Redditor Apprehensive-Wolf999 asked:
"How do you add a little razzle dazzle to a grilled cheese sandwich?"
Anti-Vampire Version
"Butter the bread with garlic butter."
- NotNinjalord5
"Roasted garlic butter!"
"You can take a clove and mash it into butter, then spread it on the bread."
- Meowmers246
GiphyGrating
"Unpopular opinion here, but if you grate the cheese it melts a lot better than if you do slices."
- Parks-G
Patience Is A Virtue
"Just cooking it properly makes all the difference."
"Low and slow."
"Cooking it fast and hard just makes a toasted cheese sandwich."
- Cmonredditalready
"Everyone in college used to hate the cafeteria food. Except me."
"They had grilled cheese down to a science and I have not been able to get a grilled cheese that good anywhere else."
- CasualDNDPlayer
"It's the even heat of a giant grill."
- Cmonredditalready
GiphyIndian Touch
"I put some Indian mango pickle in there."
- crispyfade
A Bit Of Pep
"Black pepper, I'm telling you it just makes a difference. And a damn good one."
- AnaDicoski
"Oh yea! Total gamechanger for me!"
- mibuikus
GiphyMix It Up
"Swap cheeses."
More bite? Sharp cheddar. Spice? Pepper jack. More creamy? Swiss."
"Mix and match to dial in your perfect flavor. Just be careful if you experiment with softer cheeses."
- JanxAngel
Cheesy Crispy Crust
"Add some parmesan cheese to the outside."
"You start by having enough fat (butter, margarine, mayo, whatever your preference is) on the outside of the bread that the parmesan will stick.
"Also, don't blast it with heat; keep the heat low so that the bread and the cheese toast nicely. This also helps with getting the cheese on the inside to melt."
- GrumpyCatStevens
"I melt the cheese in the pan, similar to making a crisp, and drop the bread on it as soon as it starts to melt."
"Depending on the timing, I'll sometimes cook the sandwich most of the way and drop it into the toasting cheese."
- hobbesx
GiphyChange It Up
"Change bread."
"My go to is sourdough, but rye and pumpernickel can give good results, just be sure to balance your cheese choices against the stronger flavors."
"Nothing says both slices have to be the same bread either."
- JanxAngel
Bread or Cheese?
"Multiple fancy cheeses."
- y2k_zeitgeist
"Honestly the bread is more important than the cheese, and if you choose the wrong cheese you get a greasy mess."
"Low moisture cheeses like Gouda work well."
- Due-Cartographer-702
"Cheese is most certainly more important than the bread."
- GarbageTheClown
"I would like to argue that both are equally important."
- beepboopdata
GiphyJust The Right Surface
"Cook it in a cast iron pan."
"Turn the heat on 3. Let it heat up for a few minutes."
"Put a generous pat of real butter in the pan, not on the bread."
"Let it melt then put the sandwich on top of the melted butter."
- JanxAngel
About That Blend
"I'm a big fan of really sharp cheeses, so I like mixing Old Croc aged white cheddar, parmesan, and either Kerrygold white cheddar or Vermont sharp white cheddar."
- Ashley9225
"My go to has been a Cheddar-Gruyere."
- Jallorn
"Not exactly 'fancy', but recently I did 2 slices kraft singles, along with a generous layer of shredded cheddar/mozzarella mix."
"Made a huge difference, and the bit of mozzarella gave the cheese a really satisfying slight chewyness to the cheese."
- ill_Skillz
GiphyEggsellent
"Add a fried egg and mayo the insides of the bread."
- Feeling-Insurance-38
Bread Spreads
"I put mustard on the inside of the bread almost all the time."
"Sometimes I have put some homemade pickled onions—well drained."
"Or some diced up pickles—sometimes dill, sometimes kosher dill, sometimes sweet, or sometimes a mix."
"I have never used premade relish though."
- tanukis_parachute
"Grey Poupon is amazing with grilled cheese... take it from me."
- grilldcheese2
GiphyCrunchy Cheese
"Cheese cracker in the middle."
"Take shredded cheese put it on a non stick pan and burn it until it’s a solid cracker."
"Stick that in the middle of 2 regular cheese slices in the sandwich."
"Yum. Also bacon."
- inigos_left_hand
With A Side Of Dipping Soup
"Sourdough bread and a good dill pickle on the side, or a bowl cream of mushroom soup."
- lilfey333
"Tomato soup for us tomato soup people too! Dip the grilled cheese in it and take a bite."
- NathanClaire
"I thought so too, but then I thought about how mozzarella sticks function and started using a little bowl of Lucini Tuscan Marinara Organic Sauce for dipping instead and it’s an upgrade."
- J_Sto
"Sour dough bread. Lots of butter. White cheddar, orange cheddar, Parmesan, and gruyere.
