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Tyler Florence's Favorite Bread for Grilled Cheese
08.05.2024 - 00:01 / bhg.com / Karla Walsh
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Everyone has their go-to way to customize a grilled cheese—whether it's spreading on jam or adding your favorite veggies. The BHG Test Kitchen has experimented with quite a few recipes over the years, and we’ve picked up even more grilled cheese hacks from chefs and on social media that have upgraded our sandwich game along the way. (Why haven’t we been using grilled halloumi all along, by the way?!)
The latest pro tip came from an unexpected place—and it involves a hot take on the best bread for grilled cheese that you probably would have never predicted.
Since fall 2022, Tyler Florence has been taking time out from his schedule as a restauranteur and host of The Great Food Truck Race to co-host the Two Dudes in a Kitchen podcast with his pal Wells Adams, who rose to fame as the bartender on Bachelor in Paradise and is now the host of Hulu’s Best in Dough.
The “Cheesy Goodness” episode of the duo’s podcast focuses solely on a topic that always makes us melt. You guessed it: Grilled cheese.
To kick it off, Florence took us on a culinary tour of grilled cheese variations, like French croque monsieur and madame, Welsh rarebit, Venezuelan arepa de queso, Australian “tiger toast,” and Italian panini.
“The idea of cheese and bread is not an American thing necessarily, although I think we do it very well,” he says.
So how do you make a “really good grilled cheese,” according to Florence? By making wise choices in the following categories.
A nonstick or cast-iron skillet is a common choice for cooking grilled cheeses, but Florence gets frustrated by this since it can only crank out one sandwich at a time.
To make grilled cheese sandwiches for a crowd, Florence
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