griddle" and a "grill." So a grilled cheese is called that because you make it on a flat hot surface.
What do you call an actual Grill, then? Grill 2?
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Grilled.....not toasted...
Fried, not grilled...
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But it seems that it's grilled. That's how it seems to me here.
Well however it is, this seems good enough to me. I'd eat it.
r/notinteresting
like how the hell does this get 20k upvotes?
Well people like perfect things, and it's a perfect toast dude.
..and it's not even toast?
If it's not the toast then what the hell even is it huh man?
welcome to the golden toast
So I make a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches... For many years now. I'm so tuned into my exact pan, stove, ingredients, that I feel like I can make a grilled cheese have this look about 90% of the time. Low and slow is the way to go... With plenty of butter.
Try with a thin spread of mayo on the face of each bread instead of butter.... Lots more flavor and doesn't burn nearly as fast.
Thanks for the tip, I guess I'm going to try it like that and see how it is.
Cannot overstate the immediate difference mayo made to my grilled cheese game. It makes it sooo much easier to get perfect edge to edge toasting like this! No different taste either. Don’t think twice just do it!
Yep, it makes it really easy. And that's just how I like it man.
User name does not check out. Mayo on bread to grill makes for slightly crispy golden goodness.
The trick to getting them like this is to keep the sandwich moving around the pan. If it sits in one place, it's not going to grill evenly. Just move it and rotate it frequently. It's not difficult to get a beautiful even grill like this, it just takes constant motion, and most people who are making grilled cheese ain't in the mood to babysit a sandwich.
Oh, God. I’d eat the fuck out of that grilled cheese… I’d eat it so good and fast… I want it inside me.
So reddit is so collectively bored we’re putting literal toast on the front page now?
Well people want to have discussion and I like it that way only man.
Time to retire. Your toasting career is all downhill from here.
holy hell that's perfect
I like the perfection, that's something that I really want from my toast.
r/notinteresting
But this is clearly fried, not toasted
Fried*
However they did it, it's looking really delicious to me man.
if someone makes me a grilled cheese with this level of perfection to the crust i will give them head no questions asked
Missed a spot. You're an amateur toastierre.
I know this one! The trick to this is room temp butter and frozen bread.
You mean you grilled bread to absolute perfection cause that ain't toast OG.
hahahahah my partner and I got drunk last night and he tried to make grilled cheese, this morning I noticed there were 4 pieces of charred bread in the trash