"Add prosciutto and basil too to really kick it up a notch. Cook each side to a nice medium brown."
- TigerMcNicklaus
GiphyRaisins?
"Make it with Swiss cheese & cinnamon raisin bread."
"Trust the process."
- bakedpotat00
Rarebit?
"Worcestershire sauce."
- batmamiam
"You put a few drops inside, on top of the cheese."
"Prepare to achieve nirvana."
- Bull_Goose_Loony
"Spread a little mustard with that and you almost have Welsh rarebit."
- MuscaMurum
GiphyPizza
"Sometimes I make them pizza grilled cheese."
"Mozzarella with pepperoni sammiched between, with some pizza seasoning on the butter as it cooks."
- whyisreplicainmyname
In A Jam
"Pair the right cheese (nice aged white cheddar) with a cranberry jam."
"Adds some sweet and tart to it. It's incredible."
- canuckwithasig
"A cheeser with some jelly is fucking gooooooood. I lay down a challenge any time the topic comes up in conversation."
"Give me any random combo of bread, cheese, and jam/jelly types and I will make it and eat it and it will taste good."
"The most bizarre combo so far I think was Challah with goat cheese and pepper jelly, and it was waaaaaaay tastier than I thought it was gonna be."
- M_TobogganPHD
"We have a wild berry here kind of like a cranberry. We call them partridge berries.
"They make a great semi-sweet and tart jam that works great with an old white cheddar on some nice home made bread."
- canuckwithasig
GiphyIf You Know, You Know
"Commodity cheese will always be the secret to the best grilled cheese ever."
- LakotaGrl
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Salt is good for a lot of things.
Use salt as an abrasive and absorber when cleaning. I spray my stove top with a general household cleaner then sprinkle salt liberally over the top. It gets grease out easily.
For liquid stains like wine, I pour salt over the stain to soak up excess liquid then come through with hydrogen peroxide. Finally I get absorbent towels and dab clean it.
We love a good bleach tip.
GiphyBleach to keep away cockroaches. I used to get big ass cockroaches in the summer that came up my drain.
My exterminator told me to pour 1 cup of bleach down my drain each week. You have to pour it down the drain in the room you see them. I started 18 months ago and haven't seen a cockroach since.
Works like a charm.
Clear nail polish:
- Prevent skin going green from brass
- Permanently stop fabric from fraying
- Same goes with yarn
- Seal paint
The $2 quick dry stuff is the best for me.
Good tip for scuba divers.
Scuba diver here. Instead of using those expensive defogger gels and sprays on your mask, smear a bunch of dish soap in it, rinse once or twice, and your mask will never fog during the dive.
You can also use this method to keep your windshield from fogging. Smear a bunch of dish soap on a towel, then rub it all over the inside of your windshield. Take another damp towel and rub the soap off until your wind shield is clear. I did this 3 weeks ago and have not had to defog a single time since.
Oh HELL no.
GiphyShaving foam reduces\stops misting on bathroom mirrors and car windows.
You can also use it to write creepy text like "I died here" or "I'm watching you" on mirrors of other people's bathrooms. When done right it will be pretty much invisible normally but the text will show up when someone is taking a bath/shower and the mirror fogs up.
Well would you look at that.
Toilet seat covers are the same as blotting paper for oily skin.
This. This is my favorite one so far. Those papers are EXPENSIVE.
That darn pine sap.
Any kind of cooking oil will easily get pine sap off of your hands. Just use it like soap.
Coffee hack.
GiphyIf you have a French press for coffee, you can also froth milk in it after. Pour in hot milk and raise and lower the plunger until the volume of the milk has about doubled.
Not my channel, but plugging for James Hoffman. If you like coffee, and want to explore the utter depths of the world of coffee, coffee gear, coffee science in a super chill and informative way, check him out!
Sticker residue is the worst.
Any cooking oil is a great way to remove the residue from stickers.
Idk if this is recommended but if you get scratches on wood furniture I've always taken a matching washable marker, colored over the scratch, and then wiped it with a damp cloth (to effectively stain the wood back to match).
Good to know!
Clean mascara wands are used in animal shelters to soothe the animals by brushing, and to remove fly eggs and larva from fur.
Can I actually send them my old mascara wands?
Yes there are bird rescues that will take them. They just don't want you buying clean ones because that will just contribute to plastic production and they're hoping to just keep used ones from the landfill.
Gifts are a common tradition, but man, wrapping them is so hard.
How do you make sure it always looks great? What do you do if you cut the paper a little too short?
Luckily, the internet was recently blown away by a wrapping hack that's as simple as it is brilliant.
