Abstract: This appliance comprises a pair of plates made of a material that conducts heat well which are heated electrically and are hinged to each other, each of these plates having a cooking surface, which two cooking surfaces can be brought toward each other by pivoting one plate onto the other in order to cook a food product which is clamped between them, the rear or non-cooking surface of each of these plates having a depression with a flat base whose area is large; in accordance with disclosure, a heating module whose shape is complementary to that of said depression is fitted into and fixed removably inside the latter, this module being provided with a shielded electric resistor capable of heating said plate and is supplied with electric current.

Abstract: A gas apparatus for heating and/or cooking food. The apparatus includes a housing having a lower body where a gas/air mixture to burnt is received and a top part in the form of a plate designed to be urged to rest on the body. Orifices are provided in the housing for the outflow and combustion of the gas/air mixture. The plate's upper surface forms a surface for receiving food to be heated and/or cooked, and the housing has a sinuous outline with radial branches arranged such that the outflow and combustion of the gas/air mixture take place in the central, peripheral and radial zones of the surface beneath the top part.