What makes the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich?




San Francisco Chronicle Food & Home - Spoken Edition show

Summary: Tuck some cheese between two slices of bread, cook until the bread is crisp and the cheese is melted, and voila! — you’ve got yourself a grilled cheese sandwich. There may be no such thing as bad grilled cheese, but like so many seemingly simple dishes, the devil’s in the details. Achieving golden crisp and gooey nirvana can be harder than it looks. So what constitutes a truly superior grilled cheese sandwich? Well, it depends on whom you ask. For Michael Davidson, a.k.a.