Cras wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Cras wrote:
I'm assuming you mean a toasted cheese sandwich, good sir.
Maybe, but I think most people would think "toasted under a grill" when you say that. Whereas I specifically mean "fried in a pan."
Ah, that must be why you said 'grilled'
If we're going down the road of "discussing all the ways Americans have the wrong food words" we'll be at this a while. We can segue into the non-existent word "broil" for a start.
MrsDoc has no idea why it's called a grilled cheese either. Perhaps a corruption of "griddled"?
Mimi wrote:
Breville toastie maker > Gaywood.
A toasted cheese sandwich made on a Breville basically is a grilled cheese, so actually you're agreeing with me. A cheese sandwich, buttered on the outside, gently fried against a hot surface -- whether the surface is the Breville or a frying pan. Same basic thing. Texturally quite different to the canonical cheese-on-toast, and I prefer it.