Cheese toasties made with an iron
Who needs a sandwich toaster to make toasted cheese sandwiches? Use a domestic clothes iron instead - just don't forget the aluminium foil!
Cheese toasties made with an iron | |
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Servings: | Serves 1 |
Calories per serving: | 680 |
Ready in: | 15 minutes |
Prep. time: | 5 minutes |
Cook time: | 10 minutes |
Difficulty: | |
Recipe author: | Chef |
First published: | 1st November 2012 |
Best recipe reviewBloody genius! 5/5 I wish I had known about this when I had my first bed-sit, 50 years ago! Mind you, I don't think I owned an iron then! |
Ingredients
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- 1 slice of bread cut in two
- 200 g Cheddar cheese cut about 3 to 4 mm thick, enough to go almost to the edge of the bread
- 2 teaspoons of Butter or margarine
- Tin foil
- A clothes iron
Mise en place
- Ensure the iron is not on the steam setting. Set it to the hottest setting. Once the light goes out for the first time we're ready to cook!
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Tear off the aluminium foil
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Iron for 5 minutes a side
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Wrap in aluminium foil
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1 clothes iron, a cheese sandwich buttered on the wrong-side and a clothes iron
Method
- Lay the cheese on un-buttered bread
- Fill the sandwich with enough cheese to go just to the edge of the bread
- Butter both slices of bread on the outside - no butter goes in the middle of the sandwich
- Lay the sandwich on a single piece of fin-foil
- Wrap well so the contents won't leak
- Place the iron on top of the foil sandwich, leave for 5 minutes.
- Turn the sandwich and iron the other side for another 5 minutes
- Eat!
Serving suggestions
Serve with Branston pickle.
Variations
Add a slice of ham.
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