Abstract: A grill device includes a base unit, a seasoning retaining vessel, and a seasoning supply unit. The base unit includes a housing, a cooking member mounted in the housing, and at least one supply tube connected to the cooking member and extending downwardly relative to the cooking member. The vessel has a tube immersing portion disposed under the cooking member for extension of the supply tube thereinto, and a container mounting portion in fluid communication with the tube immersing portion. The seasoning supplying unit includes a flow control member connected to a container member and mounted adjustably in the container mounting portion. The flow control member controls the flow of seasoning in the container member into the vessel in accordance with the level of the seasoning in the vessel.

Abstract: A portable electric grilling appliance (20) for household use which has first and second heating units (22, 24) which, in use, overlie one another has substantially identical housing shells to make it evident to the user that the grilling appliance (20) can be used with either one of the heating units as the lower heating unit and provide support for the other heating unit. The two heating units (22, 24) have substantially the same exterior appearance and both are designed to function as either the top heating unit or the bottom heating unit. The two heating units (22, 24) are substantially symmetrical about a horizontal plane extending between them when the heating elements are arranged one on top of the other to indicate to the user of the appliance that either heating unit could be placed on top and the other on the bottom.

Abstract: A fry pan with its position angle adjustable includes a body, a tightening device and a base. The body has an upper plate and a lower plate capable of being tightened by the tightening device. The body has a shaft and is pivotally connected to the base by the shaft. The base has a position device connected with the body. The body can be adjusted in its desired position angle by the shaft functioning as a pivot and then is tightened by the position device at the adjusted sloping angle for fat to flow down easily.

Abstract: A base unit of an electric cooking device includes a grill plate that has front and rear edge portions opposite to each other along a plate axis. An oil-collecting hole is formed adjacent to the front edge portion. The grill plate has a top cooking surface that inclines rearwardly and upwardly from the front edge portion to the rear edge portion, that inclines downwardly from the plate axis to left and right edge portions of the grill plate, and that is formed with a plurality of curved grill ribs, each of which includes a portion extending from the left side of the oil-collecting hole to the plate axis, and a portion extending from the plate axis to the right side of the oil-collecting hole.

Abstract: A dual level waffle iron having a central waffle iron section, a first cover member, and a second cover member. The central waffle iron section and each of the cover members includes a grid array having a cavities and channels connecting the cavities. The central waffle iron section rotates about the longitudinal axis of the dual level waffle iron and further includes pins for preventing the central waffle iron section for rotating unless desired. The cover members further include an adjustment mechanism for varying the distance between the grid arrays in the cover member and the grid arrays in the central waffle iron section. A cutting tool for separating cooked waffles in the cavities is also provided along with a waffle batter dispenser for filling the cavities with waffle batter quickly and easily.

Abstract: An appliance comprising a housing consisting of two articulated shells maintained spaced apart by a spring (4) two hot plates (5,6) arranged in the housing, locking elements for maintaining the housing closed countering the spring, elements for adjusting (12) cooking parameters, and elements for controlling the locking elements to urge them in unlocked position in accordance with cooking parameters, thereby controlling the opening of the housing under the effect of the spring (4). The locking elements include a locking component linked to one of the shells (1) so as to be mobile between an unlocked position wherein it co-operates with a locking finger (24) integral with the other shell (2), a spring for urging back the locking component in unlocked position, and a relay magnet (25) controlled by the control elements, for maintaining the locking component in locked position.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cooking appliance comprising a shell (4) and a control knob (7) mobile relative to the shell (4) which comprises a heating element and bears a removable hot plate fixed on the heating element by at least one means (1) and releasable by moving said means (1). The invention is characterised in that the appliance comprises a lever (8) forming a crank-shaft assembly pivoting about a pin (12) whereby it is fixed to the shell (4); one part of the lever (20) co-operates with the knob (7) and another part (19) drives the locking means (1) when the knob is stressed and acts on the lever (8).

Abstract: A waffle baker grill for producing a waffle product, including a first heating plate having a first surface and a first peripheral wall extending from the first surface to a predetermined distance. The first peripheral wall includes a first side and a second side. A second heating plate has a second surface and a second peripheral wall extending from the second surface to the predetermined distance. The second peripheral wall includes at least a third side and a fourth side. The second heating plate is pivotally connected to the first heating plate to move between a closed position and an open position. The first and second surfaces include at least one scoring flange extending to a distance less than the predetermined distance. The waffle produced from the grill may be divided into a plurality of waffle sticks along score lines created by the scoring flanges.