The video uploaded to Blossom on Facebook, depicts a series of hacks to make your gift wrapping a little easier. With everything from making gift bags out of wrapping, or adding a built-in pocket for a card, the video has a lot of tricks.
But the one that caught the internet by storm is what to do if you cut the paper just a little too short. The answer is a simple tilt.
Yes.
It's that simple.
The Blossom video is the source of the clip, but it gained a lot more attention after being shared on Twitter by user Waterstones.
Unfortunately, it has since been removed, due to a copyright claim.
Still, Twitter is where the internet had their minds blown.
@Waterstones What kind of sorcery is this? And why did no one tell me sooner? (All those years of wasted wrapping… https://t.co/q7PM5v2t5Y— Don'tMakeMeStopThisCar (@Don'tMakeMeStopThisCar) 1576512918.0
@Waterstones I was a bookseller for 3 years, wrapped about a million books, and I did not know this. I feel embarrassed and ashamed.— Sam Copeland (@Sam Copeland) 1576499230.0
@Waterstones I spent the last hour and some change crumpling up & taping down some gift wrap when it’s been this si… https://t.co/RdaqMAQS5T— TheMelanatedIntrovert (@TheMelanatedIntrovert) 1576556930.0
@Waterstones @Hippiepig https://t.co/LgHtU0tViS— Richard Stone (@Richard Stone) 1576500019.0
Maybe if you understood geometry, this hack was already your choice of wrapping.
The rest of us are just excited to have an answer when we make a mistake.
Then again, some math people didn't get it right away either.
@andrewhuang @Waterstones That explains why this never occurred to me.— FlyingSock〽️onkey (@FlyingSock〽️onkey) 1576521734.0
@FrenchBiche @Waterstones I think, you have just forgotten to rotate diagonally. https://t.co/Hy0RDJyLNM— dbg (@dbg) 1576603112.0
@CucamongaDuke @Waterstones i don't have ocd but it really bothered me so i was scrolling through the comments to s… https://t.co/uplZL9mtlo— ジョセリン.愛♡ (@ジョセリン.愛♡) 1576563119.0
@Waterstones https://t.co/hpqe88poAO— Irfon Williams (@Irfon Williams) 1576495982.0
Maybe this hack is too-little-too-late for you this year, but keep this article bookmarked.
Who knows?
You might find it helpful for a birthday party.
And a hanging caddylike the Primode Hanging Gift Wrap Storage Bag with Detachable Accessory Tote, available here, for all of your wrapping needs could make Christmas clean-up or keeping that all occasion paper handy for the rest of the year simpler too.
A group of Australian friends uploaded a video of themselves getting just that, though: They figured out how to trick a McDonald's self-service machine into giving them a free burger.
A video the friends uploaded to YouTube shows that they selected the $1 hamburger option from the menu and asked for 10 of them.
"We'll have ten of these and we'll customize them so we don't want a regular beef patty so that takes $1.10 off our order, off our dollar hamburger," said a voice behind the camera.
The group then added one regular hamburger to the order.
"10 pattyless burgers, one regular hamburger, oh we get our discounts, that's pretty good," the voice says.
Removing the the hamburger patty from each sandwich discounts $1.10 from each burger. Because the hamburgers themselves only cost $1, this gives them a 10 cents credit for each burger. Do this 10 times, and they get a $1 credit on their order.
The group's cameraman selects a $1 hamburger with the patty and adds that to his cart, a move that leaves him with one free burger.
The group shows off their bounty at the end of the video.
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A genius move? Or too much work? It's certainly gotten people intrigued, that's for sure.
Ninja coulda ate free McDonald’s forever BUT he HADDDDDD to go viral. Sometimes you just gotta stfu and take the wi… https://t.co/6dzXv6Wl2K— MaliQue (@MaliQue) 1554781342.0
fallout: hacking skill https://t.co/kaay9Jrtd0— EL (@EL) 1554781533.0
Now THAT'S McValue! Friends score a free McDonald's burger by tricking the self-serve computer using a little-known… https://t.co/5OIu85vO7N— The Glove (@The Glove) 1554715086.0
Others were just bummed that this only works in Australia.
@TheSun I'll just buy a ticket to Australia so I can get a free burger then, you tw@s— Lillybeck Rachel (@Lillybeck Rachel) 1554781843.0
Still others felt that McDonald's should pay them for the free QA they had just provided.
@mashable In the same way security experts should be consulted when they discover flaws, McD's should reward these… https://t.co/kBOYQ2Gu5s— Ruby and Riesling (@Ruby and Riesling) 1554733989.0
Two legends https://t.co/Ys86xdCFIx— Victor Muisyo (@Victor Muisyo) 1554731670.0
Sounds about right.
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Too late!
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They're lovin' it.
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So THAT's what it was all about.
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The future is now.