Originally Posted by captain swoop

It's a metal bowl (on a stand) with an electric hotplate built into the lid. It makes fantastic bread, stews, muffins, cakes etc It heats and defrosts and will do perfect sausage, bacon fried eggs etc. We even did a Roast Chicken in ours. They have been around since the 1940s in the Czech Republic under that brand name. I know there were 'electric' pans available before the war in the UK.

They use very little electricity compared to a big oven so you tend to do more baking and roasting than if you had to use your full oven plus, the bowl can be washed in the sink.