Spherical food product container for heating or cooking various food products by steam in order to cook multiple sized portions of food products within shortened cooking times, and a food cooking appliance incorporating the spherical food product container therein

A food cooking appliance for cooking or heating a food product disposed within a food product container, comprising:

• a housing;
• a food product container, mounted upon said housing, having an interior portion for containing a food product to be cooked or heated by steam;
• a steam flux director removably mounted upon said food cooking appliance;
• a steam generator, disposed within said housing, for generating steam and fluidically connected to said food product container by said steam flux director such that steam, generated by said steam generator, is discharged into said food product container so as to cook or heat the food product disposed within said food product container;
• wherein said food product container comprises a bulbous or spherical configuration defining an internal spherical volume encompassing 360° in substantially all directions relative to substantially all diametrical axes of said spherical container as defined around a substantially circular locus along any diametrical cross-sectional plane, including end portions along substantially all of said diametrical axes;
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• a substantially narrow neck portion which extends radially outwardly from said bulbous or spherical food product container along a diametrical extent of said bulbous or spherical food product container and through which said steam flux director extends into said food product container along said diametrical extent, such that when steam is directed into said food product container from said steam generator and said steam flux director, steam will flow completely throughout said spherical internal volume of said food product container encompassing said 360° in all directions relative to substantially all of said diametrical axes of said spherical container in a turbulent swirling manner so as to entrain the food product along with the turbulent swirling flow of steam throughout said spherical internal volume of said bulbous or spherical food product container such that food products are cooked faster and within shorter periods of time.