Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese Sandwich is so easy to make and is hands off. Ready in only a few minutes and uses less butter than using a skillet! Use your air fryer or crisplid!
Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese SandwichI wasn’t planning on making a blog post for this sandwich.
I was hungry, it was lunch time and I wanted a simple grilled cheese sandwich. Since I had just got another new air fryer, I wanted to test out new toy Air Fryer.
There was no thought, really. I have been testing out various air fryer and have been trying out various types of food and cooking methods.
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Cast of Ingredients for Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese Sandwich
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Ingredients to Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese Sandwich
- Bread
- American Cheese
- Butter or Mayonnaise
See, just simple, bread, cheese and butter. Yep, I made that bread myself. It is a Hokkaido Milk Sandwich Loaf and it is quite simple to make, really.
We stopped buying bread in this house, as commercial bread is made so quickly in a factory and many people believe they are gluten intolerant, as a result of the feeling they get after eating commercial bread.
I don’t use commercial yeast in most of the bread I make and prefer natural fermentation, Sourdough Starter.
This Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese Sandwich is on Hokkaido Milk Sandwich Loaf bread is simply delicious.
Butter the Bread
How to Make Air Fryer Grilled American Cheese Sandwich
- Butter one side of each piece of bread.
- Place American Cheese in between both slices with the butter side out.
- Mayonnaise is also great to use for this Air Fryer Grilled American Cheese Sandwich.
- The sandwich then cooks in the Air Fryer or the Crisplid. (recipe and full instructions below).
If you like tomatoes, a nice slice of a tomato inside the sandwich is fantastic too!
We keep our bread frozen, so it is easier to butter.
Place Sandwich in Air Fryer
Please check my article on How to Properly Season Air Fryer Basket before starting.
How to Prevent Bread from Flying Around in Air Fryer
- Some people report that the top piece of bread flies off the Air Fryer Simple American Cheese Sandwich.
- To prevent this from happening, use a Stainless Steel Trivet or toothpicks to hold down the top piece of bread.
- The solution is a simple one.
Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese Sandwich
That’ll be it folks! Quick lunch, melty, toasted perfectly.
Serve with a delicious piping hot bowl of my homemade Pressure Cooker Nordstrom Tomato Basil Soup. Enjoy!
And this my dear friends, is the story of how my Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese Sandwich recipe was born and my total love with this brand of Air Fryer began.
It totally changed my opinion. I have created several hundred air fryer recipes since then and I hope you will check them all out.
More Air Fryer Recipes to Make:
- Air Fryer Chinese Salt and Pepper Pork Chops
- Air Fryer Hamburger Hamlet’s Zucchini Zircles
- Air Fryer Crispy Honey Garlic Chicken Wings
- Air Fryer Rib Eye Steak with Blue Cheese Butter Keto
- Air Fryer Southern Fried Catfish {Louisiana Cajun Style}
If you don’t have an Air Fryer, you don’t know what you are missing.
Kitchen Equipment and Essentials
- Ultrean 8.5 Quart Air Fryer
- Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
- Stainless Steel Tall/Short Trivet & Egg Cooker Set
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Here is your handy printable recipe:
Air Fryer Simple Grilled American Cheese Sandwich
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- 2 slices Sandwich Bread
- 2-3 slices Cheddar Cheese
- 2 teaspoons Butter or Mayonnaise
Crisplid Instructions
Instructions
Air Fryer Instructions
- Place cheese between bread slices and butter the outside of both slices of bread.
- Place in air fryer and cook at 370 degrees for 8 minutes. Flip, halfway through.
Crisplid Instructions
- Place cheese between bread slices and butter the outside of both slices of bread.
- Place tall trivet into pressure cooker and place crisplid basket on top.
- Place sandwich into crisplid basket and place crisplid on top of pressure cooker.
