Chrome plated omelette pan

Although called an omelette pan, magicians usually used this apparatus to bake a cake. The performer breaks an egg into a glass and beats it up with a little milk. The mixture is then poured onto the silver plate, stirred and poured into a borrowed hat. The hat might be held over a candle flame to cook the cake. The performer then removes a genuine cake from the hat which is returned to its owner undamaged. The cake may be enjoyed by the audience. Early magic props were nickel plated rather than chrome plated, which became much more popular from the 1950s onwards. The design of this pan is similar to the Davenport DEMON stamped example, but it has no stamp, so may be from another supplier. The pan was found with some instructions from Morrissey Magic Ltd, Montreal, Canada, who may well be the source of this pan. The instructions call the trick ‘Omelette pan or Egg-in-the-hat trick’ and include a routine by Bruce Posgate.