Tost & Ayvalık tostu
Tost
Tost is the Turkish grilled cheese: soft white bread and kaşar welded in a ridged countertop press into one crunch-shelled, molten-cored slab, the default fast bite at any hour.
Tavuklu Tost
What names a tavuklu tost is the hinged tost makinesi it is crushed inside, the cheap electric press that turned the pressed cheese sandwich into a Turkish category and still carries the büfe board.
Sucuklu Tost
Toast with sucuk sausage and cheese; very popular.
Sosisli Tost
The mild frankfurter on the Turkish press: split flat under kaşar, the cheap default at the büfe until Ayvalık stacks it beside sucuk in the famously overloaded Ayvalık tostu.
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
A toasted cheese built on bazlama, the thick Anatolian griddle round. Too tall for the tost press, so the kaşar melts open on a saç. The Kızılcahamam version is a protected bread, registered in 2018.
Ayvalık Tostu
Ayvalık's famous toast; wet toast with sucuk, sausage, tomato, pickles, corn, Russian salad, ketchup, mayo—everything stuffed in. Famousl...