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[Stinkles]

Extra sharp cheddar.

It has salt, flavor, richness, texture, melts well, pairs with other flavors and matches every cuisine from Mexican to Italian.

It's the perfect sandwich cheese.

 

[Allez Phill]

Swiss cheese is best cheese

Preach it!

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Red Leicester or Mozzarella

If it ain't melted, it ain't right

 

[RPGCrazied]

I use sharp cheddar on everything that requires cheese. Its my favorite.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

I fucking love smoked Gouda and Old Amsterdam

 

[KorrZ]

Havarti or Swiss cheese for me.

Havarti is just so amazingly creamy it goes together perfectly with a few slices of bacon on top of it to counterbalance the richness of it. Now get some jalapeno havarti to add a kick of spice to it and you've got yourself a sandwich.

 

[Scoot2005]

Cold sandwich? Any cheese can be enjoyed.

Hot sandwich? Got to be that Kraft American. Science made a better melty cheese, face it.

I support you. I also believe in the melty mozzarella.

 

[Arkos]

Provolone and it's not even close

 

[Lotto]

Everything except pepperjack.

 

[Arjen]

Old Amsterdam. So good.

 

[Aaron Strife]

64 slices of American cheese

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

Baby Swiss is great, as is muenster. But it really does depend on the sandwich to pick the best one overall.

 

[Fancy Clown]

Too hard to choose, but I've been diggin habenero pepper jack most recently

 

[SiegfriedFM]

No Swedes in this thread yet, apparently. Since the undisputed king of cheese is the Västerbotten. Goes with everything, grilled sandwiches, cold sandwiches, pie, hamburgers, pizza (although it's really too expensive for that).

Don't believe me? What other cheese has the King of Sweden endorsing it?

 

[Ultimadrago]

Subbing for cheese recommendations.

Can't be using Cracker Barrel forever!

 

[Goldenroad]

Cream Cheese dammit. I can't even eat the stuff what with the lactose intolerance and all, but there is nothing I crave more than a sandwich with some turkey, cucumber, alfalfa sprouts and cream cheese...or just one of these right here:

The best I ever had was at Murrays Bagles in Chelsea on 8th between 22nd and 23rd.

 

[Fenderputty]

Whatever cheese they use in France to make a croque madame.

 

[nikos]

Provolone and Smoked Gouda are always winners and mainstays in my house. Usually we have some Monterrey Jack and Pepper Jack around as well. Recently I've been liking the Havarti and Muenster we've been buying. Lots of cheese for lots of different sandwich options. Always have to be prepared.

This, and Gruyere. It depends on the sandwich.

 

[Lord Azrael]

I like my cheese aged. I will leave a few blocks of cheese in a time capsule so that my descendants many generations from now can become a part of the cheese master race.

 

[Stinkles]

Whatever cheese they use in France to make a croque madame.

Gruyere I believe.

 

[entremet]

Gruyere I believe.

Yep.

 

[MidgarBlowedUp]

Gruyere
Mozzarella
Provolone

Yes. And I'll add real deli American, not that packaged junk that is wood pulp or cheese "product".

 

[inm8num2]

Provolone is the sandwich king.

 

[Rarity]

Why choose just one!?

 

[mt1200]

Everything else is just trying too hard

Spoiler

lol

So many american "cheese products" instead of whole cheeses...

 

[Plinko]

Why choose just one!?

"The Constipator."

 

[Stormhammer]

getchoo some boar's head american cheese bruh

kraft can't handle it

 

[God Dayumm]

cheez whiz of course

 

[Ace Harding]

Why choose just one!?

I just got 'rrhea twitches in my butt.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

I usually opt for provolone on a sandwich. I agree that cheddar is usually to overpowering. The only time I'll put cheddar on a sandwich is when I make a grilled cheese, and then I usually opt to put on two or three cheeses so they all blend together.

 

[leakey]

Gouda
Havarti
Pepper Jack

 

[TheDude108]

God tier:

 

[GingerNathan]

American cheese was created because real cheese doesn't melt well. It has nothing to do with what tastes better. If you are melting cheese onto things you use synthetic blends, such as Kraft Singles. If you are eating cheese cold use whatever makes you feel most superior.

Gruyere, Emmental, Fontina, Taleggio, Camembert, and Brie are all proper cheeses that are rather good at melting. Goats cheese also but the texture can be grainy.

As far as the OPs question, depends on the sandwich most cheese works well with specific flavour combinations.
If the Sandwich is plain cheese (untoasted) then I'll go for a good quality Cornish cheddar (Davidstow) on wholemeal bread with butter (not margarine).

Oh an the answer is never those presliced pieces of tasteless rubber, or anything that comes in a can

 

[iamblades]

Colby Jack is my burger cheese, a semi-young provolone is my cold cut sandwich cheese.