Spit or impaling type

Different heads containing various arrangements of elongated prongs upon which food may be impaled are detachably securable to the end of a handle constructed of a plurality of elongated tubular telescopic sections. The prongs are parallel to the axis of the handle when the head is attached to the handle,...     

A food serving device for use at a dining table comprises a body of heat conducting material carrying a plurality of skewers to hold small pieces of meat or other food pieces. The body is heated and serves as a heat source to maintain the food warm during serving. A support is provided for suspending...     

A bun or roll toaster wherein the bun is spiked over and around the polytetrafluoroethylene-coated, stainless steel spike with an interior copper sleeve enclosing an easily controlled heating element whereby on removal from the spike the bun is toasted internally, with an opening appropriately sized...     

An apparatus for cooking or storing foods. The food is prepared on a skewer in its own individual cooking chamber to reduce the amount of energy used in cooking. Each cooking chamber is provided with a receptacle for collecting grease drippings and the like to facilitate cleaning for reuse. The prepared...     

Food products, for example, hamburger patties, are rapidly cooked with reduced weight losses. A cooking appliance is provided having a plurality of parallely spaced heat transfer fins from which project an array of cooking grills on which the hamburger patty is impaled. The appliance is adapted to be...     

An improved culinary utensil adapted to connect to the rod portion of an ordinary barbecue skewer and thereby to accomplish not only the secure retention of the food desired to be cooked, but also the continuous positive flow of meat juices over said food surfaces.

A display device mountable in a refrigerated meat display case to display ka-bob skewers having chunks of meat and food items mounted thereon. A holder having a rectangular form has a plurality of spaced apertures therein opening to the holder's top. The apertures are angularly inclined toward one end...     

An individualized barbeque has a mounting plate with a groove around its periphery onto which a rotisserie-burner apparatus is removably mounted. The rotisserie-burner apparatus comprises a first and a second support between which a burner apparatus is attached. A skewer is supported between a notched...     

Several forms of skewered food cooking devices are disclosed, each of which provides means for replaceably supporting a plurality of loaded skewers generally cantilever fashion in cooking relation to a heat source, and means for effecting rotation of each of the skewers about its axis while supported...     

An enclosed cooking apparatus for barbequeing meat in which a fire box is provided for the burning of charcoal and logs. A pan is supported over the burning area and is filled with water which is heated into steam. The steam entrains the smoke generated during the cooking process and provides for rapid...     

The invention is concerned with an apparatus and process for cooking slabs of meat on a grill in reduced time. Briefly the apparatus comprises a generally flat linearly extending weighted generally rectangular member having a grill facing side which has a plurality of generally equal length heat conductive...     

A skewer for shish-ke-bob and the like comprises a cylindrically shaped handle having circumferential grooves and a concave recess near one end to provide a grip for a human hand. A shaft extends from one end of the handle. The shaft has a free pointed end and a small flange extending from the pointed...     

A portable grill device of the type including a first bowl and a second bowl hingedly connected together. The bowls are movable between a closure position where the bowls overlie one another, a generally right angular use position where the second bowl is disposed substantially normal to the first bowl,...     

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...     

A portable grill device of the type including a first bowl and a second bowl hingedly connected together. The bowls are movable between a closure position where the bowls overlie one another, a generally right angular use position where the second bowl is disposed substantially normal to the first bowl,...     

An upwardly open chest has a hinged lid, and oppositely movable roller blinds to close an upper compartment in which food can be cooked, or stored at normal refrigerator temperatures. A steam rod support structure slides parallel the lid's hinge line for selectively cooking food in this compartment,...     

This invention provides a novel skewer, for cooking shish kabobs or the like, made from plastic, and comprising two interfitted, but otherwise unconnected members, the interfitting connection joining the handle and the body of the skewer. The body of the skewer and the handle are therefore capable of...     

A heater comprising a heater proper, heating members erected at spaced locations on the heater proper and heat emitters enclosed one each in the heating members, whereby given raw foodstuffs are internally heated by having the heating members kept pierced in the foodstuffs.

A compact broiler for cooking slabs of meat includes generally vertical infrared and preferably gas fired heating elements spaced apart within a housing to define a cooking zone between them. A mouth through the upper surface of the housing provides access to the cooking zone. A special rack suspends...     

