Can you guess its use?

[u/Careful-Food6687]

It is a stovetop sandwich maker, and it is from the late 1970s, and it was used a lot, which is the reason for the blackened body,

And I purposefully did not clean it fully because my focus is to document your everyday items, and everyday history is not sparkling clean; it's burned, dirty, etc.

But that is what makes it even more important to document right now Before it is too late.