Plural food support

Mechanism for applying a squeezing force to a food product in a mold, including a fluid motor driving a reciprocal rod for engaging and applying a force to a plug movably positionable within the mold. The reciprocal rod is driven by the fluid motor to move the plug into the mold until the resisting force...     

A system for cooking spaghetti and similar pasta products includes a cooking section and a storage section with means for supplying water alternately to either section. The cooking section is equipped with a cook pot having conventional electric or gas heaters for heating water to cook spaghetti. A cooking...     

A cooking pan assembly is provided which has particular utility in the industrial cooking of food, such as tuna fish. The cooking pan is particularly constructed so that it may conveniently be transported on usual conveyors within the cooking facility. Crimped wire-formed ends are provided for the pan...     

In a pit-type slow cooking apparatus, smoldering fuel elements are held on a substantially balanced seesaw support near and above a heating element in the bottom of the pit or enclosure. Food is supported at elevations above the smoldering solid fuel. As the fuel is slowly consumed without open burning...     

A frying basket for supporting food items, such as pies, to be cooked in an immersed position in a cooking medium. The frying basket has a back wall and two end walls defining an accessible front food loading area opposite the back wall. In the basket, on horizontal supports, are two shelves comprising...     

Electric commercial cooking apparatus having a cylindrical body with dome top and bottom and a vertically hinged door. The apparatus has a thermostat controlled electrical heating element affixed to the bottom dome. The heating element serves as a heat supply and to generate smoke from combustible material...     

The present invention is a utensil for cooking bakery products in microwave ovens. The utensil is fabricated from essentially microwave transparent material and is constructed without a bottom, thereby providing a utensil for cooking bakery products uniformly throughout. The utensil is also constructed...     

Apparatus for cooking various food items. The apparatus includes an enclosed cooking compartment disposed a spaced distance above a reservoir which contains a quantity of cooking oil. A rack is provided for suspending the items of food at spaced apart distances one from the other within the cooking compartment....     

A toaster device has a support grid mounted for rotation about a vertical axis between heating elements disposed on opposite sides thereof. Grid elements are mounted for pivotal movement on opposite edges of the support, and depending finger elements on the grids slidingly move along an inner side of...     

The invention relates to a method of heating food stuffs, especially discrete articles such as potatoes, meat and bread in a heat-insulated housing, employing heated gases circulated through the housing at high velocity. The invention is further concerned with means or apparatus for carrying out the...     

A fast food service technique in which a meal is pre-cooked and then transferred to a tray in which the food is refrigerated at a temperature just above its freezing point to preserve the meal without degrading its texture or flavor. When the food is to be made available to customers, the cold trays...     

An oven having dual-rotating mechanism whereby food-holding elements are arranged to be conveyed about the periphery of the inner housing of the oven, at which time the food-holding elements are individually rotated about their own axes, causing a dual-rotisserie action. The opposite ends of the food-holding...     

A food defrost and cooking apparatus includes a drum and a stand. The drum's position may be freely changed on the stand to shift the food in the drum during defrosting and cooking, but motion of the drum is limited by a camming arrangement between the stand and drum and a stop. The drum is also optionally...     

A cooking assembly includes a heating plate and two identical outer plates each fabricated of heat conductive material and each including a handle. The outer plates and the heating plate each include a hinge to allow the outer plates to be coupled to opposite sides of the heating plate. Each of the first...     

A cooking and assembly unit is primarily for use in the quantity production of sandwiches, such as hamburger sandwiches including a patty, a bun crown and a bun heel. The unit includes a storage compartment for a number of individual trays each carrying one or more bun heels or bun crowns. The storage...     

A hickory wood cooking plank for broiling or baking meats, fish, poultry and the like, in conventional home ovens. The design features a unique, aluminum support stand provided in the form of a pair of L-shaped aluminum elements which are adapted to be respectively fitted within a pair of longitudinally...     

An apparatus for heating food includes a treating chamber, a multilevel shelving in the treating chamber for supporting the food to be heated; a plurality of blowers arranged in the treating chamber; and heating elements associated with the blowers for generating hot air currents. All the blowers are...     

