- Who gave bananas the right
to end up in a grilled cheese sandwich?
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Hi, I'm Beryl.
And the theme for today's video is grilled cheese.
I'm very excited.
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Okay.
We have five grilled cheese sandwiches today
and it's a such a cold day today
that I've decided that this is what my day is.
My day is just going to be eating grilled cheeses.
So let's begin.
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- My name is Justin.
I've grown up in the Chicago suburbs.
And today I wanna talk to you
about a apple cinnamon honey grilled cheese sandwich.
This sandwich has a lot going on with it,
but I had a lot of fun making it.
How you start with this grilled cheese sandwich
is you're gonna cook the apple slices in butter
with a little bit of salt, olive oil,
and cayenne, and cinnamon.
And once you do that, you're gonna do the standard
grilled cheese procedure.
You're gonna put a layer of apples, layer of the cheeses,
and then I put some hot honey, or any honey will do,
with some lemon juice, brown it on both sides of the pan.
And I actually threw in a couple garlic cloves into the oil.
So you can get a little bit of a garlic oil.
After that, I put a lid on, lower the heat so it can steam,
and then once I take it out, I rub the garlic cloves
on the bread.
So you have like a really garlic-y bread.
This grilled cheese is good because it's cinnamon-y,
it's lemony, it's hot, spicy, and sweet.
And it also has an apple in it.
All right.
Thank you.
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- Okay. Starting with Justin's apple pie version, I guess
of a grill cheese sandwich.
I don't know if you guys know this, but apple pie
and cheddar cheese is a common pairing in the US,
so this kind of does make sense.
(bread crunches)
Hot.
Oh my God.
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Well, that's heavenly.
(bread crunches)
I can taste the garlic on the bread.
That is, honestly, that's the hack of the century.
If you're gonna take anything away from this video,
it's about putting a clove of garlic
in the pan while you're making grilled cheese,
letting it get soft, and then rubbing it on the top,
because holy mole guacamole.
I think that my like gut reaction
when I'm making a grilled cheese is laziness
and it's not necessarily to stew apples,
but it was really fast to do that.
This is elevated.
This is gorgeous.
This deserves a prize.
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Justin, this is, I'm very impressed.
(Beryl laughs)
This is gonna be a tough act to follow,
but we've gotta continue.
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- My name is Jiovan and I live in Novi Sad, Serbia.
The grilled cheese sandwich that I recommend
for you to try is a cheesy one
with baby spinach and hot honey.
To make the sandwich, you will take two slice of bread,
spread the cream cheese on both slices,
one slice add baby spinach,
the other slice, add the shredded emmantel cheese.
And then you'll take honey and chili flakes,
combine them, and drizzle that on the cheese side.
After that, you will take both slices and combine them,
add them to the preheated oven for about five to eight
minutes or until it's golden.
And after that, you can enjoy the cheese sandwich.
I wanted to spice up a regular grilled cheese
and I really like the combination of cheese and honey.
And also I'm a sucker for baby spinach.
So I put everywhere.
I think it's work fine because who doesn't like
cheesy, crunchy, sweet sandwich.
I mean, I know I do.
- Okay. Grilled cheese sandwich from Serbia.
Love that we have hot honey.
Again, that's funny.
Kind of, right?
Honey funny?
I love warm cream so I'm pretty sure
this is gonna be delicious.
(bread crunches)
Mm.
My one thing I will say is,
I have respect for whole wheat bread.
I just don't think that whole wheat bread
is the best when it comes to grilled cheese.
I really like white bread better,
but that's a personal thing.
Mm.
I did the classic spinach mistake where I thought
I used a lot, but then once it heated up and cooked down,
there's like no spinach in this anymore.
So I probably could have done a bit more spinach.
It does give it an air of health.
You're like, "Oh, I'm having spinach
in my cream cheese, cheese, grilled cheese sandwich."
I know I was supposed to put this in my oven
but we're having gas line issues again,
and my oven is out of commission.
So, all countertop stuff all day.
I think the hot honey cream cheese combo might be,
I mean, it's really.
Mm.
I love hot honey.
This one's pretty good.
Props for the usage of healthy greens in a grilled cheese.
The cream cheese is my favorite part of it.
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Okay, let's continue with the sandwiches.
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- My name is Andrew.
So I'm based in Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, India
and the grilled cheese sandwich that I recommend
is called the Triple C Sandwich
which basically is cheese, chicken, and chips.
You take a slice of brioche, you put Colby jack
and cheddar, then shred tandoori chicken
and you layer it on top.
And then you layer it with the chips on top.
I would mostly prefer sour cream and onion.
And then you put the last slice of bread on top.
I would mostly prefer this to be done in a griller
'cause in a toaster you would have to flip it.
So that's a possibility that the chips would be fall off.
This is something that was actually brought about
my brother, created by my brother.
So we were just hungry one late night
and we figured out that we needed something to eat.
So we went out, we scavenged the refrigerator
and we figured out that we had cheese, chips, and chicken.
So why don't we make a sandwich out of it?
Just try it out.
And hopefully you love it.
Thank you.
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- Okay. This is Andrew's grilled cheese from India,
which honestly is something that I think
my husband would also make.
