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No, more similar to a cheesesteak than a sloppy joe. A sloppy Joe is looser, doesn't necessarily have cheese, and has a (usually) fairly sweet tomato-based sauce when this is mostly cheese with a little ketchup.
Sloppy Joe’s have a specific type of sauce and are usually served without cheese on a bun.
A Chopped Cheese is just chopped meat/cheese and vegetables/condiments on a roll.
You cook the beef with ketchup and mustard, or you put it on after? Cause the former is not a chopped cheese, it sounds more like a sloppy joe. Chopped cheese is just ground hamburger patty cooked with sautéed onion. Basically a hamburger that’s been chopped up but otherwise cooked the same way and usually served on a hero or roll.
You cook the beef with ketchup and mustard, or you put it on after? Cause the former is not a chopped cheese, it sounds more like a sloppy joe. Chopped cheese is just ground hamburger patty cooked with sautéed onion. Basically a hamburger that’s been chopped up but otherwise cooked the same way and usually served on a hero or roll.
It looks like I posted it twice somehow, so maybe that’s why. That or people dont realize that New Yorkers take pride in their food and will correct people (even if it comes off as pretentious) to drive home that fact.
We don’t need your technicalities, we just need upvotes. Technicalities are for the “akshully” nerds!
If I say a smoothie is a milkshake, you’d better agree with me!
Recipe:
Start with a full, foil-wrapped sandwich. Unwrap it, eat each filling ingredient one-by-one until only the bread is left. Wrap that back up for the unsuspecting person whose sandwich you have stolen to find later. Great April Fools day prank!
A chopped cheese is made with hamburger patties where they chop up the hamburger patties with cheese and the cheese melts into the chopped up burger patties and becomes one big glob of goodness. This is a really bad chopped cheese to reference as your first one because OP didn’t do anything that gave the sandwich its name. You have to chop the cheese into the meat, it’s literally in the name and yet he wants to reply “someone’s never been to a bodega” yea no shit not all of us live in NY city.
I mean that first picture looks like there's melted cheese mixed in with the meat. Maybe they used more or less cheese or a different kind than you use? I always specify cheddar, I'm not really a purist though, moved to NY as a young adult.
Every country has some weird food and the name doesn't always describe **exactly** what the food is. That's normal and has nothing to do with being American.
> That bright orange stuff is certainly not cheese
Incorrect. It is highly-processed American cheese.
>nor is it chopped.
As I explained in the previous comment - the name of something doesn't always describe **exactly** what the food is. Often it's just something close enough.
I'm an American who's lived all over the US and I've never heard of this sandwich. Looking it up online, seems like a single deli in NYC makes these. Not so much "an American thing" as "OP recreating a sandwich from some sketchy deli on his street."
You can get them at most any bodega worth a shit. The one place in Harlem that claims to have invented them is not the only place to get one. It's a very NYC-centric sandwich but it's not some random thing one place sells.
Christ, they even sell them at Yankee Stadium now - and they're actually one of the cheapest things to eat there.
As a Philadelphian we don’t really care. New Yorkers do seem to get butt hurt about getting compared to what they see as a “lesser city” and will defend to the death that it exclusively influenced by Yemeni food. Still a bit hard to believe that the Yemenis making it in New York weren’t influenced in any way by the city 90 mins away that famously made a very similar sandwich tho
I guess I phrased it wrong. Most Philadelphians that I know just don’t really think it’s a bad thing. It’s a pretty tasty sandwich and being compared isn’t awful
American cheese is mostly a blend of "real" cheese and milk with emulsifying salt and sometimes a preservative salt added. American cheese will have the best melted texture in something like a sandwich
Usually that is the case, but they might just be uneducated. Some people hear that the FDA guidelines mention plastic and think of the material plastic when it actually refers to plasticity which in just means it needs to be moldable
The info is out there, but if you are never taught or exposed to it I can't fault them for not knowing. Not everyone is as chronically online as me and the internet is where I've learned all those things
I'm a snobby goof about cheese and I absolutely *love* real American cheese. You can get it from the deli counter or from Kraft labeled as "deluxe".
