Salamander
It is creating the perfectly melted cheddar cheese on a hamburger or the browned cheese topping on a bowl of french onion soup, a specialized piece of kitchen equipment called a salamander broiler or sometimes just a salamander can be the perfect tool. Professional chefs use a salamander broiler for a number of purposes, such as broiling fish, melting cheese or caramelizing sugar. Sometimes, a commercial kitchen will use a long salamander broiler as "pass through" equipment between the kitchen and servers, with the chef preparing the dish on one side of the broiler and placing it inside. A trained server or assistant cook removes the dish from the other side and serves it to customers.