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 hand-held spit for barbecuing or roasting weiners, sausages, chicken pieces and the like over an open fire includes an elongated metal, strap-like frame which supports a handle at one end thereof and which is formed at its opposite end with an annular loop on which is carried a plurality of quickly...     

A stand for fowl roasting and being arranged with two planar plates of flat material with slots therein for assembling the plates at right angles to each other. The plates have the same general profile, and they are retained in their right angle position by means of angulations or offsets at the ends...     

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...     

This invention relates to a food support to be used during cooking meat, and, more specifically, to a novel and useful support apparatus for cooking meat, poultry and the like.

A baking device especially for baking potatoes in a microwave oven comprises a molded microwave transparent plastic ring having integral generally wedge-shaped but thin upstanding blades spaced about its circumference. A flange on the ring provides a handle for lifting the device. The broad opposing...     

A skewering device comprising a frame structure defining a magazine adapted to receive a cartridge, a cartridge adapted to receive food to be skewered and thereafter loaded into the magazine, and a skewering assembly carried by the frame structure operative when actuated to pass a plurality of skewers...     

A compact, knock-down barbeque grill. The grill includes a base or drip pan and a heating basket is mounted on the drip pan. The heating basket includes a bottom having a central cup to collect charcoal starting fluid, a top, and a plurality of sheet metal legs which are located at the corners of the...     

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...     

The present invention relates to a collapsible camp stove and in particular to one comprising a folding casing having two side panels each provided at the inner surface with an upper rail and a lower rail and formed at the top with notches for supporting roasting rods, four leg members engageable with...     

A cooking utensil for the preparation of food items such as frankfurters or marshmallows over a heat source. The cooking utensil comprises an elongated body, a first base attached to one end of the body capable of supporting the body in a vertical position and supporting food items on the surface of...     

A hamburger cooking device including a grill member of a heat-conductive material for impaling and holding a hamburger patty. The grill member is supported on an arm which, in turn is pivotally supported with respect to the base of the device. A fork member is provided that is interfittable with the...     

The invention concerns a process for cooking and preferably roasting or grilling food, in particular food with an accessible cavity such as fowl or the like, wherein the food is heated simultaneously externally and internally and when preferably at least one heater element is inserted into the food....     

A barbecue apparatus having a vertical central post removably attached to a laterally extending base and having a plurality of vertically and radially offset transverse openings into which the ends of skewers laden with food may be inserted to position the skewers at the desired height. An auxiliary...     

A utensil assembly and kit including same, for cooking vessels used for preparing and supporting comestibles above the bottom of the cooking vessel and away from its inner walls. The utensil kit comprises a base supported above the bottom of the cooking vessel; a plurality of support attachments separately...     

The specification discloses a steak-cooking spike apparatus (10) for being inserted into an edge (36) of a steak (34). The spike apparatus (10) includes a heat-absorbing rod (12) for being positioned adjacent to the steak (34) immediately above the adjacent to a grill (48) to absorb heat from the grill...     

A poultry roasting assembly and a method of making same for suspending a bird horizontally over a pan of water by a spit rod inserted under the back bone. The assembly includes a first U-shaped member (14) having a pair of parallel arms (16) extending out from a base section (18). The parallel arms (16)...     

A mobile barbeque cart is disclosed that features means to rotate the burner tubes and maintain the flame in a vertical plane when used on sloping terrain. The novel design also permits the use of any given number of spits which may readily by self-engagingly mounted for rotation. This latter feature...     

An infrared cooking oven is provided with a rotatable spit which is hollow and is connected to a boiler producing steam which is fed into the spit and through orifices of the latter into meat mounted on the spit. The internal steam cooking coupled with the combined infrared and steam cooking of the exterior,...     

A Modular Rotisserie Rod Assembly is disclosed having a pair of rod members with threaded end portions that can be joined with a collar and also separated for facilitating storage, transport, and/or cleaning. The rod members and the connectors are multi-faceted for engaging and turning food or accessory...     

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 toy rotatable grill kabob is disclosed for simultanously rotatably driving a skewer onto which simulated food chunks are mounted, and a pair of spaced support rods for supporting a simulated wiener or the like. The skewer and support rods are driven by a common drive.

A roll and load rotisserie assembly capable of being mountably rested atop the firebox walls of a grill. The rotisserie assembly has a breadbox-type twin hood design that is pivotable to open at either side of the assembly. Support panels for the hood have loading slots adjacent roller assemblies for...     