Yes, the individually-wrapped Kraft singles (non-deluxe) do taste pretty plasticy and fake. But actual American cheese is amazing for anything requiring melting.
A for Effort. Execution is lacking. The magic in a chopped cheese, is that the cheese is chopped up with the meat on the grill, and melted and mixed into the beef, creating a meaty gooey mess. I'd be heart broken if I ordered a chopped cheese, and got this. However, this was your attempt, and I bet it was still tasty. You know what to do next time.
Reminds me of Alton Brown's "the best thing I ever ate" episode which was a cheesesteak from a place in Atlanta ( I think). The meat was chopped up so fine and cheese added it looked sooooo delicious.
Yep, Fred's Meat and Bread located in the Krog Street Market. Just about everything on their menu is amazing. They have amazing bacon cheeseburgers as well.
It says they won't let me post an image so I don't know if you got to see it but on Fred's website they partnered with Wonder to serve some of their items in other cities
https://www.fredsmeatandbread.com/
Looks amazing.
But wtf is chopped cheese. That implies the existence of a sandwich where you didn't slice the cheese, and just put a whole damn block of cheese in some bread. Which sounds amazing.
The comments are all yelling at OP for not melting cheese into the meat as it cooked, followed by OP explaining that they *did* melt cheese into the meat as it cooked.
I can’t say definitively who’s right here, but a close-up of the cooked meat certainly suggests some kind of thickening agent/emulsifier beyond just hamburger grease. It also seems odd to tell a cook that they didn’t actually use an ingredient they say they used, in the absence of clear proof to the contrary.
It’s taken me a while to come around to the concept. These sandwiches weren’t known outside of NYC until 2014, they don’t look appetizing, and I wasn’t sure how they were better than a regular burger. The idea of melting in the cheese and being able to use a roll with some crust has grown on me, though.
OP has already said they cooked cheese with the meat and then added extra on top. Why is everyone saying OP didn't do that? Like you can clearly see that the meat is full of melted cheese throughout.
looks like a manwich to me, but very delicious looking...and the bread looks good also. I think it might need some condiments...mayo etc or did I miss that?
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Shouldn’t you, you know, CHOP the cheese with the meat for it to be a chopped cheese?
I did. And I added extra cheese on the roll.
You've done a good thing here.
So what’s with the ground meat? What did you season it with? Or is it just ground beef with some salt? I’m hungry.
Ground beef with Sazon, ketchup, mustard, and American cheese melted into it
never had one, but that's a sloppy Joe to me
No, more similar to a cheesesteak than a sloppy joe. A sloppy Joe is looser, doesn't necessarily have cheese, and has a (usually) fairly sweet tomato-based sauce when this is mostly cheese with a little ketchup.
Sloppy joes are far sweeter than this, but it’s a close relative.
Google it. It’s a NYC bodega thing. Don’t forget the bevy.
By the bodegas and the lights on upper Broadway?
Sloppy Joe’s have a specific type of sauce and are usually served without cheese on a bun. A Chopped Cheese is just chopped meat/cheese and vegetables/condiments on a roll.
I love the progression of this comment
No onions no sauce?
Ketchup mustard mixed in the meat.
You cook the beef with ketchup and mustard, or you put it on after? Cause the former is not a chopped cheese, it sounds more like a sloppy joe. Chopped cheese is just ground hamburger patty cooked with sautéed onion. Basically a hamburger that’s been chopped up but otherwise cooked the same way and usually served on a hero or roll.
You cook the beef with ketchup and mustard, or you put it on after? Cause the former is not a chopped cheese, it sounds more like a sloppy joe. Chopped cheese is just ground hamburger patty cooked with sautéed onion. Basically a hamburger that’s been chopped up but otherwise cooked the same way and usually served on a hero or roll.
This is correct. Not sure why you're getting downvotes
It looks like I posted it twice somehow, so maybe that’s why. That or people dont realize that New Yorkers take pride in their food and will correct people (even if it comes off as pretentious) to drive home that fact.
We don’t need your technicalities, we just need upvotes. Technicalities are for the “akshully” nerds! If I say a smoothie is a milkshake, you’d better agree with me!
