A flat cooking surface, usually made of metal, used for cooking pancakes, eggs, or other foods.
From Old French 'gredil,' derived from Latin 'craticula' meaning 'small grating or grille.' The word originally meant a grill or grated cooking surface and evolved to mean the flat metal plate used in kitchens.
The word 'griddle' has the same root as 'grating' and 'grid'—they all come from the idea of a framework with lines or spaces, which is why old griddles actually had visible grid patterns pressed into them!
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