On 5/1/13 12:42 PM, George Leppla wrote:

> My favorite name for a piece of equipment in the kitchen was the
> "salamander". Wonder how a broiler got that name.

"Modern electric or gas salamanders take their name from the earlier
salamander, an iron disc on a handle which is heated and placed over a
dish to brown it, which in turn is named after the legendary salamander,
an amphibian that was mythically believed to be immune to fire."

Wikipedia actually works!

-- Larry