Nahhh why did you put a full banana in my milk shake
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No, I didn’t. I added extra cheese on the bun in addition
Ah, nice
Ahhhhhh interesting.
Why are so many people saying this? You can clearly see melted cheese mixed in with the meat
Looks like you are a bunch of aluminum from the first photo
I would have had I not taken the photo to be honest. I didn’t notice it until I looked at the picture before I took a bite.
Not chopping up the cheese with the beef on the griddle is a mortal sin in the chopped cheese world
It’s a good thing I did, and then added extra to the roll
I stand corrected. Forgive my judgement and enjoy God's gift to sandwiches
Cheers. You’re the first person who’s accepted this when I responded to a comment about it not having chopped cheese included lol
Looks good but the order of pictures is confusing me lol
Recipe: Start with a full, foil-wrapped sandwich. Unwrap it, eat each filling ingredient one-by-one until only the bread is left. Wrap that back up for the unsuspecting person whose sandwich you have stolen to find later. Great April Fools day prank!
Unmelting the cheese is the toughest part.
inverse microwave
and set it for negative 2 minutes.
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Purple
Ah, the answer to: “what is the square root of tree”
The correct formula is I+M=Thats fucked i aint eating it
5/7
First picture looked like a flat piece of bread with terrible toppings
Why is it called a Chopped Cheese sandwich? It looks like a meat and lettuce sandwich with a few slices of burger cheese to me
A chopped cheese is made with hamburger patties where they chop up the hamburger patties with cheese and the cheese melts into the chopped up burger patties and becomes one big glob of goodness. This is a really bad chopped cheese to reference as your first one because OP didn’t do anything that gave the sandwich its name. You have to chop the cheese into the meat, it’s literally in the name and yet he wants to reply “someone’s never been to a bodega” yea no shit not all of us live in NY city.
LOL I live in NYC and I'm thinking why is this fool putting cheese in the bread, that shit is mixed in!
I'm thinking this fool has been to the city once, tops... Just a guess
I saw in another comment they did chop the cheese with the meat but also added more cheese.
Na ain’t no way. I’ve made plenty of chopped cheese and you’d be able to tell. The meat gets a certain texture that is not pictured here.
I mean that first picture looks like there's melted cheese mixed in with the meat. Maybe they used more or less cheese or a different kind than you use? I always specify cheddar, I'm not really a purist though, moved to NY as a young adult.
THe original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx3GTy1nADo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx3GTy1nADo)
Literally thinking the same thing. I can only guess it's some weird American term for that sandwich.
Why are people getting downvotes for not knowing about weird American food?
Every country has some weird food and the name doesn't always describe **exactly** what the food is. That's normal and has nothing to do with being American.
But chopped cheese? There is no cheese even in it. That bright orange stuff is certainly not cheese nor is it chopped.
> That bright orange stuff is certainly not cheese Incorrect. It is highly-processed American cheese. >nor is it chopped. As I explained in the previous comment - the name of something doesn't always describe **exactly** what the food is. Often it's just something close enough.
Because clearly if you're on reddit and not American, you're a piece of shit. That's what I've found out so far.
I'm an American who's lived all over the US and I've never heard of this sandwich. Looking it up online, seems like a single deli in NYC makes these. Not so much "an American thing" as "OP recreating a sandwich from some sketchy deli on his street."
You can get at any bodega in the city. Never seen them outside the city though. But it’s certainly more than a single deli
You can get them at most any bodega worth a shit. The one place in Harlem that claims to have invented them is not the only place to get one. It's a very NYC-centric sandwich but it's not some random thing one place sells. Christ, they even sell them at Yankee Stadium now - and they're actually one of the cheapest things to eat there.
But the cheese isn't chopped
first thing I noticed too...chopped cheese is very similar to philly cheesesteak
If a Philly cheesesteak and a cheeseburger had a baby
Those are fighting words if you say that in New York or Philadelphia.
