Other forms: griddles
A griddle is a flat hot metal plate for cooking pancakes. Heat the griddle, a cast-iron griddle, cook on the griddle.
It is flat, which is the whole difference from a grill pan with its ridges, and the flatness is what suits batter. Cast iron holds heat well enough not to drop when cold batter goes on, and it is the traditional material for that reason.
1noungriddleA flat hot metal plate for cooking pancakes.
“The pancakes were cooked on a hot griddle.”
Patterna hot griddle · cook sth on a griddle · griddle pan · griddled + noun
griddle is a cooking surface.
It is the same word as grill, from the same Latin — but a griddle is flat and solid, for pancakes that would fall through the bars of a grill.
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Old French greil comes from Latin craticulum, a small grate. Grill and grate are relatives.
Latin
crāticulum
Old French
greil
Anglo-Norman
gredil
Middle English
gridil
English, today
griddle
From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. a doublet of grill, from the same Old French and Latin sources, a doublet of grate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA