Grilling Food

[barry1010]

I mean the grill found in gas and electric cookers that you put food under, not the contact type grills.
I'm wondering when people first started cooking food under a grill. Surely it would have been impossible before we had the gas and electric cooker. Who first thought of it and how did it catch on?

[Ken4155]

Barry, that's like asking who it was who first witnessed an Hen laying eggs and thought, mmmmmm.

[Hopkirk]

Is it far different from something rotating on a spit over a fire?

[Jackdaw33]

Food would be grilled over hot coals. Not much different from a barbecue.

[barry1010]

Yes, food has always been grilled over heat but I'm asking about grilling under the flame or element. Very different to rotating over a fire.

[douglas9401]

It was invented in the 18th century by a man who was sick of ash in his cheese on toast.

Elton John wrote and dedicated a song to him, Guy The Griller.

[ladybirder]

Choking here LOL.

[barry1010]

Ha ha