An electric steamer for simultaneously steaming a frankfurter and warming an accompanying frankfurter bun is disclosed herein. The steamer includes a base portion having an electric heater and a reservoir adapted to receive a small amount of water for steaming the frankfurter and steam-warming the frankfurter...     

Plural heating elements for a corresponding number of self-adjusting smoldering wood supports are independently timed and thermostatically controlled to create a wider range of adjustability and versatility in the cooker to thus widen the variety of products which can be cooked as well as refining and...     

A device for holding food articles that are impaled on sticks. The device includes a body member having first and second transverse grooves thereacross. The second transverse groove is positioned within the first transverse groove. A spring clip is positioned over the transverse grooves to selectively...     

Smoldering wood or other solid fuel near the bottom of a vertically elongated enclosure or pit produces heat and smoke which rises freely through the full width of the enclosure or pit to slowly cook food products supported on a plurality of horizontal removable grill racks above the source of heat....     

A combination outdoor Bar-B-Q smoker and grill is provided wherein multiple levels of cooking racks on runners within an enclosure are capable of being positioned either directly over a charcoal heat source at one end of the enclosure or at the other end of the enclosure where they are not exposed to...     

An economical, energy-saving apparatus for baking food products such as pretzels and the like includes an enclosed housing with an inlet for the introduction of the product to be baked and a door covering the inlet. The apparatus further includes an outlet for removal of the baked product, and a heating...     

A spacer assembly for half steam table trays includes a grid-like framework upon which are mounted a plurality of non-metallic support pads adapted to accept the corners of adjacent trays laid thereon in a rectangular pattern. The framework is fabricated of a light metal functioning structurally only...     

A cooking device (10) having a cylindrical housing (14), with a removable domed top closure (11), and supported by legs (12) radially spaced around the body is provided. The apparatus has a heat source (13) located near the bottom of the housing (14) and resting on top of the supporting legs (12). The...     

A cooking apparatus for barbecuing or smoking includes a cooking container, a support collar, and a support base which are removably secured together. The support base and the cooking container are each provided with a central air opening, and the cooking container and the support base are clamped against...     

A food warming and cooking cabinet comprising a housing having infrared reflective material on the interior surface, a source of infrared radiation located inside the housing and a support for a plurality of trays adapted to carry food thereon. The source of infrared radiation comprises two vertically...     

There is disclosed an electric hot dog cooker also suitable for cooking individual portions of sausages, shishkabob or the like, including a stand supporting an electric heating coil in the form of a helix extending horizontally; inside the helical heating coil is a hollow bushing member arranged so...     

A mobile barbecue apparatus is disclosed which comprises a firebox having wheels thereon with turnable receptacles for holding items to be cooked mounted above the firebox. The food containing receptacles are adjustable in width to accommodate different sized items such as steaks, chickens, ribs, etc.,...     

A cooker of the type having a series of vertically oriented skewers disposed in a circle about a central vertically oriented heating element, the skewers being individually rotatable relative to the heating element. In this rotary skewer cooker environment, this invention is directed to a novel food...     

By the herein cooking cone, simultaneous cooking of the inside and outer side of food is accomplished through heat flow through the center of the heat conductive cone whereby food is cooked from the center or core of the cone, while the oven heat permeates the food from the outside. The cone has an integral...     

A cooking apparatus for roasting, broiling or smoking meat or other food by hanging the item over a source of heat in a manner that the meat and the like is constantly moved to accomplish rapid and flavorful cooking. The food is carried by a series of removable hangers attached to a rack which is subjected...     

An energy efficient convection barbecue pit for uniform cooking of meat. Heated smoke from a firebox passes through a joinder flue into a cooking chamber and is there urged upward by means of an inlet baffle. A convection fan located within a discharge duct connected to the ceiling of the cooking chamber...     