He loves putting chips on sandwiches.
I didn't do tandoori chicken.
I just did a grilled chicken,
but I think it's close enough.
(bread crunches)
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Pretty hearty.
(bread crunches)
I can taste the chips, but they're not crunchy anymore.
Which makes sense, I mean,
there's a lot of
sorry.
Which makes sense, there's a lot of stuff in here
to remove the crunch factor, but you are getting the flavor.
I kind of really want some Maggie Hot and Sweet with this.
Hold on.
Okay (Beryl kisses bottle) baby.
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It is hot and it is sweet and it's like ketchup
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Dip, dip, dip.
(sandwich crunches)
Okay.
Mm.
I also feel like it's an Indian condiment.
It's an Indian sandwich.
It's on brand.
I feel like putting potato chips on a sandwich
is this unspoken universal thing that we all love
even if we don't say it.
I know even the other day I was like,
"Oh, my favorite sandwich is turkey, cheddar, lettuce,
tomato, pickle, and mayo."
But what I didn't include is that I like
to put potato chips on it too.
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Just makes them better.
Okay.
So, final takeaway for this sandwich
is chips on your grilled cheese is a plus.
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- Hi, my name is Kara.
I live in beautiful Italy, and I'm originally
from California in the United States.
The grilled cheese sandwich recipe that I wanna share
with you today is for a kimchi panino.
So how you make it.
Put the butter on the bread
and some garlic on the bread as well.
Put some brown sugar in the kimchi and cook it down
a little bit and assemble together like a sandwich.
And if you have a panini press this would be a great time
to use it.
Squish that sandwich down so it's thin and kind of crispy.
I first came up with this recipe
when I was feeling a bit homesick.
Coming from a Korean American household
in the United States, I thought, "Well, how can I feel
comfort all in one package?"
And this is how.
I took the classic American grilled cheese,
added some kimchi.
And when I was here in Italy, I thought,
"Why would I just grill this in a pan
when I could do it in a panini press?"
I really hope you try it out and enjoy.
Bye.
- Okay.
Yes, it is another day.
It was too much cheese.
I couldn't do it.
But this is the kimchi cheese panini.
The brown sugar, I'm very interested to see
what that will do to the kimchi.
I love kimchi cheese toast.
It's one of my favorites.
(Beryl slurps)
I mean, first of all, the garlic bread is very good.
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The brown sugar is super interesting
because kimchi in general has this spicy tanginess to it.
And when you cook it with the brown sugar
it really mellows it all out
and makes it kind of tangy and sweet.
It's very, very good.
I used Colby Jack cheese.
There was only so much cheese that I really
wanted to buy for this episode,
because then I would just have an insane amount
of cheese in my refrigerator.
I think the Colby Jack is nice, but I kind of might
like mozzarella cheese better with kimchi.
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I mean, yeah.
Hot kimchi is just really good.
One piece of advice I would say is
that if you're gonna make this, the kimchi does need
to be cut up pretty small.
Otherwise you're gonna end up with these
huge leaves of kimchi.
I did a okay job.
I probably could have cut it up a little smaller.
(Beryl groans)
This is tough.
I know I don't normally rate the sandwiches
but the apple one and the kimchi one are
(Beryl inhales)
I might declare a winner in this episode.
We have one sandwich left.
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- Hey guys, my name's Annika,
and I'm from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
and today I want to share my grandma's recipe
for toast with banana with you.
So for that, you will take one slice
of toast and spread some butter on it.
Then you take about half of a banana and cut it into pieces
and spread them on the toast.
You can also use some ham.
I skipped the ham because I'm vegetarian,
and instead I used some salt.
You cover everything with a lot of cheese.
I prefer gouda, but you can use any one you like,
or you have.
Then you put the toast in the oven and bake until the cheese
the edges of the cheese are golden brown.
In my own home, I have no oven.
So, I grill it as a sandwich.
I put a second slice of toast on it, and yeah.
And in the end you cover everything with some sprinkles
of paprika powder.
My grandma used make this toast
whenever we had family dinner.
It is also known as Welsh rarebit.
Normally it's only with cheese
but my grandma used to make it with bananas.
So yes, I hope you enjoy.
- I just feel like who gave bananas the right
to end up in a grilled cheese sandwich?
I sometimes have found doing this channel
that fruits have ended up in places
that I just never expected to find them.
File this under unexpected places you find bananas.
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Wait, it's not bad.
(sandwich crunches)
I'm very confused.
Let me talk through my feelings right now.
The smoked paprika and the salt are actually doing a lot
of work right now to balance
out the sweetness of the banana.
I feel like I'm first tasting salt and smoked paprika.
And then underneath the banana is giving this
warm, meaty, semi-sweetness.
I
I'm not feeling like, "Oh my gosh, I've been sleeping
on putting bananas in all my sandwiches."
However, I'm also, at the same time feeling like,
"Maybe I should be putting bananas in sandwiches."
I would like somebody else to try this and tell me
what you think because it works.
It doesn't not work.
And that's as far as I can get.
(Beryl laughs)
I know I don't normally do this, pick favorites,
however, that apple grilled cheese sandwich.
Just try it.
Honestly, just try it.
And I will see you all in my next video.