Abstract: A cooking apparatus, for simultaneously cooking a number of products, each a filling between two slices of bread buttered on their outer faces and toasted, has two oppositely arranged but otherwise similar cooking units mounted in frames, the lower one fixed, the upper one hinged to the lower. Each unit is a metal casting with a face plate and a series of hot plates, each with a rim extending from the face plate and with a peripheral cutting bead, and a concavity within the rim. The cooking units are simultaneously heated by electric heating elements on their reverse faces, and when the upper one is brought down onto the lower one, in the hot plates of which the products to be cooked are placed, the cutting beads of corresponding hot plates of upper and lower units coact to cut through the bread slices to trim excess, and to seal the edges of the slices together.