A spaghetti and food cooker for cooking individual portions having a housing containing a pair of adjacent segregated temperature-controlled cooking chambers, a pivotable bracket movable from one chamber to the other, a series of perforated compartments for retaining individual food portions clustered...     

An oven in a cooking machine has a pair of spaced parallel endless conveyor chains mounted therein and driven by a motor. Pivotally supported baskets for holding food are connected normal to the conveyor chains. Electrical heating elements disposed between and above the baskets are supported in the oven...     

A rack for use with a grill having a cooking surface defined by spaced rods is formed by bending two wires that define a base and an upright article-receiving support extending above the base. The base has spaced, generally L-shaped projections that are inserted between two spaced rods and under one...     

An outdoor cooker for baking or broiling food articles includes a covered base within which there is rotatably supported a horizontal shaft above a combustion chamber. A plurality of food baskets are secured to the shaft and extend radially therefrom for movement only about the rotational axis of the...     

A cooking utensil is disclosed for use on a barbeque-type device which includes a bowl for containing a heating medium. A generally planar cooking surface has peripheral dimensions less than the cross dimensions of the upper rim of the barbeque bowl. Handles project outwardly of the cooking surface generally...     

A cooking basket for use in upwardly open cooking chamber adapted to receive a heat transfer fluid with heater means to selectively heat the heat transfer fluid where the basket is generally cylindrical in shape and adapted to be selectively disposed within the chamber with its longitudinal axis generally...     

A compact tortilla press and oven unit. The press delivers formed tortillas to the oven wherein they are toasted on a plurality of rotating oven discs. The tortilla is initially received by a first oven disc upon which a first side of the tortilla is partially toasted. Upon completion of one revolution...     

A frying basket large enough to contain two or three individual servings of a food product is equipped with a pair of removable partitions including basket divider portions and right angular basket cover portions. When in place on the frying basket, two or three individual servings can be cooked simultaneously...     

A highly compact oven for preparing barbecued foods on a commercial basis includes a cabinet having a vertical partition wall that divides its interior into an oven chamber and an equipment compartment, and a door which closes the front of the oven chamber. In addition, the oven has a rotisserie for...     

An adapter for using with a kettle-type charcoal or gas grill to cook and smoke meat, and a method of smoking meat using the adapter. The adapter includes a vertical cylindrical peripheral wall of a diameter just smaller than the kettle grill itself. Handles are attached near the top of the wall on opposite...     

A method and apparatus for cooking an egg is disclosed wherein a grill surface is provided for supporting an egg thereon and wherein a steam containment enclosure is provided to cover the grill surface. A shelled egg is placed on the grill surface under the steam containment enclosure. The grill surface...     

A barbecue cooking unit is comprised of a coal well having an open top, defined within a bottom wall and upstanding sidewalls; support legs for securing the coal well in a generally upright position; a lid depending from the rear support legs for compound degrees of movement relative thereto, being in...     

An apparatus for preparing scrambled eggs on a grill surface, wherein liquid scrambled eggs mix are placed within egg rings, each having a lower edge portion in intimate contact with a heated grill surface, and the egg rings are moved repeatedly to and fro, preferably in a reciprocating motion, while...     

An open framework rack has shoulders of progressively greater width for supporting within the rack cooking receptacles of progressively greater width one spaced above the other for efficient steam cooking within a steam chamber. The rack desirably comprises wireform risers providing stepped terraces....     

A portable barbecue grill includes an upwardly open container, legs pivotally connected to the container which can be positioned to support the container above the ground or folded up against the container, a mounting element having upwardly-extending sockets positionable within the container, tubular...     

The present invention is an automatic food cooking machine comprising a frame supporting a housing having an unobstructed opening with an adjustable heating surface at the bottom thereof. Mounted in the opening of the housing are a pair of spaced parallel endless conveyor chains supported on sprockets...     

A meat support for supporting sausage in a smokehouse has a rotor mounted for rotation upon a support vehicle. The rotor has a plurality of horizontally extending pockets formed therein, each of which is proportioned to receive and support a sausage with its longitudinal axis horizontally oriented. The...     

