About
The part where we explain why this website exists. We will try to keep it brief.
What This Is
Fried Stuff With Cheese is a food blog. Specifically, it is a food blog about the kinds of food that other food blogs tend to avoid — the deep-fried, the cheese-stuffed, the aggressively caloric, and the things that technically qualify as dinner if you squint at them long enough.
We cover recipes, restaurant finds, state fair dispatches, equipment reviews, and the occasional culinary experiment that probably should have stayed theoretical. We do not cover salads unless a salad has somehow been deep-fried, at which point it is no longer really a salad and we are very interested.
Everything on this site has either been eaten, cooked, or seriously considered by a real human being. We do not publish content about food we have not interacted with in some meaningful way. This is our one rule, and we are reasonably committed to it.
Why It Exists
Most food media is oriented toward food that photographs well in natural light and pairs with a description of a childhood memory. That food is fine. We are not here to criticize it. We are simply here to cover a different food — the food that shows up at a gas station at 11pm, or at a fair booth with a sign that just says "FRIED BUTTER" and a line out the door.
That food deserves coverage too. Arguably, it deserves more coverage, because it is genuinely interesting and nobody seems to be taking it seriously. We are taking it seriously. We are also not taking it seriously at all. Both things are true simultaneously.
Who Runs This
Greg Duffie · Editor
This site is written and run by Greg Duffie. By day, Greg runs 37SOLUTIONS, a managed hosting and IT services company, which means he spends most of his time keeping servers alive. This site is where the same instinct for rigorous documentation gets applied to deep-fried cheese.
Every article involves food that was actually eaten by a real person who was fully aware of what he was doing. You can verify his existence on LinkedIn, where none of this is mentioned.
The Shop
We have a Shop section where we recommend equipment — fryers, cast iron pans, that sort of thing. These are products we have actually used. We earn an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. This does not change what we recommend; it just means the site can continue operating, which allows us to keep eating terrible things and writing about them.