So here's what you'll need to get a little sloppy...

Ingredients:

- 1 brioche bun
- 2 tbsp Tillamook medium cheddar - shredded
- 2 pats of salted butter
- a couple potato chips - I used McClure's pickle
chips because they're my favorite thing EVER
- 1.5 tbsp sloppy joe mix at room temperature
- a straw

Tillamook is basically one of my favorite cheese companies OF ALL TIME. Thanks to them my friend and I were flown out to LA and got to be a part of the Grilled Cheese Invitational. BEST TIME EVER.

Ok, enough of the cap-locks - you get I'm excited about this, right? So, basically if you ever need some bomb a** cheddar you better do yourself a favor and use Tillamook. It's kind of hard to find on the East Coast but luckily some Trader Joe's and Whole Foods carry it. So yeah, get it and shred it up. The finer it's shred, the better it'll melt.







So to begin, you're going to want to use one of my tricks, when you're trying to use a bun, you'll want to cut it so that the two bready sides can function as the outside toasted pieces. I know that makes absolutely no sense, but basically you'll want to use the sides that are not the butt so that you get that nice toasty texture.

I had a super huge brioche bun so I chopped off the top and discarded it (ok, so i gobbled it up), and used the middle and bottom pieces. Flip the bottom piece so that the butt will be the side that you build the sandwich on



See? 




Righty-o, so now that you've got your bread sliced, you'll want to pack on a hunk of shredded cheese. I made this at like nine in the morning and I ended up eating like half of the cheddar I cut, so I kept having to shred more. That's totally fine - it's actually exactly what Tillamook wants; their customers eating whole blocks of cheese at nine in the morning. 




Now pile on that sloppy mix - EXTRA SLOPPY. I know how you'z kids like 'em extra sloppy. **Now someone yell "Lady you're scaring us!"**




Now for the chippies. I have always put chips on Sloppy Joe's. I don't know why or how it started, but it's something that I have to do. The crunchy texture just makes the sandwich so much better. Try it.

And if you haven't had McClure's pickle chips, get yourself some. You can get them at , Depanneur, and let me tell you what - mmmmhmmmm. That's it. That's all I can say about them. Oh wait I guess I can share what my roommate said about them - "they kind of taste like salt and vinegar mixed with sour cream and onion and pickles." She's a genius, that one. 

So pile on a few or smash 'em on. It really doesn't matter. They'll get crushed anyway. 



Now, stack on the rest of the cheese. 



And the top piece of bread.



Then you'll want to butter both sides of your bread and turn your burner to a low heat. Once your sandwich is in the griddle, go ahead and take your straw and poke holes all over it. This will create little tunnels that'll let your cheese flow out like molten lactose. As your liquid gold starts to ooze out, it'll create a cheesy crust that sort of tastes like a Cheez-It BUT BETTER.



 Make sure to do the hole-poking thoroughly on each side so that you get a nice-even cheesy crust.



Since it's cooking on such a low heat, it'll take like 7 minutes to cook on each side. Because brioche burns so quickly and since you want your cheese to be able to travel through the holes, it's very important that you give it ample time to cook. Don't try to rush it. Relax, drink a beer. Unless it's nine in the morning, and in that case, drink a bloody mary or something.

This is what it should look like if your cheese was able to melt out through the holes. If it didn't, simply just smack some shredded cheese on the outside and grill it so that it cooks it real quick. It'll work the same way but the hole method is much more fun. It made me feel like a scientist! A grilled cheese scientist!



After that, you'll want to take it off the stove-top, let it set for a minute, and then serve it while it still looks all pretty and delicious like the one below.