A portable food cooker for water smoker or direct heat cooking of food products comprising a support pedestal mounted on wheels and containing a heating unit, an open-ended wall section removably supported with a lower open end on the pedestal in communication with the heating unit and extending upwardly...     

An adjustable barbecue rack for supporting a plurality of spareribs vertically having a series of spaced upright racks extending from a main support rack. The main support rack is positioned in elevated relation within a shallow pan during cooking. The upright racks are removably secured to the main...     

A mixture of shredded potato, egg, flour, pepper, baking powder and onion are combined to form a potato pancake mixture. Discrete units of the mixture are deposited on a moving grill over a vat of cooking oil. At the discharge end of the vat of cooking oil the moving grill is raised vertically and then...     

A cooker for cooking food such as bar-b-que or the like. The cooker has a cooking tower with a rotating carrousel therein and various means for holding the food as it is being cooked. There is a heat source offset from beneath the cooking tower and positioned below a warming tower located alongside the...     

An oven in a cooking machine has a pair of spaced parallel endless conveyor chains mounted therein and driven by a motor. Pivotally supported baskets for holding food are connected normal to the conveyor chains. Electrical heating elements disposed between and above the baskets are supported in the oven...     

A utensil for use in frying eggs on a grill includes a lower frame member defining a set of cylindrical or crescent-shaped outer rings in which to fry the eggs and an upper frame member defining a corresponding set of slightly smaller inner rings that fit concentrically within the outer rings for use...     

A vertically oriented fuel bed elongate in the vertical direction provides a vertical radiant source of heat for cooking food in cooking zones on either side of the bed. A portable and collapsible grill frame is formed by light weight end rods and elongate cross rods assembled in three tiers, a top tier,...     

A cooking rack (10) for placement on a cooking surface, such as an existing shelf or tray in an oven. The cooking rack has a plurality of perforations (14) for receiving securing pins 20. A cooking utensil is placed on or under the cooking rack (10) and the securing pins (20) are placed in the perforations...     

A sausage heating machine. A plurality of baskets mounted on a framework of the machine turn with the framework. Each basket has guide members for supporting a sausage. Each guide member includes a main portion on which the sausage can roll as the framework turns. The sausage can fall crosswise of the...     

A portable device for cooking food consists of a rotatable spit and basket assembly, a housing enclosure and a mounting cart. The rotatable spit and basket assembly is positioned within the housing enclosure and is rotated by an electric motor. The housing enclosure has a hinged top and hinged doors...     

A deep fryer includes two or more sections having separate on and off switches to permit the heating of each section individually. The fluid tight construction of each section prevents the intermixing of the cooking oil so that different types of food can be concurrently cooked in each section without...     

A multipurpose cooking rack which can support large sizes of meat when in one position and smaller sizes of food items such as meat and vegetables when in an inverted position. The cooking rack is of a generally V-shaped configuration having combined handle and foot members at the ends as well as food...     

A barbeque grill apparatus having a container with a curved bottom, two sides connected to the bottom and two ends interconnecting the bottom and the sides. A shaft is rotatably attached to a top portion of the container and a plurality of arms extend radially outwardly therefrom. The arms each have...     

A multiple unit wok apparatus is provided for simultaneously cooking separate ingredients and, when cooked, the ingredients can be easily mixed together if desired. The individual wok units preferably have means for detachably interlocking each unit with another, similar unit. Embodiments include double,...     

A toaster for heating both a frankfurter and a frankfurter bun is disclosed. The toaster has a frankfurter heating chamber having associated first heating elements for heating at least two opposed surfaces of a frankfurter placed in said frankfurter heating chamber and at least one bun heating chamber...     

An egg poacher having two injection molded polypropylene portions. One portion is a cover and the other being a bottom egg receptacle. The egg receptacle portion has at least one egg compartment that is a shallow depression having a bottom wall continuous with an upwardly extending side wall. The egg...     

