Convertible multipurpose cooking mat

A convertible multipurpose cooking article for food products, said convertible multipurpose cooking article comprising:

• a mat for receiving food products, the mat comprises first surface, a second surface, a first side and a second side extending between a first end and a second end, and is foraminate, being full of holes or openings therethroughout extending through the mat from the first surface to the second surface, and sufficiently flexible to be repeatedly flexed between an open configuration in which the mat is flat, and a closed configuration juxtaposing the first side and the second side in which the mat defines a continuous sidewall encircling a volume and the first side and the second side encircle opposed upper and lower openings to the volume, and a fastener assembly configured to be repeatedly secured, for securing the first end to the second end when the mat is in the closed configuration, and separated, the fastener assembly comprising a structure thereof proximate to the first end and a complemental structure thereof proximate to the second end;
• the mat being in the closed configuration, the structure and the complemental structure being secured, and the holes or openings enabling gases and liquids to pass therethrough;
• a first lid releasably applied over the first side closing the first opening to the volume;
• and
• a second lid releasably applied over the second side closing the second opening to the volume.

A convertible multipurpose cooking article for food products, said convertible multipurpose cooking article comprising:

• a mat for receiving food products, the mat including comprises a first surface, a second surface, a first side and a second side extending between a first end and a second end, an enlargement extending outwardly from the second surface proximate to the first end and formed with a female profile that opens outwardly to the first surface, a male profile proximate to the second end extending outwardly from the second surface, and is foraminate, being full of holes or openings therethroughout extending through the mat from the first surface to the second surface, and sufficiently flexible to be repeatedly flexed between an open configuration in which the mat is flat, and a closed configuration in which the mat defines a continuous sidewall encircling a volume by the first surface, the first side and the second side encircle opposed upper and lower openings to the volume and the second surface proximate to the first end and the male profile overlaps the first surface proximate to the second end and the female profile, the female profile is configured to repeatedly receive and releasably secure the male profile for repeatedly releasably securing the first end to the second side when the mat is in the closed configuration, and the holes or openings enabling gases and fluids to pass therethrough;
• the mat being in the closed configuration, the male profile received and releasably secured by the female profile, and the holes or openings enabling gases and liquids to pass therethrough;
• a first lid releasably applied over the first side closing the first opening to the volume;
• and
• a second lid releasably applied over the second side closing the second opening to the volume.