I mainly go with Bullseye BBQ for dipping sauce these days. Never on a steak, though. It literally tastes like Wendy's old BBQ sauce that they discontinued a few years ago and I love it.
Ketchup with those things makes sense to me. It can be nice to have a little sweet in the mix. I usually won't eat it if I can help it, but I understand it.
A1 is bomb, really like it on burgers too. Obviously tomato soup is #1 with a bullet, but if you don't have that, then it's ketchup. I've already explained the science, it definitely needs something else. Can't do the sweet/molassesy BBQ sauces anymore, would much rather have a vinegar based or golden BBQ sauce.
A grilled cheese consists of only these following items. Cheese. Bread with spread (usually butter). This entire subreddit consist of "melts". Almost every "grilled cheese" sandwich i see on here has other items added to it. The fact that this subreddit is called "grilledcheese" is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against melts, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not grilled cheeses. Adding cheese to your tuna sandwich? It's called a Tuna melt. Totally different. Want to add bacon and some pretentious bread crumbs with spinach? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a grilled cheese. I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more grilled cheeses in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your grilled cheese? Use a mix of different cheeses or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some pulled pork and take a picture of it, make your own subreddit entitled "melts" because that is not a fucking grilled cheese. I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white mid-western male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to grilled cheese and mac & cheese. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our grilled cheeses and stop associating your sandwich melts with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "grilled cheeses" all over reddit and it's been driving me insane. The moment i saw this subreddit this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own subreddit just because I know this one exists now. You god damn heretics. Respect the grilled cheese and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn melt sandwich and call it for what it is. A melt.
Tomato on grilled cheese also good. Sundried tomatoes should've been left in the 90s, so dated, get those shits outta here.
Look I get the desire to have a condiment on a grilled cheese. But that condiment is pesto, not ketchup
I mean at the end of the day preferences are preferences but if we start acting like ketchup and tomato soup are interchangeable then folks what are we even doing here!!
Okay, I'm just going to add another incredibly rich/fatty thing onto my already rich/fatty sandwich? It's about cutting the richness with acidity not adding to it!