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Grilled cheese

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Grilled cheese

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The sandwich everyone can almost make: bread, cheese, butter, and patience at medium heat. One of the most-searched comfort foods in existence, measured as eaten.

Time
13 min (5 prep + 8 cook)
Servings
2
Per serving
465 kcal
Protein
16 g

Ingredients

Every ingredient links to its food page — same data, same score, same formula.

Steps

  1. Butter the *bread*, not the pan — every spot of crust the butter misses is a pale spot on the sandwich.
  2. Build the sandwiches and set them in a cold nonstick pan, then turn the heat to medium-low. Starting cold gives the cheese a head start on melting.
  3. Cook 3–4 minutes a side, pressing gently, until deep golden. If the bread browns before the cheese melts, the heat is too high — that's the entire secret.
  4. Rest one minute before cutting so the cheese sets from lava to pull.

Best cheese for melting?

Cheddar for flavour, but it can go slightly grainy alone; a slice of swiss alongside melts it smoother (and swiss quietly scores three times higher than cheddar — see the swap). Pre-shredded cheese is coated in starch and melts worst of all.

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

14% of kcal
35% water
4 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

4%
13%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 930 kcal goes into the pot, 240 g of ingredients comes out as ~250 g of food → 372 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories
372
Protein
(14%)
13 g
Fat
(57%)
24 g
Carbohydrates
(29%)
27 g
of which sugar
3 g
Fiber
1 g
Sodium
570 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.