A multi-purpose baking and roasting rack which includes a drip pan and a plurality of upwardly directed generally vertically oriented skewer rods positioned above the interior surface of the drip pan each adapted to support and pierce a food item to be baked or roasted. The skewer rods each form part...     

A meat holding tray for supporting strips of meat such as bacon as the meat is being cooked in a microwave oven comprises a tray having a plurality of separator plates extending upwardly parallel to one another above the surface of the tray mounted upon holding racks. Slots are formed by the separation...     

A smoking for use with a patio grill of the type having an open horizontal cooking surface and means therebelow for providing heat such as by burning charcoal, an electric heating element or a gas fire, the smoker being formed of a bottom section having an open horizontal bottom with a peripheral edge...     

The present invention comprises a pivotable cooker that can be used for smoking food in one position and grilling food in another position. The housing has two open ends and is pivotable about the middle section. When one open end is disposed on top, the grill is constructed so that smoking can take...     

A smoking and baking apparatus which is characterized by a cabinet having an outer shell and an inner shell that define a smoke channel therebetween. A firebox is located in the bottom of the cabinet and a pair of spaced flanges are positioned over the firebox for receiving a removable water pan. One...     

A machine for heating, packaged or non-packaged foodstuffs. It comprises a plurality of cooking tanks (1 to 4), a central heater for hot liquid (5), a central chilling plant for cold liquid (6) and an assemblage of liquid distribution pipes and liquid conveyor pipes. The main heating tank (5) and cooling...     

An enclosed cooking apparatus for barbecuing, curing and smoking food products such as beef, chicken, pork, fish and wild game in which a combustion chamber is disposed in the base for burning a fuel source, such as charcoal and wood. Food products are supported within the cooking chamber by a plurality...     

The grill has separately adjustable left and right grill surfaces and independently controllable left and right burner portions. A removable heat shield impedes heat transfer between the left and right sides, to permit different cooking temperatures at the same time. A slotted heat distribution plate...     

A device for making a plurality of Ka-bobs includes a weighted holding base with a plurality of holes passing entirely therethrough. Each hole in the base has a countersink around it in the upper surface of the device, for the quick and easy insertion of a skewer into each hole. The device enables a...     

A grilling surface is cooled by circulating water from a reservoir. The surface is preferably formed by two parallel metal sheets which are deformed to space them apart and to form heat passageways therethrough. The sheets and the circulation passageway formed therebetween extend continuously between...     

An oven assembly (20) includes a housing (38) having a cover (50), a bottom floor (42) and a side wall (28) which define an interior cooking volume (22). an annular water trough (24) is positioned in the housing (38) proximate its interior bottom. The trough (24) includes an outer trough perimeter (26)...     

A two-part smoker assembly having a slide-detachable fire chamber engageable to a separable smoking chamber, the latter capable of being mountably rested atop the firebox walls of a grill. The slide-detachable smoking chamber has front and rear access doors, a side opening for side-attaching the fire...     

A toaster with multi-function has a heating plate including two recess one of which is sized to receive a coffee cup thereon to warm up while the other recess is sized to receive an egg broiler which has a plurality of holes adapted two receive eggs thereon, a plurality of stands to support the broiler...     

A lower housing defines an elongated heat chamber with side-mounted longitudinally extended linear gas burners which heat the space in the chamber and also edibles mounted on a longitudinal spit which rotates at about the top of the housing. Removable covers enclose the heat chamber, and are removed...     

This invention relates to a steam case and in particular to one including an upper container provided with a lid, an intermediate container engaged with a bottom of the upper container and having a tubular member at the center communicating the interior with the exterior thereof, a lower container engaged...     

A convection oven for bakery goods. The oven is of the type having sidewalls, a floor, a top and an opening in one of its sidewalls for permitting at least one multilayer wheeled cart to be pushed into and removed from the oven. The oven includes a fan located in the top of the oven for circulating heated...     

A cooking device which comprises a housing member having open entrance and exit ends, horizontally directed heating elements within the housing define a path for movement of food products, and a cooking area therebetween, a transport mechanism for moving food carriers through the defined path, a plurality...     

