"Chemo" > wrote in message
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On May 1, 10:20 am, "Pico Rico" > wrote:
> "George Leppla" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > 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.

Ya lazy bum!

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so true. Hey, we can't all rattle off paragraphs of useful information at
the snap of the finger, as Sqwertz does!