Abstract: It is difficult to join a stainless steel handle to an aluminium alloy bowl of a cooking pan in a permanent and secure way. Therefore, a hexagonal stud is adhered to the outside of the bowl and a stainless steel patch is fixed to that stud by providing a hexagonal hole through which the stud passes to prevent twisting of the patch relative the stud and the outer end of the stud is riveted over to hold the patch in permanent face to face contact with the outside of the bowl. Thereafter, the handle is spot welded to the patch.

Abstract: Electrically heated cooking pans usually have a number of supporting legs, each of which is fixed individually to the underside of the pan. The assembly of such items is expensive and time-consuming and in addition failure of one leg can result in the whole device becoming useless and if failure occurs during cooking can be dangerous. According to the invention, a circular stand is used which replaces individual legs and only a single central fixing point is required for the ciruclar stand. Normally, the device will have its own electrical heater permanently secured to the base of the pan and this will have a metal cover to enclose the heater. The circular stand will normally be of synthetic plastics material and secured to the cover. The cover in turn can then be secured by a single central screw to the under side of the pan.