Tuna Melt
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Credit: Todd Coleman
I'll never forget the tuna melt I used to have at the Woolworth's lunch counter on King Street in Charleston, South Carolina: buttered white bread, browned to a crisp on a flattop grill; freshly made tuna salad dotted with diced celery and Georgia sweet onions; American cheese melting out the sides of the sandwich; and a side of Lay's potato chips and slices of bread-and-butter pickles. I've re-created that classic tuna melt at home, and I've also made lots of other variations using different kinds of bread, cheese, and condiments. The results are always tasty. (See
Tuna Melt Canapés.) —Warren Bobrow, Morristown, New Jersey
A Hot Tuna sandwich is just wrong! and an open faced Tuna sandwich is not a Tuna Melt.
A Tuna Melt is like a crunchy grilled cheese..Crisp on the outside-with the cheese spilling out the sides-and the Tuna? cool and freshly made tempering the sweet taste of grilled American cheese. That is a Tuna Melt!
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I look at it as an act of love.