Electric cooking device suitable for grilling and baking foodstuffs

An electric cooking device comprising a base unit that includes a lower housing, a lower cookware member mounted in said lower housing, and a first electric heating element operatively coupled to said lower cookware member for supplying heat to said lower cookware member,

• wherein said lower cookware member includes a grill plate, said grill plate having front and rear edge portions opposite to each other in a first direction, and left and right edge portions opposite to each other in a second direction transverse to the first direction and interconnecting said front and rear edge portions, said grill plate defining a plate axis that extends in the first direction and that is disposed between said left and right edge portions,
• said grill plate having a top cooking surface that inclines rearwardly and upwardly from said front edge portion to said rear edge portion relative to a horizontal plane, said top cooking surface of said grill plate further inclining downwardly from the plate axis to each of said left and right edge portions,
• said grill plate being formed with an oil-collecting hole adjacent to said front edge portion and disposed at the plate axis, said oil-collecting hole having left and right sides relative to the plate axis,
• said top cooking surface of said grill plate being formed with a plurality of curved grill ribs, each of said grill ribs including a curved left rib portion extending from said left side of said oil-collecting hole to the plate axis, and a curved right rib portion extending from the plate axis to said right side of said oil-collecting hole,
• said grill ribs having different arc lengths and intersecting the plate axis at different distances with respect to said oil-collecting hole such that longer ones of said grill ribs surround shorter ones of said grill ribs.