Abstract: A griller includes upper and lower cooking grill members, and a temperature sensing device mounted removably on the housing of one of the grill members. The temperature sensing device includes a casing, a temperature sensing probe, a user input unit, a processor unit, a display unit, and an alarm unit. The temperature sensing probe generates a sensor output corresponding to a cooking temperature detected thereby. The user input unit is operable so as to provide a cooking time setting. The processor unit receives the sensor output and the cooking time setting, and is operable in a timer mode, wherein the processor unit generates an alarm activate signal for activating the alarm unit upon detection by the processor unit that a predetermined time period corresponding to the cooking time setting has elapsed.

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.

Abstract: A cooking device comprises two L-shaped supports, a lower cooking plate on the supports, an upper cooking plate matingly engaged with the lower plate and including a hollow protrusion at either side, a handle pivotably secured to the supports and including two first side slots, two sliding members inserted through the first slots and the protrusions for pivotably securing the upper plate to the handle and being adjustable for taking account of variations in thickness of steaks, and a second side slot adjacent one first slot, and a fastening mechanism secured to the handle. The device further guides oil drops formed by the thoroughly cooked steaks to flow from the pivoted, slanted upper plate to the lower plate, and is capable of standing upright for saving storage.

Abstract: A cooking device comprises a lower cooking plate including a flat top area, parallel, widthwise ribs on the top area, and pairs of arcuate, opposite projections on the top area; an upper cooking plate including a flat bottom area, parallel, widthwise ribs on the bottom area, and holes at the bottom area; and a temperature sensor including a circuit board in the upper plate, temperature sensing units disposed at the holes and being coupled to the circuit board, and an indicator lamp on the device. Foodstuffs placed in the pairs of arcuate, opposite projection are held in position by the ribs with the pointed ends of the sensing units inserted into the foodstuffs. Temperature of the foodstuffs is sensed by the sensing units. Further, the lamp is lit if the foodstuffs are thoroughly cooked.

Abstract: A barbecue grill with an adjustment device comprises a cover, a rack, a post, a tooth plate, an adjusting gear, a spring, a knob, a bolt and a nut, wherein the tooth plate has teeth along one inner side, and the knob comprises a threaded hole, the adjusting gear meshes with the teeth of the tooth plate, the bolt is inserted through the knob, the spring, the adjusting gear, the cover, and: is tightened by the nut from the other end. This secures the tooth plate to the cover while the post of the rack is placed in the tooth plate. When the knob is turned to loosen the adjusting gear, the adjusting gear is able to adjust with respect to the teeth of the tooth plate and the gap between the cover and the rack is adjustable.

Abstract: An electric cooking appliance with reversible cooking elements. A base carries two pivoted contact boxes. Each contact box includes a support surface for receiving a cooking element including a sleeve for supporting the cooking element on the contact box. Each cooking element is molded with an integral, internal heating element and desired cooking surfaces. Reversal of cooking surfaces is accomplished by removing, flipping and reversing the cooking element with its internal heating element on its contact box.

Abstract: A steam grill includes a body, an upper lid, a water-storing member positioned on the upper lid, a beating section provided in the interior of the body, a dripping controller, and a grilling section under the heating section. The dripping controller is positioned within the water-storing member and controls the water volume dropping in the heating section. The heating section has a plurality of heating tubes for heating up water into steam to be supplied in the grilled section to moisten the food put on a grill plate therein to the proper degree so that the grilled food may have proper moisture and texture.

Abstract: A grill device includes a connecting unit which pivotally connects upper and lower grill units.

Abstract: A grill device includes an upper grill unit pivoted to a lower grill unit so as to rotate about an axis between an open position, and a closed position, in which, the upper and lower grill units cooperatively define a cooking space therebetween. A seasoning supplying unit includes a vessel mounted in the cooking space to receive a body of seasonings in liquid form, and a thermal conductive dispenser. The thermal conductive dispenser is extendible into the vessel when the upper grill unit is positioned at the closed position, and defines a plurality of channels. Each of the channel has an inlet that is immersed in seasonings in the vessel, and an outlet that is exposed from the vessel when the upper grill unit is positioned at the closed position.

