"George Leppla" > wrote in message
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> On 5/1/2013 11:27 AM, Pico Rico wrote:
>> yeah, I know. But a griddle is not a flattop, either!
>>
>> I have found that names don't seem to mean much in the restaurant
>> business -
>> anything can be called anything close or "similar".
>
> Back in the day when I worked in a restaurant, the "flattop" was called a
> grill... and the guy cooking on it was often called the Grillman.
>
> My favorite name for a piece of equipment in the kitchen was the
> "salamander". Wonder how a broiler got that name.
>


I agree. Oddly, that is one piece of equipment that seems to get called by
its name, consistently.

Do a search on how it got its name. I didn't feel like cutting an pasting,
but it is out there.