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By starting your grilled cheese in the microwave, the cheese is not only 100% melted before the sandwich even hits the skillet, the overall cook time is reduced to less than five minutes.

If you don't want to cook your grilled cheese on the stove top, our experts gave some great advice – you can easily make a delicious grilled cheese sandwich in the oven.

Matheson also subverts conventional grilled cheese method by using a skillet’s residual heat to warm the bread as the sandwich is built — but it’s primarily cooked in the oven, not on the stove.

Sandwiches were reported to comprise 30 percent of Americans' diets, with nearly half (46 percent) revealing that they could live on sandwiches alone for the rest of their lives.

By starting your grilled cheese in the microwave, the cheese is not only 100% melted before the sandwich even hits the skillet, the overall cook time is reduced to less than five minutes.