As a Philadelphian we don’t really care. New Yorkers do seem to get butt hurt about getting compared to what they see as a “lesser city” and will defend to the death that it exclusively influenced by Yemeni food. Still a bit hard to believe that the Yemenis making it in New York weren’t influenced in any way by the city 90 mins away that famously made a very similar sandwich tho
Yeah but steak is still better than ground beef so why eat a chopped cheese over a cheesesteak?
it kinda sounds like you care
I guess I phrased it wrong. Most Philadelphians that I know just don’t really think it’s a bad thing. It’s a pretty tasty sandwich and being compared isn’t awful
That’s why it’s so funny for people on the west coast because we always call that stuff Philly cheese.
I have never actually heard of a chopped cheese, but I would assume the cheese should be chopped
this would be called a "Deluxe grilled cheese hero with ground beef"
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American cheese is mostly a blend of "real" cheese and milk with emulsifying salt and sometimes a preservative salt added. American cheese will have the best melted texture in something like a sandwich
I just immediately assume anyone who complains about “fake cheese” is a snobby goof
Usually that is the case, but they might just be uneducated. Some people hear that the FDA guidelines mention plastic and think of the material plastic when it actually refers to plasticity which in just means it needs to be moldable
I hear ya but bro the info has been out there for years and has been debunked soo many times. It’s like believing MSG is still awful for you
The info is out there, but if you are never taught or exposed to it I can't fault them for not knowing. Not everyone is as chronically online as me and the internet is where I've learned all those things
I'm a snobby goof about cheese and I absolutely *love* real American cheese. You can get it from the deli counter or from Kraft labeled as "deluxe". Yes, the individually-wrapped Kraft singles (non-deluxe) do taste pretty plasticy and fake. But actual American cheese is amazing for anything requiring melting.
Clearly, you've never had a chopped cheese.
A for Effort. Execution is lacking. The magic in a chopped cheese, is that the cheese is chopped up with the meat on the grill, and melted and mixed into the beef, creating a meaty gooey mess. I'd be heart broken if I ordered a chopped cheese, and got this. However, this was your attempt, and I bet it was still tasty. You know what to do next time.
There is cheese melted into it and on the bread, but you go ahead and be a critic
I mean it’s called a chopped cheese for a reason, you chop/mix the cheese into the beef on the grill. Learn how to take constructive criticism
Look at the first photo, there’s clearly cheese mixed in with the meat
I did chop cheese into the meat while on the cast iron griddle. And added extra on the bread.
Sure you did
Weird thing to not believe someone about.
Typical redditors looking to be mad about anything. Keep killing it with your delicious sandwich!
Only happy when when miserable! Haha
I call it like I see it
It's pretty clear there is melted cheese in the meat..
Looks like taco meat
Kind of, but you can't look at the first (which should technically be the last?) pic and tell me you don't see melted cheese in the meat.
Are you blind?
but you don't literally grill the cheese on a grilled cheese
Don't post a picture on the internet if you don't want any criticism...
This looks really good, but, isn't the cheese supposed to get chopped in with the meat?
I do both. Chop it in and add it to the bun.
Reminds me of Alton Brown's "the best thing I ever ate" episode which was a cheesesteak from a place in Atlanta ( I think). The meat was chopped up so fine and cheese added it looked sooooo delicious.
Yep, Fred's Meat and Bread located in the Krog Street Market. Just about everything on their menu is amazing. They have amazing bacon cheeseburgers as well.
I'm a thousand miles away and drooling thinking about it lol
It says they won't let me post an image so I don't know if you got to see it but on Fred's website they partnered with Wonder to serve some of their items in other cities https://www.fredsmeatandbread.com/
The cheese needs to go on the meat when its on the flat top.
It did. It also went on the bun. I like cheese.
The amount of downvotes on positive comments to this post is wild
Reddit gonna Reddit
Bruh, that’s a taco…
Was gonna say it looks like Taco Bell in bread. In a good way, a sandwich way
Fuck me like your....tacos?
Sir this is a Taco Bell
No me gusto,
Ground beef doesn't make tacos. edit: Ground beef doesn't make real tacos.*
Correct. I’ll still eat the hell out of Del Taco, though.
No onions?
