Pancake and egg cooking appliance

Abstract

The electrically-powered cooker has a base that pivotally supports a clam shell-type cooking unit having two independently pivotal cooking halves, each half being provided with its own hot plate. One or more dished recesses are provided in the bottom half of the unit, while a matching set of slightly raised bosses are provided on the top half. Each cooking half has its own separate electrically energized heating element to raise the temperature of the corresponding hot plate to the desired level. In use, the cooking unit is initially opened with the two halves laid open on opposite sides of the base and with the hot plates facing upwardly. After batter is poured into the dished receptacles of the bottom half and allowed to cook, the top half is closed upon it and latched, whereupon the closed unit is flipped over onto the opposite side of the base to flip the pancakes contained therein. The latch is released and the bottom unit is flipped back over to its open position to allow the other side of the pancakes to cook on the flat raised bosses of the inverted top half. When the pancakes are fully cooked, they are removed from the bosses using a spatula or the like, and the cycle is repeated.