Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Diverse cooker types
Patent
1998-09-30
1999-11-23
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Diverse cooker types
99400, 99426, 99446, 99448, 99450, 126 20, 126369, 219401, A47J 2700, A47J 3700, A47J 2704
Patent
active
059880457
ABSTRACT:
A utensil supporting multiple cooking environments for preparing foods is disclosed in one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention as including a cooking grill and a cover member selectively disposed in relation to a base unit comprising one or more cooking compartments. The cooking grill having a cooking surface and a collection reservoir disposed beneath at least a portion of the cooking surface. Formed in the upper cooking surface of the cooking grill are a plurality of openings. Collection channels may also be disposed along the upper cooking surface so as to provide device for feeding run-off liquids through the openings and into the underlying collection reservoir of the cooking grill. Having a dimensional size and shape substantially corresponding to the outer perimeter of the base unit, the cooking grill, when selectively disposed over the internal periphery of the base unit, facilitates a first cooking environment within the base unit. The air generally sealed within the first cooking environment may circulate around the food items retained within the various cooking compartments to provide device for preparing the food items contained therein. The cooking grill supports a second cooking environment for preparing foods, wherein liquids (i.e., water, oil, grease, etc.) may be collected from those food items disposed on or suspended above the upper cooking surface of the cooking grill. Depending upon whether the cover member is selectively positioned in supportable relation to the base unit and over the cooking grill, the second environment may facilitate the preparation of food items by means of grilling, baking, roasting and/or broiling. In addition, water may be introduced into the collection reservoir of the cooking grill to provide device for steaming the food item(s) disposed within the second environment.
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