Melted Cheese: it's for you to eat

Love, love, love

A friend told me in class, "I used to just put a piece of a cheese on a plate and put it in the microwave for ten seconds and eat it."

Another friend, on Facebook,  remarked that all she and her friend could see on the Salisbury menu was "cheese", which I corrected to "melted cheese."

That comment was liked and got me thinking about how much of a staple melted cheese is in someone's diet. There's melted cheese in grilled cheese, on cheeseburgers, pizza, nachos, French onion soup, and of course homemade macaroni & cheese.

Adding melted cheese to your meals is imperative as well. No one ever enjoyed FOS because of the bread and gratuitous amount of onions. They expect that thick layer of cheese melted on top, which some restaurants choose to be stingy on. I've had this happen, and the FOS was effectively ruined.

Of course, melted cheese isn't the healthiest aspect of one's diet, but you forget, because it's so damn good. It's like a cheese blackout and when you come to, it's like "what happened? Oh my, God."

And then you're like, "whatever, it was good."

Melted cheese is also an art.

Although, you can mess this up quite easily if you're not careful. Like not letting it melt enough, or melting it too much. This is serious. If you burn it, you have less cheese. You lose.

However, if you don't melt it enough, you just have a warm piece of cheese and that's gross. Ew.

Therefore you need to monitor that cheese like a child: checking on it every few seconds, examining its faculties to make sure nothing is wrong, and eventually removing it from the situation entirely.

Seriously.

Some excellent cheese suggestions, if you'd like to spicing up the experience, I would suggest a piece of bread, pesto, and melted white cheddar cheese. It's relatively healthy- if you use whole wheat.

Also, melted cheese sauce on broccoli. Replace pasta with broccoli and you have something a dietician might let you get away with. Us cheese lovers know where to cut corners when it counts. It's important to sustain our cheese-tastic lifestyles.

Melted cheese is the pinnacle of life. It makes a dish immeasurably better, especially if there's wine. It's going to be an amazing party.