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.

-- 
"They took you up to midnight Mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church."

  - The Sickbed of Cuchulainn