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I was making grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner last night and got an important business phone call. I grabbed the phone and ran up to my office, completely forgetting about the sandwiches. When I returned they were horribly burned. I was about to throw them away, sick about the wasted cheese, when I had an idea! I carefully peeled off the burned half of the sandwich, encouraging the cheese to stick to the other piece of bread. Then I slapped the two cheesy pieces together making 1 unburned sandwich from the 2 burned ones. Perfect! I've tried the old scraping the burned toast with a knife bit, but it never worked well for me. We could always still taste the burned flavor and it the charred crumbs still sticking to the bread would get down in our lungs. This was much better!
Yes! Good idea, I like it! I hate throwing them away too, but scraping really feels like an unpleasant last resort.
Posted by: Kate (new on the list!) | May 15, 2009 at 11:58 PM