Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<4129D674.2020807@hotmail.com>...
> John W. wrote:
> > "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<2ora5oFduf57U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> > 
> >>"tm" <tm@tmoero.invalid> wrote in message
> >>news:tm-2C3ED0.11594622082004@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> >>
> >>>I've noticed a similar problem in my own kitchen. Tried pouring cake
> >>>batter in the fish griller but that didn't work out any better than
> >>>the holiday turkey.
> >>
> >>Try the rice cooker.
> > 
> > There was a product years ago for baking cakes in the rice cooker. It
> > was supposed to taste really good, but the marketing folks that came
> > up with the original idea didn't realize the importance of the rice
> > cooker in Japanese homes (almost always has rice in it, used every day
> > for cooking rice, etc.) and the product flopped; that was in the 70s,
> > I think.
> 
> I have a vague recollection of reading about that. Think it was in one 
> of George Field's books.

From Bonsai to Levis. Good book.

John W.