What are your feelings on waffled grilled cheeses? Good? Bad? Is it really a grilled cheese if it’s actually a waffled cheese?
This is certainly an interesting question!
Most importantly: are we talking about a sandwich made with regular bread in a waffle iron, or are we talking about using actual waffles as the bread component? You see it done both ways on the internet. But my personal stance is if you’re using waffles that’s a waffle sandwich, not a grilled cheese.
But if you’re using plain ol’ bread in the waffle iron, then really that’s just an alternate cooking technique, and I’m ruling that this method still produces a grilled cheese. In fact, there are sandwich makers out there that use the same concept as the waffle iron. I own one! It’s a Hello Kitty sandwich maker that not only seals and cuts the sandwich (on the diagonal, like it should be) but also puts a cute little picture on each piece!
Full disclosure here, though: the sandwiches that come out of that thing aren’t that great. They lack the buttery crispness I love, and the bread gets all compacted and kind of tough, and sometimes the fillings leak out, or aren’t melted all the way. If you’re in a dorm situation or your stove is broken or you’ve set up camp in an underground tunnel system to escape the dystopian nightmare of the surface world then this is a perfectly fine way to make a sandwich, but if you’ve got a pan and a spatula and a stove that’s the route to go.
Full disclosure 2: if someone invited me over and made me a waffled grilled cheese I’d eat the hell out of it.