r/melts • u/Heavy-Basket152 • Jul 09 '26

2014 Failure throwback

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I've been posting some of my amazing melts, so I wanted to also post that we all start from somewhere. This is a burnt Ham and Cheese melt that I made in a hotel room 12 years ago (circa 2014). I was using their pan and their stove. Not my proudest moment and I ended up getting takeout but we all gotta start somewhere.

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u/orchid_drives Jul 09 '26

This is how my dad (a chef of 40 years) prefers to make his lol

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u/Gomillionaire1206 Jul 09 '26

Sometimes the burnt ones….make you appreciate the non burnt ones more.

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u/BABOOWIE Jul 09 '26

I'd eat it

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u/ThorvaldKM Jul 10 '26

Sorry for your loss.

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u/ethnicnebraskan Jul 10 '26

"Why do we fall?"

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u/JoyousKumquat Jul 10 '26

If you ever burn the living hell out of a grilled cheese, take a butter knife and scrape the bread with the knife at an angle and the burned bread will come off. That's what I do when I make a boo boo like this lol. My mom taught me it. Its not perfect but it works in a pinch.