Netherlands

Uitsmijter

The uitsmijter is the Dutch lunch plate you are not allowed to pick up: buttered bread, a topping you choose, and usually three running-yolk fried eggs, cut with a knife and fork sitting down.

Tosti

Clamp a hinged tosti-ijzer over two slices of bread and cheese and it welds the sandwich shut, sealing a pocket of lava-hot cheese in a flat crisp shell. The Dutch grilled cheese, defined by its iron.