re: The profound irony of looking down on "American Cheese"

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You too good for a grilled cheese with American? If the answer is yes then you're sucking at life. Not everything has to be some other worldly culinary delicacy.

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Meh. Gruyère Is better and melts almost as well.

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Kraft singles are made with less than 51% actual cheese, so it is called a cheese food and is not considered real cheese. You like cheese food? Fine. So do I, in certain applications. But at least understand what you’re talking about.

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BOOM

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But you need that ooey, gooey for a good grilled cheese.

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Sodium citrate + water

It's magic and it's what gives American cheese that ooey gooey melt.

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Kraft singles are made with less than 51% actual cheese, so it is called a cheese food and is not considered real cheese. You like cheese food? Fine. So do I, in certain applications. But at least understand what you’re talking about.

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Well that was the most polite way to say he’s a dumbass as I’ve seen. Well done Darla.

And having grown up with it as most of us have, I do use Kraft American Cheese on grilled cheese and it’s a favorite on cheeseburgers. A friends mother always put two sliced dill pickles on the grilled cheese, a habit I’ve picked up. Butter both sides of the bread and smush it down to get proper browning and thickness.

However, my mother always made “toasted cheese” as she called it. Slice of white bread with a slice of American cheese put under the broiler and we liked it almost black. Probably the first thing I ever made for myself as did all of my siblings and still do it today as do they, well at least the ones still alive. The dead ones not so much.

Her grown up version was to add a slice of tomato on top of the cheese with salt-another thing I do as well. Matter of fact since I have a Cherokee purple tomato from Whole Foods, I’ve just typed my lunch.

It also goes good on a fried bologna sandwich also on white bread with Blue Plate mayonnaise.

We’ve all grown up in a synthetic world and American Cheese is just one more item we have on the list. I love all cheese including this-and I never say “I’ll have a grilled processed cheese sandwich.”

American cheese is more American than Donald J. Trump.

I approve of this message.

Nah man. Your OP is retarded. And you kinda got put on blast for it.

This didn’t go the way you expected.

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It has no special flavor to it but the melting consistency adds some value.

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Kraft singles have a very distinct flavor that I, personally, cannot stomach. It literally tastes like acidic vomit in a solid form, to my pallet. I won't eat it in any application because of that foul taste.

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It literally tastes like acidic vomit

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When I was a kid, Parmesan in the green can tasted like vomit to me. I couldn’t understand why anyone would want it. *shudder*

I really wish I could unsee that.

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Kraft singles are made with less than 51% actual cheese, so it is called a cheese food and is not considered real cheese.

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So cheese is anything that's at least 51% cheese. Seems circular.

How's this for a thought exercise? Let's say American Cheese is 51% something we'll call "mixture A" and 49% real cheese. If we remove 4% of the total amount of "mixture A" from the ingredients, we now have something that's slightly more than 51% real cheese and slightly less than 49% "mixture A" and is thus "real cheese."

Because this new thing we've made is "real cheese," can we not now mix it with 49% of "mixture A" and preserve it's definition as "real cheese?"