Grilling#Salamander

A salamander is an oven with a strong top heat. In professional kitchens - for example, those in the restaurant business - he used for browning, browning, glazing, caramelizing, but also for short-term keeping food warm. The increased by a multiple compared to other furnaces top heat is regulated.

In salamander food is heated briefly again before serving, they often get it a nice, appetizing shine. However, the plates are too long under the infrared heating, drying out the food.

Originally the kitchen Salamander was a flat hot iron which has been heated red-hot at or above the fire and was then kept short or long according to requirements on information to be gratinierende food.

The kitchen appliance owes its mythical- zoological name rather than a brand name, but the observation that salamanders are often found at active volcanoes, and the idea in the ancient world that they could survive even in fires.