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SOLVED: This apparently is a baking dish. Thrift store find for my wife. But why is there a hole in the side? What is it? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
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Oh, and it's LARGE. That's my range it's sitting on, and it covers about 2/3 of it.

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[–] 126 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

That is a Crock Grill with the burner and grill missing. I had one back in the early 2000s. The hole is for where the burner plugs into the power supply/thermostat thing. Was actually a great cooking implement, and you should try to find the rest of the parts.

Edit : heres a link to an eBay listing of the model I had.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/145671303443?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=RH7P2VcDQvi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=p2MN37FYToe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

More edit: this looks like your model

https://www.ebay.com/itm/145652002143?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=AGL6bCKiRZy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=p2MN37FYToe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    THAT IS IT!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I knew the second I scrolled it into view. I miss mine. Might buy one off eBay now than you have reminded me of their existence.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Only one sensible person out of like 30 hare brained suggestions.

    "mAyBe It'S fOr SqUeEzInG dOuGh From." -everyone else

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    People just can't resist the urge to say something, even if it's useless. Especially if it's useless. (Even me, here I am saying something.)

    But in this particular community, if you don't actually know with certainty what something is it doesn't seem to hard to just shut the fuck up. There's no value whatsoever in conjecture. I had no idea what the hell this thing was but I was interested to find out, but I sure as hell didn't feel the need to speculate...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Engagement helps posts in various algorithms, though I'm not sure that Lemmy uses comments for Hot or anything else. More importantly, I think there's truth to the meme that the quickest way to get an answer to your question on the internet isn't to ask the question, it's to tell someone else the wrong answer. People will then chime in with the right answer if they know it. Wrong answers can be useful in that respect.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Eh, guessing is fun and you could only know by having had one. I did enjoy just how silly some of the wrong answers were. This might be the first time I was the only one who knew a thing, too, so that was cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had no idea this was a thing. Super interesting, thanks for sharing!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Basically a countertop upside down electric broiler. I used the hell out of mine until my X-w broke it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I love that they call it smokeless. Sure it is, as long as you never cook anything in it! All you need is a drop of grease or juice from your food to drip on the element and it smoked. Mine had an aluminum reflector/liner in the bottom that stained like a bitch. I stopped using it because it was too much of a headache to keep clean.

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    • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Wrong answers only in reply to this one ⤵️

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    • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Some sort of detachable handle would be my guess

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    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    https://pi-hole.net/

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    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So you can look in and see how the pie is cooking and if the center is done yet.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

    The inset ridge at the top makes me think maybe it had a lid at one point? Looks like you could cook a turkey in it, I wonder if it was itself a small electric oven, but now is missing the lid, rack, and heating element? That would explain the hole and the size.

    The feet on the bottom really don't seem practical for an oven rack, completely unnecessary if that's what it's for.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Some people say handle. I think it’s to have an electronic device slotted in to do something inside while it’s in the oven. Not sure it was intended for baking food.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Are you sure it’s a food item? It this was used as an electrical insulator, it could have trace amounts of highly toxic and carcinogenic oil. I would not use it for anything before positively identifying it.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Could be the lid of a deeper dish.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Does it say where it was made anywhere on it? Like which country? That may give us a clue

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Could it be a lid and the hole is for steam to escape?

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    • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Any stamp of any sort on the bottom?

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    • [+] 1 point 2 years ago
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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I guess for storage, so you could hang it on a hook at the wall

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It looks like a slow cooker insert, but I can’t for the life of me figure out the hole.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Whatever you bought there: It's not usable for much with that hole.

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    [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Maybe it’s a drainage pan of some sorts and the hole is overflow?

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    [–] -4 points 2 years ago

    might be a bedpan. hole is for your thumb. I heard of bedpans making it to thrift stores before

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