Cleaning My George Forman Grill

I adore my George Foreman Grill, but I go stretches of time where I nearly forget we even own it. Once I remember I usually find use for it a few days in a row at a time or even for a few days a week for weeks at a time. The cause of my putting my grill away and forgetting about it is just about always the same - I hate to clean it.

I could have sworn that you were supposed to be able to take out the inner grill pieces and wash them in the dish washer but I haven't seen any follow up evidence to prove said thought.

How does one best take care of the pain that is cleaning a George Foreman grill? The internet said (via many sources) that the answer was simple - paper towels. For this test I will be using, surprise surprise, my UnPaper towels.

Plug in your grill and let it begin to warm up.

Wet your UnPaper towels really well, wringing them out to the point where they just stopped being dripping wet. But still keep them very wet.

I decided to use two towels back to back in an attempt to get an even better, more thorough clean.

Place them in the grill with the "cleaning sides" facing the section of grill you want them to clean (ie. wrong side to wrong side so that both "terry" sides are on the dirty portion of the grill.)

Close the grill with the UnPaper towels in it.

Let your grill work up a good steam.

Despite warning to let things cool before removing the towels I did it anyway and gave the grill a quick wipe with a dry towel.

Seeing that amount of yuck still left I opted to flip the towels to their now clean side and close the grill again. Unplug the grill because you don't really need a lot more "cooking" at this point - or at least I didn't.

Remove the towels, wipe down your grill with a dry cloth, and enjoy your now clean George Foreman grill!

Two of my favorite sources while I was figuring out how to clean this beast:
Judith's Mama
Hub Pages

Pintesting In The Kitchen - Caramelized Onion & Mushroom Brie Grilled Cheese

Sometimes you come across a pin you need to make ASAP. That's how I felt when I saw this picture attached to this pin.

Oooooooooooh cheese-its yes!!! Just looking at this picture makes me want to make another.

The original recipe (which I strayed ever so slightly from) can be found here.

This bread screamed badass sammich so I had to have it.

The pieces of bread aren't quite nearly as frighteningly massive as they appear. This is actually 4 pieces of bread.

Thankfully grocery day was only a few days away and that evening I scurried into the kitchen to get to work. I assembled the majority of the necessary ingredients.

Thinly sliced my beautiful sweet yellow onion.

Seriously buttered up my large pan and added the onions and then dusted them with garlic powder.

Once the onions began to nearly get caramalized, I added my mushrooms as well as some more butter.

Things were coming together beautifully. Once the onions and mushrooms were reaching the point that the onions were finished caramelizing and the mushrooms were nearly tender I added beef stock. It's really up to you how much you add. Then I dusted it with some flour and mixed everything together to form a bit of a gravy.

Meanwhile I set to work prepping my bread in a way similar to how I had to when I worked at a small gourmet sandwich shop.

Cut your bread using a serrated blade.

Butter what would typically be considered the inside of your sandwich and then dust it with a little garlic powder (the garlic powder is all me, the place I worked just put the bread together this way to make their panninis.)

Fire up your George Forman grill or pannini press - whichever you may have. Place one slice butter side down onto the grill and build your sandwich from there. When you've finished putting all you desire to be the inside of your sandwich onto that slice of bread, place the last slice of bread butter side up on top.

In the case of this particular sandwich my first layer was onion, followed by mushroom, followed by brie.

Then cook inside your press until it's reached the point you consider done. Remove it from the press. Place it on a plate and enjoy!

How was the sandwich? Needed a little salt. But otherwise pretty darn tasty and it went fast.