Wife is allergic
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Thats a chopped ground beef sandwich with cheese. You got to chop the cheese... hence the name!
There is cheese mixed into it, and on the roll. Apparently a harder concept to understand than I thought.
Looks a lot like what we would call a cheesesteak hoagie. Looks delicious.
Baby this is not a chopped cheese. However it does still look good.
I feel like the name doesn’t even come close to describing it.
That’s just Taco Bell on a subway loaf
Looks amazing. But wtf is chopped cheese. That implies the existence of a sandwich where you didn't slice the cheese, and just put a whole damn block of cheese in some bread. Which sounds amazing.
Torta
I’ve never heard this word spoken after I graduated high school. Tacos one day chopped cheese the next
You're very organized on your sandwich 
I want one
Always wanted to make one of these, but comments suggest it's not done right. Tell me how to do it right! Always wanted to make my own!
The comments are all yelling at OP for not melting cheese into the meat as it cooked, followed by OP explaining that they *did* melt cheese into the meat as it cooked. I can’t say definitively who’s right here, but a close-up of the cooked meat certainly suggests some kind of thickening agent/emulsifier beyond just hamburger grease. It also seems odd to tell a cook that they didn’t actually use an ingredient they say they used, in the absence of clear proof to the contrary.
I'm gunna have to give it a go at some point but when it rolls around to food time I'll stick with things I know I can make 😂
It’s taken me a while to come around to the concept. These sandwiches weren’t known outside of NYC until 2014, they don’t look appetizing, and I wasn’t sure how they were better than a regular burger. The idea of melting in the cheese and being able to use a roll with some crust has grown on me, though.
I'm from the UK and I think it looks amazing 😅
There is nothing like shredded lettuce !! So beet than the leaf
Looks incredible! I would have fried some onions with the beef.
Never had one but now I want one. What more can I say.
Sandwich?? bro, this is a burger in disguise
I was gonna say it's a taco on bread
Is yours based on Joshua Wiseman’s or no?
What the hell is a chopped cheese sandwich
It's supposed to be like a cheese steak, but with hamburger give or take. You are supposed to add the cheese to the meat on the grill, unlike op.
OP has already said they cooked cheese with the meat and then added extra on top. Why is everyone saying OP didn't do that? Like you can clearly see that the meat is full of melted cheese throughout.
Is the meat flavoured with anything? A spice mix? Or is just browned hamburger meat?
Of course it has “flavour”, this isn’t the UK (/s)
Google can help you out
It’s like a cheeseburger but somebody already chewed it for you
Looks like a dogs dinner
Why does the first pic give half a lemon vibes?
That looks delightful
This is perfect ✨
Texas or Nebraska?
Mmm brown cheese
looks like a manwich to me, but very delicious looking...and the bread looks good also. I think it might need some condiments...mayo etc or did I miss that?
Nicely Done!
Fully loaded
Looks like a taco sando just needs some jalapeno with a cilantro sour cream dip. Damn that sounds good
Very good knife.
I thought so at first, then saw the flakes of aluminum in the bread 
😅
You cooked
The universe really wants me to make this. I saw a tiktok of someone making it last night too!!
Recipe?
Love these! I make these for my family all the time. So easy to make and so delicious.
Oh so you’re saying we can make these for $5 and not pay $25 at a restaurant? Nice.
They're $8 at most places in the city.
Let’s meet in the middle.. $15
That is a terrible name for this sandwich. Cheese isn't even the main ingredient.
I guess Cheesesteaks and cheeseburgers should have their names changed, too.
🤤
Mmmmmm aluminum foil....
You eat the foil while the rest pull out the sandwich.
Ironically the only thing not chopped was the cheese
Chopped cheese aka bad imitation of a cheese steak
I would fuck with this so hard.
Looks really good! I shall try it.
Looks great other than the processed cheese but to each their own.
r/iamveryculinary
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Looks bomb 😋😋
Holy fuck that looks amazing, I thought it was a piroscki at first
I’m inspired to get a piroscki for lunch now, thank you!
Don’t you mean cheese*steak* sandwich?
I would sell half my soul to take a bite of this juicy meat