Abstract: A hands free tortilla forming machine for molding dough balls into a tortilla shell. The forming machine includes a forming portion, a linkage mechanism, a vertically extending hinge block, and a foot pedal which can be mounted to a moveable cart. The forming portion includes a base having an upwardly facing forming surface and a base having an downwardly facing forming surface. The vertically extending hinge block beings mounted relative to the base and having a first end facing the base and a second end opposite to the first end. The rear end of the push member includes a lever arm which protrudes from its rear end and which is pivotally interengaged with the hinge block at a hinge point. This provides for relative rotation of the push member relative to the base about a member axis between an access position and a formed position. The lever further includes a second pivot spaced from the first pivot which interengages with the linkage mechanism.

Abstract: A grill device includes a U-shaped frame that is pivoted to a lower grill unit and that has two lateral arms. An upper grill unit is disposed between and is pivoted to the lateral arms by two first pivots. A space adjusting unit includes second, third and fourth pivots, and pivotally connected first and second links. The first link is pivoted to the upper grill unit via the second pivot which is disposed frontwardly of and which extends in a direction parallel to the first pivot. The second link is pivoted to the first link and one of the lateral arms via the third and fourth pivots, respectively, which extend in directions parallel to the first pivots.

Abstract: A removable platen for a sandwich maker is heated by an electric heating element embedded in a supporting platform. The platform has an upstanding channel that surrounds the electric heating element and the platen has an integrally formed footprint that fits snugly against the upstanding channel. This provides a good heat exchanging contact surfaces for conducting heat from the heating element to the platen in use, even though the platen can he removed for cleaning and washing.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an object to attenuate thermal sensation when handling the object at non-body temperature, and an object fabricated in accord with the method. There is first provided a substrate which has a first surface subject to handling. There is then formed upon the first surface of the substrate a coating. The coating has an optimal density, an optimal thermal conductivity and an optimal thickness such that when the substrate having the coating formed thereupon is equilibrated at a non-body temperature differing from a body temperature and the coating is subsequently contacted with a body at the body temperature during handling, the temperature of the surface of the coating at a contact point of the body with the coating changes precipitously to a temperature near the body temperature and subsequently returns towards the non-body temperature at a rate which permits handling of the coating at the location of the first surface of the substrate by the body with attenuated thermal sensation.

Abstract: A waffle maker includes upper and lower waffle grids coupled to each other and configured to confine a cooking space when closed together. The cooking space is adapted to receive batter therein. An electric heater unit is operable so as to heat and cook the batter in the cooking space for making a waffle. A temperature control circuit controls heating operation of the electric heater unit, and includes a heater controller for controlling supply of electric power to the electric heater unit, a sensor unit for detecting cooking temperature in the cooking space and for generating a sensor output corresponding to the cooking temperature, a user input unit operable so as to provide a cooking temperature setting, and a processor unit for controlling operation of the heater controller in accordance with the sensor output from the sensor unit and the cooking temperature setting from the user input unit.

Abstract: A baking assembly for preparing a baked filled waffle is disclosed. The baking assembly comprises an upper plate and a lower plate each of the plates having a baking surface with a plurality of outer pyramids and a plurality of inner pyramids. Each of the outer pyramids have a height that is greater than the height of the inner pyramids. The upper plate is receivable on the lower plate and when so received the outer pyramids of the upper plate align with the outer pyramids of the inner plate to form a plurality of pinch points. The inner pyramids of the upper plate align with the inner pyramids of the lower plate when the upper plate is received on the lower plate and thereby form a pocket region defined between the inner pyramids of the upper plate and the inner pyramids of the lower plate.

Abstract: A grill device includes two independently controllable cooking sets confining two isolated cooking spaces such that two different meat pieces can be grilled therein under different cooking temperatures at the same time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sandwich consisting of two toasted slices of bread and an edible filling placed between said slices. According to the invention, the filling is essentially arranged in the inner region of the surfaces of the slices of bread and the slices of bread are pressed together in a peripheral edge area with greater force than in the inner region so that the slices of bread adhere to each other and form a cohesive sandwich arrangement, whereby the filling is packed between the slices of bread. The invention also relates to a method for the production of a toasted sandwich that consists of two slices of bread and an edible filling placed between said slices. According to the invention, the filling is initially and essentially arranged in the inner region of the surface of a first underlying slice of bread. A second slice of bread is subsequently placed thereon.

Abstract: The invention relates to a set of baking moulds for food products such as hams, including a plurality of moulds mounted on a support frame (5, 6), each mould comprising a trough (2) with a generally U-shaped transverse section in order to form a bottom (13) and two side walls (4).

Abstract: A grill device includes a lower grill unit with a lower cooking member, and a frame pivoted to a rear side of the lower grill unit so as to be turnable rearwardly relative to the lower grill unit. The frame has two lateral arms defining therebetween a receiving space and confining the lower cooking member therebetween when the frame is at a closed position relative to the lower grill unit. An upper grill unit is disposed in the receiving space, is pivoted to the lateral arms of the frame so as to be turnable relative to the frame, has an upper cooking member which is registered with and which is electrically coupled to the lower cooking member of the lower grill units, and cooperates with the lower grill unit to confine a cooking space therebetween when the frame is at the closed position.

Abstract: Prior ice cream cone baking machines were manually raised and lowered, causing the cone to be sometimes overcooked or burnt. The present invention automatically raises the upper cooking plate after a pre-set cooking time, and maintains the baked cake at a warm temperature until removed from the lower cooking plate.

Abstract: The present invention comprises an automated chromium-covered dual surface cooking system comprising one or more electric actuators that raise and lower one or more cooking heads before and after foodstuffs are cooked and audibly tell the user when the cooking is completed. The cooking system further comprises LED timer and temperature displays and a leveling system that maintains the upper cooking surface a requisite distance from the food to be grilled.

Abstract: The invention is to provide an oven comprising an oven body which includes a base and a top cover pivotally connected with the base; a chamber, comprising an upper board fixed on the top cover and a lower board fixed on the base; and a water injection mechanism positioned between the top cover and the upper board. By continuously supplying water to the chamber, the oven can effectively prevent the food from over-dehydration and guarantee the freshness of the roasted food.

Abstract: A grill device includes an annular bottom wall adapted to be placed above a flat support, and outer and inner annular walls which extend uprightly from outer and inner annular peripheries of the bottom wall to form outer and inner upper annular edges and which cooperate with the bottom wall to confine an annular fluid collecting groove. A lower cooking member includes upper and lower major walls normal to a central line. The upper major wall includes an outer circumferential area integrally formed with and extending inwardly from the upper inner annular edge, and a central area that is raised so as to be higher than the outer circumferential area. The lower major wall is punched upwardly to form a plurality of first and second ridge portions respectively in the central and outer circumferential areas. The first and second ridge portions are of such heights so that the respective first ridge portion is not higher than the respective second ridge portion.

Abstract: A food grill assembly for cooking a food product is disclosed which comprises a base, a lower platen ensemble associated with the base, the lower platen ensemble having a heat source and a surface upon which a food product to be cooked is placed, the lower platen ensemble further comprising a back wall and a pair of side walls which are integral with the lower platen ensemble with the walls forming a splash guard, an upper platen ensemble having a heat source, the upper platen ensemble having a surface which is adapted to be in contact with a food product to be cooked, a counterbalance assembly connected to the base, and a handle mechanism connected to the counterbalance assembly and the upper platen ensemble for providing pivoting movement of the upper platen assembly relative to the base, the counterbalance assembly for leveling the upper platen assembly relative to the lower platen assembly when the upper platen assembly is within a predetermined distance from the lower platen assembly.

Abstract: A tortilla forming machine for molding dough into a tortilla shell having a top, a bottom, a peripheral edge, and a thickness. The forming machine includes a first member having a first forming surface, a second member having a second forming surface moveable toward and away from the first forming surface, and at least one removable sizing ring. The sizing ring includes a first edge and an opposing second edge, an inner surface and a height defining a cavity between the first and second forming surfaces when the first forming surface is adjacent the first edge and the second forming surface is adjacent the second edge such that the inner surface of the ring forms the peripheral edge of the tortilla shell and the height of the ring forms the thickness of the tortilla shell.

