Recipes using a George Foreman

You can make pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches on it, or, if you don't want the butter, toasted bread with cheese melted on the inside. Since the cooking surface is non-stick it doesn't matter if any cheese drips out unlike in a normal toaster oven (in which case your whole kitchen will smell like burnt cheese, possibly one of the worst odors ever).

I've also found the George Foreman Grill to be pretty useful for cooking bacon. I usually wouldn't have paper towels handy in my apartment (one of my roommates would go through them too fast for them to be worth restocking), so I couldn't cook them in the microwave, and cleaning out a pan after cooking in the oven was too much of a hassle. By using the grill you can get a couple of slices cooked in a matter of minutes, perfect if you only want to cook them piece by piece instead of the whole package at once.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It does make a pretty nasty mess, but since the top is closed, at least it's a mess that's pretty easy to clean up.

Personally, I like to make the bacon, clean it off (fat rolls off really fast if you leave the grill hot) and then throw it onto a grilled cheese sandwich.

Oh, also be aware that you need thick bread if you want to try and toast it on a George Foreman. Some of my grain breads were cut pretty thin and weren't fat enough when stacked to push against the top grilling plate, so I wound up having to flip it and ending up with a worse sandwich than if I had just made it on the stovetop.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I think my roommate's made a steak in there before and it turned out pretty well. I've also cooked chicken in there and had it turn out pretty decent.

I've also found the grill to be useful for when you want to make a few strips of bacon. The surface's incline makes all of the fat just drip away instead of pooling ontop of the bacon.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.