A self-contained refrigerator-oven for refrigerating and cooking food in the same enclosed chamber, has both heating elements and cooling elements located in the same appliance. The heating elements may be conventional heating elements and/or a convection unit and a microwave unit. Additonally, the apparatus...     

A shish-kabob baking device that comprises a base unit having at least one vertical hole to receive the lower end of a skewer containing chunks of various food products. The base unit includes a trough or depression and a drain means connects the lower end of each hole to the trough. During baking, any...     

A portable cooking apparatus has a pair of longitudinally elongated stanchions, a spit rod support and a motor support bracket for supporting a drive motor with its power output shaft aligned with the spit rod. A mounting bracket connects the first spit rod support member and the motor support bracket...     

A portable, foldable roaster oven comprising two side plates, a front plate, a rear plate, a bottom plate, a fire net, a roasting net and a food preserving net, movably combined together so that said front and rear plates and said side plates are possible to be folded down to lie on the bottom plate...     

A rotisserie assembly for barbecue grills is disclosed in which the motor support bracket can be arranged to support the motor in a plurality of vertically adjusted positions and the rod support bracket includes a plurality of slots for receiving the rotisserie rod. The motor bracket includes an adapter...     

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 portable grill is disclosed. The grill includes a rectangular volume which encloses a heat source with an ash tray for the burned fuel in the base thereof. A grid covers the open cooking surface of the rectangular volume. The housing forming the unit further includes stair-stepped hinged side panels...     

A manually-manipulatable device for supporting and rotating a number of hot dogs above the surface of a grille during a cooking operation. The device is equipped with balancer elements that maintain the device in a stabilized condition on the grilled surface in spite of cantilever forces imposed by the...     

A shish kabob rotisserie for placement over the firebox of an outdoor grill provides a motor-driven center drive chain assembly for rotationally driving a plurality of transversely arranged skewers having double skewer members releasably attached. The double skewer members resiliently and tightly holding...     

A fan-shaped barbecue kettle comprises a kettle shell in fan-shape, an air hole on each of the fan-shaped end walls in the vicinity of a charcoal grill which is inside the kettle shell, a cover, and a roasting grill which can fold up, stand upright or change into a roasting cage. The upper rim of each...     

An improved structure of a rotisserie, the improvement comprising, a rearrangement of the infra-red heaters to a position not in direct view of the operator, so as to not expose him to its infra-red rays, and the provision of a plurality of circular food holders adjustably positionable on a vertically...     

A portable cooking grill has a bottom wall and side and end walls which are hinged to the bottom wall to form an open box or enclosure which can be collapsed by moving the walls proximate to the bottom wall. One pair of walls is provided with mating, multi-stepped slots which can support a grill tray...     

A roasting support for a disemboweled fowl that has openings at the head and tail ends, includes a base member that carries a generally conical, imperforate plug member adapted to sealingly engage one of the open ends of the fowl to retain fluids within the fowl during roasting. The roasting support...     

A heat transfer ring that is readily usable in any application requiring heat transfer from a heat source to a medium coming in contact with the ring. The ring may also be used in a reverse application where it is used to cool the medium coming into contact with it. The ring is a cast body consisting...     

An improved rotisserie grill is provided and consists of an elongated rectangular framework having four vertical legs, one in each corner and two side cross members, each extending horizontally between two legs. A rotatable spit is supported longitudinally above the framework. An electric motor is supported...     

A rotisserie for use in cooking meat on a spit. The spit is releasably coupled to a spit retainer which is rotatably mounted on a central post. A drive mechanism is mounted on the spit retainer and imparts rotational motion thereto. The central post is pivotally mounted whereby the spit can be rotated...     

A simple, inexpensive, easy to use, portable grill that is fuel-efficient, eliminates flaming totally and retains the natural flavor of food being grilled is provided. The portable grill is formed by the combination of a food supporting grid placed inside a grease collection pan that receives heat from...     

A portable rotisserie is disclosed which can be readily assembled and disassembled. The rotisserie includes front and back walls and two side walls each of which includes at its extremities complementary connecting means so that the walls can be assembled in the form of a rectangular frame. The front...     

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...     

Apparatus for cooking food products comprising a container capable of holding a liquid and having a pivotable cover attached thereto, a bottom plate mounted in the container and having a plurality of tines extending upwardly therefrom, a food product holding plate resiliently mounted over the bottom...     

