Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Boiler or deep fat fryer type
Patent
1996-11-18
1999-06-22
Alexander, Reginald L.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Boiler or deep fat fryer type
99410, 99411, 126369, A47J 3712
Patent
active
059139668
ABSTRACT:
The preferred embodiment comprises an improved pan (20) (FIG. 1) that can also be used as a steaming utensil on top of an ordinary pot; the pan comprises a receptacle (30) that has a flat bottom (32) and a side wall (34) whose top edge has a chord-truncated circular shape and a flange (42). The area defined by the chord-truncated circular shape is made as large as desired without voiding access to the pot below and without increasing the predetermined radius of the receptacle. The above preferred embodiment can also have a multiplicity of holes (33) in the bottom (FIG. 9). The preferred embodiment is not restricted to an outer pot of given radius; it can be used on top of a variety of pots with radii within a determined range. The combination of the pan and the pot below behaves effectively as a double-compartment vessel. If the lid of the pot below is placed on top of the flange, the steam is substantially diverted toward the receptacle. Thus, the non-perforated preferred embodiment supersedes conventional pans and steamers by giving substantially identical performance thereover while additionally having: (a) a unique, eye-catching design, (b) the functionality of a double-boiler (careful heating of sauces or steaming of vegetables in the receptacle while boiling another substance in the pot below), and (c) an optimal capacity without voiding access to the pot below. In spite of its novel form, all the above multi-functionality is embedded within the familiar shape of a pan. The simple, yet unique, design of the invention, together with its universality of use, has important implications for the marketing of cookware sets whose pan of smallest capacity has been substituted by the pan of the present invention.
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