Recipe

For posterity, here is the recipe we used when making grilled cheese on the griddle at Burning Man.  Most times we would make 8 sandwiches at a time, repeating each step 8 times before moving on.  This usually required two people, one person manning the grill / spatula, and other person manning ingredients (butter, bread, and cheese).

1. Heat the griddle on low-medium heat until butter melts but doesn't burn away quickly.
2. Put on 1 tablespoon of butter.  Cover that with a slice of Wonderbread (or whatever you find to replace that in our new post-Wonderbread world), and smear it around to soak up the butter.
3. Quickly top with 2 thick slices of Tilamook medium cheddar.
4. Drop on a second slice of bread and wait about 3 minutes for the bread to brown.
5. Lift the sandwich with a spatula, drop another tablespoon of butter on the griddle, and smear.
6. Wait 1 minute for initial toasting, then chop down the center with a sharp spatula edge.
7. Wait another minute or two until golden brown, then scoop it up and drop it on a piece of foil for a hippy to stumble away with into the desert.