A gridle is a piece of cooking equipment. It is a flat plate of metal of appropriate thickness, usually aluminium, stainless steel or cast iron. It is used for cooking fried items like pancakes, oatcakes, grilled cheese, unleavened breads (roti or chapati), dosa and Welsh cakes. Griddles originally were a flat metal surfaces for frying suspended from hooks over a campfire or fireplace. Later versions were sometimes integrated into the tops of woodfired cookstoves as a removable iron plate and later as a separate plate that covered one or more burners on a gas or electric stove. These often have no handle. A traditional Welsh griddle is circular with a one-piece handle, typically cast iron, 1 cm (½ inch) in thickness. It is used to cook Welsh cakes, pikelets, and crepes. Nowadays, aluminium griddles come with nonstick coating or are anodised. Standalone electric griddles are sometimes referred to as "grills" like the George Foreman Grill.