Basting cover apparatus and method thereof

A basting cover configured to maintain a humid environment for a food product upon the cover being positioned over a flat cooking surface, comprising:

• a wall extending with a central wall portion and a side wall portion, the central wall portion having an external surface, the side wall portion extending outward from the central wall portion to a side wall free end, the side wall portion having thinned portions defined therein to facilitate the side wall portion to be moveable between an expanded use position and a collapsed storage position;
• a rigid band extending along and coupled adjacent to a central wall periphery of the central wall portion, the rigid band extending outward a depth from the central wall to a rigid free end;
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• a flexible handle having a length extending between a handle first fixed end and a handle second fixed end such that the flexible handle extends along the central wall portion and such that the length of the flexible handle is positioned to maintain an upright arcuately extending structure so as to always remain within in a space defined within the depth of the rigid band between the rigid free end of the rigid band and the external surface of the central wall portion.

A method of cooking a food product on a flat cooking surface, comprising:

• providing a basting cover having a central wall portion and a side wall portion, the central wall portion having an external surface, the side wall portion extending outward from the central wall portion to a free end such that the basting cover exhibits a dome configuration, the side wall portion having thinned portions defined therein to facilitate the side wall portion to be moveable between an expanded use position and a collapsed storage position, the basting cover having a rigid extension extending away from and coupled to the central wall portion so that the rigid extension extends from the central wall portion to a rigid extension free end, the basting cover having a flexible handle that is positioned maintain an upright arcuately extending structure so as to remain entirely within a space defined between the rigid extension free end of the rigid extension and the central wall portion;
• cooking the food product on the flat cooking surface of a griddle type cooking station;
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• positioning the basting cover over at least some of the food product so that the free end of the basting cover sits directly against the flat cooking surface.