It's day of questions at WG's LJ! Question #2.

[wesleysgirl]

If you're making an open-faced "melt" type sandwich, like a tuna melt or whatever, does the cheese go on top of or underneath the other ingredients?

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

It can go beneath, I think, but it's better on top. It melts more easily and the cheese acts as a kind of 'top piece' of bread, holding everything together.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

seconded.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

For a tuna melt I definitely put the cheese on top, to hold stuff together as Ladycat says but also because if the cheese is under the tuna the tuna might dry out before the cheese got melty.

For an open-face cheese-and-tomato, however, I put the cheese under the tomato so the tomato doesn't soak the bread.

[aimeelicious]

On top. Especially if there's tomato or something involved, it helps to keep the sammich all together. Yum! I just made an open-faced tuna melt on an english muffin yesterday for lunch and now I want another one =)

I need an icon that says "nom nom nom" lol.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

LOL! So do I. I got some lovely havarti cheese, which I adore but rarely buy, and I was thinking a tuna melt on a bagel for lunch. Mmm. (Only in part because the bread was moldy and had to be thrown away, LOL!)

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

I'd say top, so it can more easily melt and seep all around whatever it's covering. Mmmmmmmmm, cheese...

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Tuna melts work better with the cheese shredded and mixed in, in my experience; grilled-under-the-broiler melts work best with the cheese atop, grilled-on-a-pan melts with the cheese between the bread and the rest of the filling. Cheese closest to heat source, I guess my rule is.

Julia, cheese, glorious cheese

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

I say the cheese tops. (and then I giggle, because I am secretly five ...)

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! Then I giggle, too, because we are five together. *Hugs*

[reginagiraffe]

Top. It's... sort of the definition of a melt.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i'd put it on top. as it melts it kind of sticks everything together.

[flaming-muse.livejournal.com]

Definitely on top! Yummy!

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

It depends on the other ingredients. I never noticed this until you asked, but I tend to put cheese on top of meat and below vegetables or fruits. I have no idea why, unless it is because meat tends to be flatter.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

That's so cool! I love that you have different methods depending on the ingredients. :-)

[auntyk.livejournal.com]

top definitely top..it's got to ooze down the rest