Comments on: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with a clothes iron.

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with a clothes iron.

mrkredo — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:17:06 -0800

on how to grill cheese sandwiches using a clothes iron.

By: mrkredo

mrkredo — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:18:01 -0800

My first post, and of course i screwed up. Can someone please fix 'experiment'?

By: wakko

wakko — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:20:02 -0800

Well, the third sandwich looks (and apparently tastes) enough like 'excrement' that 'exprement' isn't too far off.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:26:15 -0800

You're thinking that iron is too dirty to use again for clothes, right? Next: How to smooth out those wrinkled shirts with a toaster.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:31:29 -0800

I've known about this trick for 20 years. But I heard you're supposed to wrap the sandwhich in tinfoil first.

By: TungstenChef

TungstenChef — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:36:37 -0800

I always wrapped the iron rather than the sandwhich in foil, makes for some great Cubanos.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:41:11 -0800

I always wrap my head in tinfoil. That way, the gubmint can't beam it's programming into my brain from the iron.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:52:37 -0800

I think I first saw this done in a movie.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:53:02 -0800

I was expecting the experimenter to be a college student, not a retiree.

By: rhymer

rhymer — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:53:40 -0800

I'm with orange swan here. Isn't this just something that's widely known reconfigured for the internet? BTW, another wrinkle on this is to cook food on your engine while you drive: works very well for fish, assuming you wrap it securelu in foil.

By: rhymer

rhymer — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:56:09 -0800

Indeed, the retiree bit is novel. I blame the endless adolescence that today's culture has engendered. If you've still got a playstation in your 40s, you'll be grilling sandwiches with appliances in your 60s.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:02:02 -0800

Mmm, I love it when my freshly pressed shirts smell like cheese, toast and butter!

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:13:59 -0800

I also thought you were supposed to wrap the iron in foil. And now I'm jonesing a cubano. Along the same lines as the cooking on your engine (I think a book called Manifold Cookbook was all about this) my dad used to cook fish in his dishwasher. No dishes or soap - just fish. He saw it done on the Tonight Show in the early 70's and swore it was the best way to cook fish. Obviously this was a "post-divorce" craze at his apartment.

By: lunalaguna

lunalaguna — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:38:45 -0800

You can also warm up food using the heating plate on a coffee maker. This is especially helpful for cooking ramen in a hotel room (if that room happens to have a coffee maker).

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:39:55 -0800

Don't use steam, that's for sure.

By: gurple

gurple — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:40:06 -0800

I was expecting the experimenter to be a college student, not a retiree. I had the same moment of surprise when I saw his picture. Then I felt like an ageist prick. Man wants to grill some cheese with an iron, man oughta be allowed to grill some cheese with an iron, even if he was probably already 50 when Benny & Joon came out.

By: itchylick

itchylick — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:47:31 -0800

I think I first saw this done in a movie. Good catch. Reminds me of the first link in this thread.

By: greycap

greycap — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:51:50 -0800

On a similar theme, frying bacon with an iron, and boiling pasta using a kettle. [embedded video in both links]

By: TTNoelle

TTNoelle — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:06:01 -0800

Though Johnny Depp did make the sandwiches with much flare, he got the recipe from this guy .

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:06:30 -0800

I think I first saw this done in a movie. Me too

By: mrkredo

mrkredo — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:10:10 -0800

I just got an email from autor of this page. They are afraif for their bandwith...

By: Keith Talent

Keith Talent — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:17:28 -0800

You can also warm up food using the heating plate on a coffee maker. This is especially helpful for cooking ramen in a hotel room (if that room happens to have a coffee maker). This sounds awfully like living in a minimum security prision rather than a hotel.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:23:55 -0800

No mention of cooking hot dogs by plugging them into an electrical outlet? (I don't recommend this -- you can throw a breaker, shock or burn yourself because of variations in conductivity of the hot dog, and it doesn't actually cook them very well.)

By: mkultra

mkultra — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:26:09 -0800

Someone should tell Jason "Kevin Mitnick of Popcorn" Kottke about this hot tip.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:28:10 -0800

(Oh, and it can corrode the tips of the leads that you insert into the ends of the hot dogs which, depending on what you use, could result in your ingesting some pretty unwholesome metal residues when you eat the result.)

By: gimonca

gimonca — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:42:05 -0800

Meh. I just spray my sandwiches with Febreze.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:54:47 -0800

I once had a jazz history professor tell the story of some dude who traveled a lot with a big band in the fifties, who didn't get paid well and who could cook a chicken with an iron, and would, regularly.

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:18:34 -0800

Use of the cotton setting was beyond the scope of this experiment. Made the whole article for me. Nice find, mrkredo.

By: sdrawkcab

sdrawkcab — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:30:19 -0800

I use a frying pan. weird.

By: bat

bat — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:58:44 -0800

If Johnny Depp wanted to make a grilled cheese for me using the VCR , I'd be happy.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:15:34 -0800

If you liked ironing sandwiches, you may also enjoy Thanksgiving dinner in a garbage can.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:30:30 -0800

I'm almost surprised this wasn't put up on Kottke's site as a "grilled cheese hack."

By: clevershark

clevershark — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:31:25 -0800

Damn, someone beat me to the Kottke reference...

By: Specklet

Specklet — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:50:56 -0800

If Johnny Depp wanted to use any of my appliances to make me anything, I'd be happy.

By: I Love Tacos

I Love Tacos — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:24:59 -0800

I blame the endless adolescence that today's culture has engendered. You make that sound like a bad thing. When I'm 80, I'll put up a guide on how to make grilled cheese sandwiches with a jet pack.

By: shockingbluamp

shockingbluamp — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:31:23 -0800

A person can get by quite nicely with an iron, a popcorn popper, or a small George Forman Grill. Back in the day when I lived in L.A. next door to RATT, me and my best friend cooked Hamburger Helper every day in the popper. Griiled cheese when we could steal cheese fron Ralph's with a Salvation Army Store iron. I'm not poor now but I do use the GFG for everything from egg rolls to pizza to s'mores. God Bless America.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:05:56 -0800

Anyone remember the hotdog cooking appliance where you would impale the weiners on electrodes on each end, close the plastic lid, flick the switch and and watch while they were electrocuted to steamy, tasty readiness?

By: Joeforking

Joeforking — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:26:01 -0800

A definition if the word "clever" of which I was previously unaware.

By: John Smallberries

John Smallberries — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:56:08 -0800

Longsleeves, we had one of those hot dog execution devices. Quite a nifty little appliance, and I hadn't thought of it in maybe 25 years. Nothing whetted the appetite better than the smell of ozone and scorched wieners. Yummmmmm.

By: The Cardinal

The Cardinal — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:08:50 -0800

My mom used to do this all the time when she was a kid. Tinfoil keeps you from getting yelled at by your mother.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:47:00 -0800

Can someone please fix 'experiment'? done.

By: bat

bat — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:58:54 -0800

My grandfather thought it was pretty cool to cook a meal on the engine of his truck during long trips.

By: mrkredo

mrkredo — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:04:49 -0800

jessamyn: Thank you!

By: mcchesnj

mcchesnj — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:53:22 -0800

This also works for steaks, with foil, of course...

By: I Love Tacos

I Love Tacos — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:49:37 -0800

My grandfather thought it was pretty cool to cook a meal on the engine of his truck during long trips. I have a cookbook dedicated to this exact topic. Sadly, I haven't ever used it.