Do You Recognize this Appliance?

[pat grimshaw]

I think it's a griller for toast and chops.
The oven has a cook-top but no griller.

 

[braex27]

I think it's a grill too... right shape for it, and the tray suggests that usage.

 

[ChickenGuy]

Yes, it's a grill.

Before we renovated our kitchen a decade ago, we used to have a gas cooker and grill just like that.

I used it mostly for making melted cheese on toast.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I've just purchased one of these grillers.

(I have disconnected my gas oven because I hardly used it; I and most of my friends do all their cooking with stove-tops, microwaves and slow cookers)

 

[justaguy]

I think it's a griller for toast and chops.
The oven has a cook-top but no griller.

Yep, it's a grill ! Marmite and cheese .... spread onto bread ... toast under grill for 10 minutes.

 

[anchihiro]

Its a grill you silly sausage.

 

[pat grimshaw]

but what are those 'wings' on the sides of the griller?

 

[G-Lexington]

My first thought was "That looks like my printer"...

Lex

 

[fetaby]

As to the wire racks hanging about, I'll stay with my contention that they are for drying something, as the burners below look small and less dangerous.
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They're plate warmers.... stack your plates to either side as you prepare your meal, once the food is done the warm plate helps keep the food hot longer...

 

[zoltanspawn]

Man, that lady has got her shit going on.

As long as we're playing these games, what's the cookbook on the table? I know we had it in the kitchen when I was a boy. Betty Crocker?

 

[Tadaa]

I'm not sure what it is. I don't think it's a grill, though.

 

[Keelandson]

Weird stove. It looks like there are four element knobs, but it's barely deep enough to hold a kettle.

On the other hand, the control with what looks like printing above it is next to the control that doesn't look like the others and might be the oven-temp control, with the knob having the printing above it the oven on-off control.

This leaves three other controls, so two might be for the two elements and one left over for the thingy at the top. Could it be a waffle iron?

Subversion! Looks like a hammer and sickle on the oven door. Pot holder?

 

[unloadonme]

It's very definitely an eye-level grill. My mother still has a cooker with one of those.

 

[csm123]

Well it must be a uk thing!

It is a gas grill for making toast or grilling bacon etc,there is a tray with a wire rack inside,this slides out to put food on then slides back in under the gas flames which are below a metal plate what keeps the heat in.The racks on the outside were made to stand plates in to warm them up before putting your food on.

Oh the good old days??

 

[unloadonme]

I don't think they were ever all that common and even less so these days when people prefer ceramic hobs and all the rest of it. You can still buy them though, eg here:

http://www.applianceplanet.co.uk/eshop/groups/CHLG.htm

 

[Keelandson]

Historically because of the abundance of coal gas, perhaps.

In the 1850s every small to medium sized town and city had a gas plant to provide for street lighting. Subscribing customers could also have piped lines to their houses. By this era, gas lighting became accepted. Gaslight trickled down to the middle class and later came gas cookers and stoves.

 

[pat grimshaw]

.... the same grill we call a "salamandar" ....

I thought that was a creepy animal

 

[GM1985]

Actually even when I was younger this style of oven/grill setup was pretty common. We had one right up until about 15 years ago. Our cooker right now has a smiliar enclosed grill above the main oven that can be used as a smaller oven as well.

Using gas over here is becoming far more expensive these days, so much that we've changed to electric. Grill like that is amazing for finishing off an almost cooked omelette

 

[bulge]

All great cooks still use gas as it allows regulating warmth.

 

[justaguy]

They're plate warmers.... stack your plates to either side as you prepare your meal, once the food is done the warm plate helps keep the food hot longer...

I think you could also use them to keep your toast warm.