Abstract: The flatbread maker includes a support structure which has a base portion, a short rear portion and an upper portion, wherein the upper portion angles upwardly as it extends forwardly from the rear portion, wherein the base portion includes a central track which extends inwardly from the front edge for receiving a roller element portion of an actuating arm. The actuating arm is generally L-shaped, having a roller element at the joining portion between vertical and lower leg portions thereof, the roller element being configured and arranged to slide along the track when the vertical leg portion of the arm is rotated downwardly, such that the roller element moves along the track and the free end of the lower leg moves upwardly, forcing a lower flatbread plate which is hinged to the rear portion of the support structure to rotate thereabout into a position adjacent an angled lower surface of the upper portion. This results in the pressing, heating and partial cooking of the flatbread.

Abstract: An apparatus for baking thin-walled shaped bodies has a baking shaft defining adjacent up and down paths and a respective stack of pairs of cavity-forming baking plates in the shaft at each of the paths. A heater in the shaft heats the stacks between upper and lower ends thereof. A lower transporter conveys plates from the lower end of the down-path stack to the lower end of the up-path stack and an upper transporter conveys plates from the upper end of the up-path stack to the upper end of the down-path stack. Upper and lower fillers and strippers above the respective upper and lower transporter deposit a bakable preproduct on the plates and for removing a baked product from the plates. The plates are transferred from the downstream end of the lower transporter to the lower end of the up stack which is thus stepped upward, and are transferred from the lower end of the down stack to the upstream end of the lower transporter to step the down stack downward.

Abstract: A grilling appliance has two housing sections provided with heating plates and connected to each other by means of a pivotable/slidable hinge construction at both sides of the appliance. The housing sections can be positioned with respect to each other in several positions in which the heating plates should remain parallel to each other. In order to improve the hinge construction a parallel guiding mechanism has been provided, which mechanism comprises a U-shaped rod (9) having a central portion (10) which can slide in slots (7, 8) of the first housing section (1) and having arms (11, 12) carrying trunnions (13, 14) which are pivotable in the second housing section (2) and slidable in the first housing section (1).

Abstract: An apparatus and method easily and quickly produce multiple holes in a dough layer. An apparatus according to the invention includes a top portion, a number of pins supported by the top portion in a fixed pattern, and a base portion having a number of holes arranged in a fixed pattern corresponding to the pins of the top portion. Structure, such as a hinge, is provided to lower the top portion toward the base portion and to guide the pins through a dough layer placed between the top portion and base portion and into the holes. A number of openings in the dough layer are thus produced. A corresponding method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A baking oven has a multiplicity of baking sheet units stacked one above the other and added to below, after bakable mass has been deposited on a lower most member of the stack, so that the individual molds formed by each upper and lower sheet are closed and held closed by the weight of the sheets above it. The sheets are separated at the top of the stack and recycled to the bottom to receive a new portion of the bakable material.

Abstract: A cooking device for evenly cooking the food without having to turn the food over in the cooking vessel. The cooking device includes a bottom heating member which includes a housing having a top side with one or two heating elements securely disposed in the top side; and also includes a top heating member which includes a housing having a top side and a bottom side and having one or two heating elements securely disposed in the bottom side; and further includes a plurality of support members for supporting the top heating member above the bottom heating member.

Abstract: A waffle baker is disclosed which is of tubular frame construction having a pair of shell members which have a food receiving part, a handle, and a hinge. The shell members include a heater coil for connecting to a power source and a thermocouple to monitor the heat index of the shell members. A timing system is incorporated into the system, preferably through a magnetic and proximity switch, such that the baker turning and cooking time is monitored with either visual and/or audio warnings.

Abstract: Wafers that are shaped, for example, as a basin (C) are obtained from an intermediate product (P) in which the aforesaid shaped parts are joined together by a substantially flat base part (A). The shaped parts (C) have a thickness of the order of, for example, 1-1.5 mm compared with the significantly greater thickness, of the order of 2.2-2.5 mm, of the base part (A). In this way it is possible to extract the intermediate product (P) from the cooking mold safely and without the risk of breakage, even when the shaped parts (C) have much thinner walls.

