Tost & Ayvalık tostu
Tost
Turkish-style grilled cheese sandwich; two slices of toast bread with kaşar cheese, often with tomato, sucuk, or other additions, pressed...
Tavuklu Tost
Every classic Turkish tost is a flat slice welded to cheese; the tavuklu tost breaks the rule with loose cooked chicken cubes, the press solving a lumpier problem than the machine was built for.
Sucuklu Tost
Toast with sucuk sausage and cheese; very popular.
Sosisli Tost
The mild toast on a board of loud ones: a smooth emulsified sosis, not spiced sucuk or cured pastırma, melted with kaşar inside buttered bread and pressed to a thin crisp slab.
Sebzeli Tost
Vegetable toast; grilled vegetables with cheese.
Pastırmalı Tost
The pastırmalı tost is decided by the lid of the press: paper-thin fenugreek-cured beef and kaşar clamped into soft white bread until the cure and the melt weld into one branded, ridged seam.
Karışık Tost
The karışık tost stacks sucuk, pastırma, sausage, and kaşar and crushes them flat in a hinged press until the whole thing is one griddled slab with a molten core under a crisp ridged shell.
Bazlama Tost
The bazlama tost trades the thin square loaf for a thick leavened griddle round: too tall to clamp in the press, so it toasts open on the saç and eats breadier, chewier, and softer than a usual tost.
Ayvalık Tostu
Ayvalık's famous toast; wet toast with sucuk, sausage, tomato, pickles, corn, Russian salad, ketchup, mayo—everything stuffed in. Famousl...