- Cook at 400 degrees for 8 minutes, flipping over after 5 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition
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Air Fryer American Cheese Sandwich
Good, crispy, but I used the same ingredients I use when grilling in a skillet so not sure why it’s “50% less fat calories”.
I’m seriously interested in purchasing an air fryer, and need to know if this is one of those gadgets that are best used near the stove power vent. The one spot in my kitchen I can see putting one is under cabinetry, and I’m concerned about the heat harming the wood. At least there isn’t a huge steam issue as with the Instant Pot.
Suzanne, mine is kept in one of the corners in my kitchen, under the cabinet. No problem. Jill
How do you do smelts in a air fryet?
I love grilled cheese and grilled peanut butter in the Air Fryer.
Often I press diced jalapeño peppers onto the outside of the bread, the butter makes them stick. They grill up beautifully and taste as good as they look!
Hi Kerryl. Sounds yummy. Jill
You seem to have a good number of air fryer recipes, but your website is so clogged with ads, it is impossible just to get to a recipe. It took me absolutely forever just to get the website to load and get to this comment section. As the ads rotate, the website just stops moving, including while I am trying to type. So frustrating.
So sorry about that, Cheryl. Let me see if I can fix that for you. Jill
What temperature do you set air fryer on? And how long do you cook it?
I made this today and it came out perfect! I checked it every 2 mins and flipped half way through. My Farberware AF only took 6 mins. SO GOOD!
Easy and great!
Toothpicks work good too for keeping the bread from blowing off. Just found this site. I have a toastmaster air fryer and was looking for recipes and ran upon this page. Glad I did.
Do you preheat the airfryer first?
So I attempted this with my power airfryer xl. And my top layer of bread got melded upright by the cheese that flew off it. Then I tried to toast a bit more with what I saved of my poor sandwich and i could hear the bread started to fly in my machine. I guess I need to weigh it down with something
If you smear a thin layer of adobo sauce on the inside surface of one of the bread slices next to the cheese, it turns the flavor up somewhere past Eleven. đŸ™‚
I love horseradish on grilled cheese sandwiches. Well, almost any sandwich, actually, but it’s especially good with sharp cheddar cheese.
Tried it tonight with some homemade tomato soup and it was incredible.
Can you make battered fish in an air fryer? as in fish and chips? I love the French fries but am scared to make the fish…
Hi Terry~
Check out my Chick Fil-A recipe and use that method.
Jill
love making grilled cheese sandwiches in my air fryer…i also like to include a sprinkling of shredded cheddar cheese on the top after I flip it over at the half way mark. So yummy!
I have a 5.3 air fryer and the bread would blow around so someone told me to put a small wire rack on top of bread to keep it down and it works.
How do you prevent the sandwich from blowing apart in the air fryer. I had to lay a rack on mine…
Yes, my bread flew into the fan and burned a corner, took double the time and crust was very dry…because I have the xl??
Use a toothpick
Looks super tasty and now I’m curious about your bread too!
Hubby is experimenting tonight with our new GoWise air fryer; we’re going to see if he can do a Cuban sandwich đŸ˜‰
Hi Natalie~
Cuban sandwiches are quite yummy. I love the medianoche myself. đŸ™‚
Jill
Your recipes look great! My wife will not be happy if you make me buy an air fryer!
Hi Mark~
I didn’t think we needed an air fryer until I tried this other brand and now I love it. We are making Buffalo Wings in the air fryer tonight, no pressure cooker. Are you in my air fryer group?
Jill
Please try this with peanut butter instead of cheese and let me know how it turns out! I have been eating grilled peanut butter sandwiches since I was a kid!
Mark, I love grilled peanut butter. I sure will try it out for you. đŸ˜‰
Jill
Nice to see someone else enjoys grilled peanut butter sandwiches
Family favorite here! My Daddy taught me about grilled PB and PB/Bacon- YUM!
peanut butter with sliced tomatoes on top! Yum yum
I tried that after my boss told me about it many, many years ago. Very good!