A food service tray assembly including a tray, a hot food dish, and an insulated dome. Hot food is served onto the dish, the dome is preheated, the food carrying dish is set on the tray, the preheated dome set over the dish, and the tray system delivered to the intended consumer. A thermochromic member...     

A toaster housing is arranged to accommodate a plurality of tortilla type shells therewithin, wherein a top wall of the housing includes a row of alternatingly oriented U-shaped openings, with each of the openings aligned with an underlying U-shaped cage. A sineusoidal heating plate extends between ends...     

A cooking utensil includes a container having a peripheral wall at its upper end outwardly circumscribing its open top and defining therewith an annular reservoir for receiving a quantity of water. A lid overlies the container open top and includes a depending skirt dimensioned to become partially immersed...     

A pancake maker in which several batter-filled containers are simultaneously placed within a heating device to make pancakes. All the resulting pancakes are uniformly shaped and cooked and can be quickly produced. This invention is applicable to the individual as well as the restaurant industry and greatly...     

An outdoor cooking unit comprises a hollow, hemispherical base that increases in diameter from top to bottom. Detachably secured to the hemispherical base is a hollow, hemispherical firebox that decreases in diameter from top to bottom. Supported by the firebox is a hollow, hemispherical cover that increases...     

A pasta pan and cooking method is provided which is particularly suitable for preparing an entree which includes two or more components, with the pan assembly allowing the components to be cooked simultaneously. For cooking a pasta and sauce dish, pasta can be disposed in an apertured pan, with sauce...     

A cooking oven and method of cooking vertically arrayed food carrying skewers movably attached and carried in a horizontal endless travel path by conveyor means to encircle a heating element array within a single open cooking oven chamber so as to constantly directly and indirectly expose the food to...     

A multiple unit wok apparatus is provided for simultaneously cooking separate ingredients and, when cooked, the ingredients can be easily mixed together if desired. The individual wok units are attached together.

A stream generator for use in a convection oven comprising a plurality of first and second spherically shaped heat accumulator elements arranged alternately in a substantially vertical plane in which the first layer contains at least one row of the heat accumulating elements integrally joined together...     

A food product processing transport system (300) includes an overhead transport rail (302) having first and second runs (356 and 358, 390 and 392), a food product carrier (310) suspended from the rail and defining a vertical plane, a drive mechanism (326) for advancing the carrier along the rail, and...     

A barbecue grill assembly adapted for simultaneously cooking one food and warming another, the grill comprising a base component having an upper portion and lower portion, a rearward end, a forward end, and two side walls extending between the rearward and forward ends, an opened top, and a closed bottom,...     

A barbecue grill unit having a plurality of elongated food support units extending transversely across the open top portion of the grill body. The food support units are each simultaneously rotatable about their respective longitudinal axes. The grill unit further includes a selectively positionable...     

A spit for a rotisserie oven includes first and second support rods extending within the cooking chamber and a plurality of food carrying devices affixed to the support rods. The food carrying devices include a base having a locking portion depending from one end thereof and a skewer portion depending...     

A power operated system for raising and lowering an oven rack but without opening the oven door is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of conventional rectangular wire oven shelves in a spaced apart relationship. Each shelf is supported on a protuberance that has a threaded portion that rides...     

An apparatus (10) to minimize the amount of cooking oil required for the deep fat frying of single servings of corn dogs (20) over a stove top burner (25). The apparatus includes a cylindrical container (12) for holding cooking oil, a stabilizer ring (14) and supports (16) to hold the container (12)...     

A barbecue device includes an oven container having a top, bottom, opposite sides, opposite ends, and a centrally disposed cooking zone wherein foods are suspended. One or more bins for holding combustible materials are mounted on sides and yet laterally removed from underneath the cooking zone so as...     

A rack invention includes a rack having a rack surface and a plurality of legs attached to the rack surface. Each of the legs is made of wire and has two straight segments extending downwardly from the rack surface and a connecting segment which connects together the straight segments. The connecting...