Grilled cheese - not a meal?

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So my partner makes a 'meal' he calls grilled cheese'. It literally consists of just cheese grated directly onto a plate and put under the grill until crispy 😐. I've been to his mum's house and seen her make something similar where she cracks an egg into a plate, covers it in grated cheddar and grills it.

He insists that this is a normal meal that everyone eats.

I've literally never seen anyone else eat this. Any time I've heard people talk about a 'grilled cheese' they have meant something like a cheese toastie.

Am I being ignorant or is this just NOT a well known dish. It's just a weird habit peculiar to his family?

Also, who the F cooks an egg under a grill!

I love grilled cheese.

I do it in the sandwich maker.

Perhaps I should call it a meal rather than a snack!

never heard of it, but going to try it!

Perfect snack if you are low-carbing.

Roasted cheese is on bread though, not just grilled cheese.

For us, it's aged cheddar (extra sharp) from New York State. And in the Southern US, a bit of mayo on the bread.

In italy a provolone is hung over the bbq and melted for quite a while. It's spectacular. Just sort of carved off and served in a bowl.

Knocks me out like a Sunday roast would. Definitely a meal 🥳

Yeah that's weird. A piece of flat grilled cheese is a snack. (NOT a meal.) Would be yummy with a glass of wine, or a glass of whisky, but not as a meal no.

Also, putting a plate under the grill? WTAF?

I’ve only heard of Grilled Cheese as what Americans call a cheese toastie. Standard kids menu offering over there. You know it’s a classy establishment when it’s made with Wisconsin cheddar and not the orange American stuff!

A pile of melted cheese gloop sounds disgusting.

Thank you

That's not a meal, it's a dirty snack 🤤

I'd never call it a meal, but for a snack I really enjoy cheese melted on the George Foreman grill. Just the cheese, nothing else,

I've also only heard of a 'grilled cheese' meaning a cheese toastie (American).

I wonder if some Brit got this mixed up and thought they would try a grilled cheese 😂

There are so many delicious things you can do with cheese, this seems like a bit of a waste, especially if it's just cheddar. Each to their own though.

My DHs favourite ever meal on holiday was in a Greek cafe.

Menu said "spaghetti with cheese". When it came it was a bowl of plain spaghetti and a massive bowl of grated cheese...

You were posh with your fried egg! In our corner of South Wales we just had the grilled cheese (imaginatively named ‘cheese on a plate’), sometimes with sliced tomato but often, ultimate bliss, with one of my grampa’s extraordinarily strong pickled onions. Eat that off your lap in front of a coal fire on a damp night - you’ll know what heaven is.

Like @BlancmanegeBunny it is a traditional supper from where I'm from in SW England. But we're "dap country" so do many things in common with the Welsh.

It certainly was a traditional dish growing up. I like grated onion in mine. Lots of bread to mop it up at the end. My Nan always used to make this as a supper when I slept over in the 70s/80s. The other favourite that people turn their noses up on but is actually quite nice is cheese and vinegar.

DP has done this. Not grilled though, just slices of cheese, on a plate, microwaved until melted, eaten with a fork, no egg or bread. He says his mum gave it to him for dinner at least once a week when he was a kid, although presumably she would have grilled it, because his childhood was in the 70s. Something else she used to make him was chip fritters - basically deep fried chips, dipped in batter and deep fried again.

He's from Glasgow🙄

My dad used to make 'cheese dreams' when he got home from the pub on a Friday night. He made them an individual side plate size one for each of us. It was piles of grated cheese mixed with eggs and chopped onions baked in the oven for about twenty minutes. It was blooming lovely.
We all went to bed with indigestion but totally worth it

What a blast from the past! My DGM used to do this. I can even remember the brown saucer she used to use, to do it in the microwave. 😂

Grilled cheese sandwiches are not just kids' food in the US. The traditional accompaniment is tomato soup. DH and I often have that combination for dinner, especially in the cooler months.

We also do some fancy versions of grilled cheese sandwiches. Smoked gouda and thinly sliced pear is one of my favorites. Also thinly sliced apple with aged cheddar is very tasty.

Grilled cheese sandwiches are cooked with a heat source coming from the bottom as in a frying pan and then turned. But we also have cheese toast in the US, which is placed in the oven under the broiler, which, correct me if I'm wrong, is what I think you call a grill in the UK. Cheese toast was my mother's favorite breakfast.

Never heard of this

There's an American version of cheese dreams that's very similar but with bits of bacon on top. I had them often growing up.

www.food.com/recipe/easy-cheese-dreams-223225

Theres no bread

My grandad used to have this for lunch - grilled with tomatoes and onions, with white pepper and bread and butter.

We used to have "cheesy hammy eggies" for a treat dinner as kids - I think it's a Navy thing. Toast with a layer of cheese, ham or corned beef and a fried egg on top.

I ate this as a child in the 70’s and still do now.

Dry bread to pick it up with - lovely!

I wonder if this is regional?

Welsh heritage, Birmingham born.