Make the perfect cheese toastie with 1 ingredient that will leave you ‘drooling’

You know the feeling. It’s lunchtime, you’re starving, and only one thing can fill the void: a cheese toastie. Your cholesterol levels may take a bit of a hit, but once and a while, it’s worth it. Ham is of course a natural bedfellow, but sometimes you just fancy unalloyed dairy goodness. Even so, adding one more element to the grilled sandwich can take it to another level, it has been said. One person on Reddit described how a “light spread” of Dijon mustard on the bottom or top of each slice of bread completes an “amazing recipe”.

A woman called Jules writing on the recipe site Stonesoup went as far as to call the move “decadent”. A little mustard, she adds, compliments the cheesy flavours. One more condiment is also recommended: “mayo to give you the ultimate oozy, golden, bubbling cheese extravaganza”. An account called green ink responded in the comments: “This is exactly how I make cheese on toast Jules – the oven is the way to go, you never go back.”

They added that their friends went to Cardiff and “brought back a wonderful selection of Welsh cheese, including one called Y-Fenni which has wholegrain mustard in it”. This apparently “made the best cheese on toast ever!!”

A man called Jeff, though, said that he avoided the mustard when he gave it a go as he does not like it.

This is “unless it’s mustard powder added to the flour mixture for Yorkshire puddings or dumplings, as in both cases it adds a wonderful sweetness”, he added.

Our American friends call it a “grilled cheese”, of course.

Dawn Perry is a firm carrier of the mustard standard over the pond. She wrote on the website Real Simple: “My college roommate’s mother taught me the undeniable importance of buttering BOTH sides of the bread (YUM).

“And my personal favorite combo is smoked gouda, a good grainy mustard, and very thinly sliced apple (and sometimes some onion). Drooling.”

The site added: “Rebecca had us at ‘buttering BOTH sides,’ but when she suggested a smear of grainy mustard, we had to give it a try.

“An assertive grainy Dijon offers a punch from ground mustard seeds similar to horseradish, plus salt and vinegar—all the bracing flavors a deliciously greasy butter, bread, and cheese sandwich needs to make it sing.