Toasted Cheese, Cheese on Toast, Welsh Rarebit

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What cheese? Both sides of the bread toasted? For or against Worcester Sauce? Onions? Black pepper? Brown bread or white?

Discuss.

― One day all things will come sliced, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Since you're using the grill, toast what will be the underside only. A light scraping of English mustard, cheese (the more aged the cheddar the better), pepper. White bread, natch.

Or, if you feel like a real pig, Cheesey Hammy Eggy. Yes, that really is what it's called. Toast out of the toaster (from quite a light setting), breaded ham, a fried egg then cheese. Stick under the grill to melt/brown the cheese. Num.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw man, someone posted a recipe for the "Hot Brown" which is infinitely nicer than bog standard cheese on toast. Do as search for that!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No, YOU do a search for it. If I get caught looking for 'Hot Brown' on my works pc I'm in for the chop.

― One day all things will come sliced, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Due to my girlfriend's ridiculous Anglophilia I am now addicted to whole wheat toast + butter + Marmite + cheddar. Mmm.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

No, you do a search!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I absolutely insist.

― One day all things will come sliced, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay kids...

Place two pieces of toast on plate. Top with like 2 - 4 slices of turkey (ham works too though), top THAT with a couple tomato slices, then you pour cheese sauce over that, put a couple few slices of bacon on top, sprinkle some cheese on it, broil it for a second so it gets all melty and kickass. Voila, you have hot brown.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well hey, looky here, it's a hot brown!
http://www.rynosoft.com/mick/pictures/kentucky/perfection.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my arteries just left my body in protest.

Anyway, if you put meat or vegetables with cheese on toast then it's no longer cheese on toast, in my view. I toast wholemeal bread lightly on both sides under the grill, melt some strong cheddar on it and optionally add Worcester sauce, Marmite or black pepper.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I like a sprinkling of dried mixed herbs on top of my cheese - that doesn't count as veg, does it?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Re the Hot Brown - how the hell are you supposed to manipulate that into your mouth?

Cheese on toast is supposed to be a handmade versatile snack, not a plate consuming monster.

Veg and meat = toasted sandwich

― One day all things will come sliced, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a knifey forky kinda thing. It's about as American as American food gets.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Handmade - handheld

― One day all things will come sliced, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't the original hot brown invented by a hotel chef somewhere in a southern city? Details fail me here.

My mom made me cheese toast with a sprinkling of paprika for breakfast a lot when I was a kid. yellowish cheddar cheese on brown bread, toasted on one side and then flipped over, cheesed, paprika'd, and toasted on that side until melty.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Buck rarebit (ie cheese on toast with poached eggy on top) is very popular in police canteens, in Kent.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The hot brown was invented in Louisville, KY. I can't remember the name of the hotel at the moment, but I bet hstencil knows. When I think about it, it seems like the hot brown is really just Welsh rarebit with a deathwish.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil does know! as posted on the great UK sandwich vs American snadwich FITE! thread.
"Chef Fred K. Schmidt at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, created The Hot Brown sandwich in 1926. In the 1920s, the Brown Hotel drew over 1,200 guests each evening for its dinner dance. The band would play until late, and when the band took bread, around midnight; people would retire to the restaurant for a bite to eat. Bored with the traditional ham and eggs, Chef Schmidt, delighted his guests by creating the Hot Brown."

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), August 9th, 2004.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, if it doesn't have BEER in it, it's not Welsh Rarebit.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

just had some bog standard red leicester on toast grilled with a thin layer of maggi malaysian chilli sauce with garlic. it was a good day!

― calzino, Monday, 27 April 2020 00:01 (six years ago)

roasted cheese

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 27 April 2020 00:21 (six years ago)

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