Abstract: An apparatus for compressing and baking fluid food under pressure to form unified shaped products has a heated metal mold bottom with a cavity and a heated metal mold top connected to the piston rod of a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder positioned for alternately pressing the mold top down against the mold bottom and lifting it away from the mold bottom. A hinge-like connection attached along a side of the mold bottom and a reversible drive mechanism associated with the hinge-like connection serve to swing the mold bottom over to an inverted position and then back to the molding position. The simple apparatus automatically ejects the molded food product from the inverted mold bottom. A siamese pair of mold bottoms united back-to-back are preferred for large-scale production of molded food shapes. Every inversion of a siamese pair of mold bottoms can discharge a molded product and form another molded product.

Abstract: A baking apparatus for the production of foamed carbohydrate-based baked products which expand during the baking process has a baking tongs with a pair of tong parts hinged together and a baking mold whose mold halves are each received in a respective one of the tong parts. The hinge has hinge sections connected by two pivot pins with pivot axes offset from one another and enabling a change in the volume of the baking mold. Opposite the hinge sections, a holding device can hold the baking tongs closed.

Abstract: A food heating device such as a sandwich toaster or contact grill, comprising two hingedly connected parts (1) upon which heating elements (6) fixed within heat distribution bodies (7) are mounted. Contact plates (9) against which the food is heated are arranged to abut the heat distribution bodies (7) via complementary curved contact surfaces to provide improved heat distribution. The contact plates can be detached from the food heating device, thereby allowing for easy cleaning.

Abstract: A household electric flat bread making appliance has a heated lower pressure plate fixed to a frame, an upwardly biased upper heated pressure plate pivotally mounted on the frame, and a heated skillet mounted on the frame in general vertical alignment with the pressure plates. A handle is connected to the upper pressure plate to enable the upper pressure plate to be manually pivoted downwardly toward the lower pressure plate to flatten a mass of dough between the two pressure plates.

Abstract: A microprocessor controlled grill apparatus for simultaneous two-sided cooking of food items. The grill apparatus includes a stationary lower cooking platen, and an upper cooking platen which is raised and lowered by a unique linear actuator. This actuator provides for two distinct types and phases of movement. The upper platen is lowered from its uppermost, angled open position first by an arcing movement which rotates the rear edge of the upper platen about a slide or thrust bearing and arcs the front edge of the upper platen downward until the upper platen is substantially parallel to but raised, or floating, above the lower platen and uncooked food. Next, the linear actuator lowers the upper platen toward the food, while keeping the upper platen horizontal and parallel to the lower platen.

Abstract: Prior ice cream cone baking machines were manually raised and lowered, causing the cone to be sometimes overcooked or burnt. The present invention automatically raises the upper cooking plate after a pre-set cooking time, and maintains the baked cake at a warm temperature until removed from the lower cooking plate.

Abstract: A cooking grill having upper and lower cooking plates supported between first and second supports is disclosed. The upper and lower cooking plates are each hingedly connected to the supports at a rear hinge axis. The upper cooking plate may be manually tipped to a raised position. The lower cooking plate is automatically tipped downwardly to a food ejection or second position by means of an actuator. An ejector may be provided for positively ejecting the cooked food at the end of the cooking cycle, onto a support or receiving tray, from which cooked food may be removed by hand. Alternatively, the lower cooking plate may be rotated past the second position to a removed, where the cooked food may then be removed by hand.

Abstract: A method for forming and baking food particles into a unified, shaped product, e.g., shaped like pizza, has heated top and bottom plates, the mating faces of which have recesses and protrusions for molding the desired shaped product. The bottom plate is in two parts that are abutted together when food particles are deposited thereon and during a baking period with the top plate placed thereon. After raising the top plate, the two bottom parts are moved apart to release the baked, shaped product. Cooked pasta, such as spaghetti, can be formed into a pizza-like shell.

Abstract: A waffle-iron type cooking apparatus is used as an apparatus for cooking and forming one or more sandwiches. Each sandwich has a totally encircling cooked waffle-type substance, with a filling opening, leading to a filling cavity, on one end and with the other end being unopened. In this way, the product of the apparatus is such that a filling can be conveniently added into the cavity, after cooking, to present a novel, and yet convenient, sandwich for eating without the filling leaking from the side edges of the sandwich. Alternatively, the filling can be re-inserted to the apparatus after being placed in the cavity formed thereby, for further cooking by the apparatus, in those cases where it is preferable to heat the filling as well.