A skewer device for barbecue cooking foods such as shish-kabob. The skewer device has a rod to which the food is attached and a pair of support members slidably retained on the rod at opposite ends of the food arrangement. The support members are ring-like in the preferred embodiment and elevate the...     

A campfire skewer consisting of an elongate member having a first end, a second end, a first portion adjacent the first end, and a second portion adjacent the second end. The first portion has a first axis and the second portion is offset from the first axis. The first and has means for impaling food....     

A campfire skewer consisting of an elongate member having a first end, a second end, a first portion adjacent the first end, and a second portion adjacent the second end. The first portion has a first axis and the second portion is offset from the first axis. The first and has means for impaling food....     

A potato baking device comprising a self-supporting base and lid, wherein the base and lid define a cooking chamber for baking potatoes. A heating plate is provided inside the cooking chamber for conducting heat throughout the cooking chamber. A plurality of detachable heat conductive skewers are provided...     

Cooking apparatus that uses a housing with a fireplace to support a fire for cooking food. A spit for supporting food is rotatably connected to the housing and receives heat generated from the fire in the fireplace. The spit may include at least three driven shoulders disposed substantially equidistant...     

A rotisserie mechanism utilizing a base member having a first portion and second portions which are angularly disposed relative to one another. The first and second portions may take the form of a pair of racks and are held to a rotisserie rod. A holding element is locked to the base member and includes...     

The skewer for a rotisserie for roasting chicken and the like is formed from a single piece with a straight spine portion having angularly extended drive wings fitting into the cavity of the chicken for positive rotation thereof. The skewer rotates with the reel plate of the rotisserie and relative to...     

Cooking apparatus that uses a housing with a fireplace to support a fire for cooking food. A spit for supporting food is rotatably connected to the housing and receives heat generated from the fire in the fireplace. The spit may include at least three driven shoulders disposed substantially equidistant...     

An easy to clean and sanitize skewer driver for driving the horizontally supported skewer in the rotisserie oven for roasting chickens and other food products is formed from an outer and an inner sleeve where the inner sleeve is affixed to a planet gear and is journalled in the outer sleeve for rotary...     

A rotisserie oven including separate convection and radiant heating elements is provided with individually controllable fans to allow precise control of food quality during different operational modes of the oven. In particular, a cooling fan is provided which may be operated separately of convection...     

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 hand held utensil adapted to hold a vegetable such as a potato for peeling, the device having a flange retaining the hand in a safe position and having an extension therebeyond securely holding the vegetable in position for peeling.

A mobile workstation for preparation of skewered meat products comprising a mobile food preparation cart, a skewer bracket and a rack member. The cart has a work surface or horizontal supports supported by a plurality of leg supports on wheels and rails for supporting a removable seasoning lug positioned...     

The invention is an oven system for roasting, cooking, baking and regenerating, as well as for grilling foodstuffs by supplying heat into a cooking space of the oven. The oven system includes at least one slide-in frame movable into and out of the cooking space, respectively, the slide-in frame having...     

A corn skewer comprises a grip, a blocking ring disposed at the proximal end of the grip, and a hollow insert extending forward from the blocking ring. The hollow insert has a tapered end. A plurality of positioning ribs abut the hollow insert to reinforce the hollow insert. The corn skewers is made...     

A grilling appliance, includes a vertical impaling member of thermally-conductive material mounted vertically within a grilling compartment for impaling a food article to be grilled; a rotary drive for rotating the vertical impaling member about a vertical axis; a heater located within the vertical impaling...     

A cooking device comprising: an insulated housing defining a cooking cavity therein having a front opening; a radiant heat source disposed within the cooking cavity and positioned adjacent a rear wall of the housing; a rotating vertical support having a first end, centered in the housing; a plurality...     

A device for roasting a food item including a shaft, a hook member formed at one end of the shaft, and a plurality of spirals formed adjacent to the hook member on the shaft. The spirals have an inner diameter greater than a diameter of the food item. The hook member extends inwardly toward the plurality...     

A revolving grilling apparatus grills foods, such as skewered meats and vegetables or corn, which are held parallel on a plurality of cartridges while revolving over a range. Each of the holding cartridges is placed upon one of the stations of the main body of this apparatus. The revolving members of...     

A food skewering tool is used to insert a skewer into a food item, such as an apple. The tool includes a barrel having an axial bore for receiving and guiding the skewer, and a striker element which applies force to the skewer to drive it into the food item. The striker element may include a detent that...     

A device for cooking meatballs, which may be made for use in a microwave oven, conventional oven or stove-top. The invention comprises a horizontal drip pan having a plurality of relatively short vertical pegs projecting upward from the bottom, spaced throughout the pan sufficiently apart to allow each...     

A device for automatically rotating rotisserie skewers includes a holder with a front panel and a rear panel provided with notches on the upper edges thereof for receiving skewers. Each skewer has a handle with a concentric cog wheel. A worm screw driven by a motor rotates the skewers via the respective...     

The present invention relates to a cooking apparatus comprising a combination of a vessel having an upstanding wall defining an upper edge providing a supporting surface for a removable cover having a centrally located opening. The cover is adapted to fit over the upper edge of the vessel. The apparatus...     

A multi-purpose cooking appliance comprising: a self-supporting base, a lid mountable on the base, a cooking chamber defined between the base and the lid, a heat conductive pan within the cooking chamber, a heat source connected to the heat conductive pan, removable, elongated skewers for supporting...     

A portable grill is provided in which a heat source is located laterally of food to be cooked. The grill is particularly well suited for rotisserie cooking. The portable grill of the present invention can be disassembled into a compact portable carrying structure.

A new outdoor adjustable grill for grilling over an open wood fire with numerous options. The inventive device includes a circular grill portion having four circular sleeves secured to an outer periphery thereof. The four circular sleeves are disposed at ninety degree intervals. The circular sleeves...     

A base includes a bottom panel and four generally upwardly extended side walls. A first support and a second support are each configured to extend upwardly from the base. A spit is configured to extend between and to be supported by the first and the second supports, above and along the base. A rotation...     

A new Water Rotissarator for providing a steam powered rotisserie which can be utilized within an oven without an external power source. The inventive device includes a pan member having a reservoir, a steam powered motor coupled to the reservoir, a rod coupled to the motor rotatably projecting to the...     

A utensil for baking potatoes including at least one member having a bottom wall and a plurality of upwardly extending side walls, the bottom and side walls defining a partially enclosed cooking space between them, and at least one spike member having a first end and a second end, the first end being...     

A support assembly for holding a chicken or the like for cooking, comprising a support member 11 arranged to extend into the body cavity of the chicken through the posterior end of the chicken cut away during butchering and lie against the backbone region 35. A trussing member 15 extends from the support...     

A chopping board system including a chopping board member having a first surface defined by a first perimeter edge and formed from a non-skid material and a second surface defined by a second perimeter edge and formed from a chopping board material, the chopping board member having a plurality of securing...     

A food preparing utensil which has a flexible body supporting several food puncturing spikes. The body is formed by a trunk between spaced apart, axially aligned and integral handles. The trunk is formed by a plate with a depression bounded by peripheral sidewalls. Handles extending outwardly from each...     

A rotisserie cooking appliance includes a base and attached wall in the form of a vertically bisected cylinder. The base contains a centrally-located spindle for the attachment thereon of a drip pan and a spit and basket assembly. The spit and basket assembly includes a circular wire basket for containing...     

A device for holding a plurality of skewered kabobs on a barbecue grill is disclosed. The device comprises a bottom section having side members for retaining the ends of transverse skewers and a cover section which holds the skewers in place during the cooking process. Both bottom and cover sections...     

A device for improving the process of cooking fowl in a heated chamber, resulting in a cooked food that is nutritious, tasty, and low in fat content. The device includes an insert or mount that fits within the interior cavity of the fowl to be cooked. The device may also include a base plate connected...     

A grilling appliance includes a housing defining an internal grilling compartment for receiving a food article to be grilled; an impaling member mounted within the grilling compartment for impaling a food article to be grilled; a circular array of electrical heaters surrounding the impaling member for...     

The present invention relates to the flavoring of various foods and comprises a rod, materials disposed along an outer surface portion of the rod for flavoring the food item, and a binder for releasably retaining the flavoring materials in position on the outer surface portion of the rod during preparation...     

A roasting jack in the present invention includes a first turning tray, a second turning tray and several spears. The first turning tray is provided with a plurality of notches in the circumference. Each notch has a catching section properly provided for the pressing hook with a fixing portion and an...