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US 12,150,583 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for cooking a skewered food item
AssigneeMetal Fusion, Inc.
InventorsBarbara Bourgeois, Michael Bourgeois, Norman Bourgeois, Jr., Nicholas Ryan Bourgeois
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Abstract
A turkey cooking apparatus provides a pot and a specially configured insert (e.g., basket) that rests upon the pot bottom. A lower funnel shaped section and upper tube shaped section are provided inside the pot. The insert (e.g., basket) sits upon funnel shaped portion. The insert has a central opening that is receptive of the tubed portion. Both the insert and the tube section can have openings that enable steam to travel upwardly to cook the turkey carcass.
Claims19
A turkey cooking apparatus, comprising:
- a) a pot having a top and a bottom, a bottom panel with an opening of a first bottom area, a pot side wall having a sidewall height, an interior, and an open top;
- b) the pot including a lower conical section attached to the bottom panel, the lower conical section having a conical bore, the pot further including an upper tube shaped section connected to and extending above the lower conical section;
- c) wherein the lower conical section connects with the pot bottom panel at the opening of first bottom area;
- d) wherein the upper tube shaped section has a tube bore that is connected to the conical bore, an upper tube discharge opening having a tube discharge area that is smaller than the opening of first bottom area;
- e) the pot further including a removable support with an opening that is receptive of the upper tube shaped section;
- f) wherein the upper tube shaped section having a tube wall with a plurality of spaced tube openings through the tube wall;
- g) a burner that supports the pot for transferring heat thereto at the pot bottom;
- h) wherein the pot having a cooking fluid holding section located in between the lower conical section and the pot side wall, and above the pot bottom and below the plurality of spaced tube openings;
- i) a lid having an opening that is receptive of the upper tube shaped section, wherein the upper discharge opening of the upper tube shaped section is located above the lid and outside of the interior of the pot when the lid is supported by the pot;
- j) wherein when the pot bottom is heated with the burner such that heated air flows from the opening of first diameter into the conical bore, then to the tube bore and discharges through both
- (1) the plurality of spaced tube openings and
- (2) the upper tube discharge opening.
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The apparatus of 4, wherein after adjustment at least 50 percent of the plurality of spaced tube openings are blocked by the sleeve.
A method of cooking a poultry food item, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a cooker, the cooker having:
- (i) a pot having a bottom panel, a side wall having a sidewall height, an interior, an open top, and a bottom;
- (ii) the pot including a lower conical section attached to the bottom panel, the lower conical section having a conical top and a conical interior located between the bottom panel and the conical top, the pot including an upper tube shaped section attached to the conical top, the upper tube shaped section having a tube top, a tube bottom, a tube wall extending between the tube top and the tube bottom, a tube discharge opening located at the tube top, a tube interior located inside the tube wall, and a plurality of vertically spaced apart openings in the tube wall;
- (iii) a lid having a lid opening that is receptive of the upper tube shaped section, wherein the tube discharge opening of the upper tube shaped section being located above the lid and outside of the interior of the pot when the lid is supported by the pot;
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- (iv) a burner that supports the pot for transferring heat thereto at the bottom of the pot, the pot having a cooking fluid section that is above the bottom of the pot;
- (b) inserting the poultry food item into the interior of the pot and wherein the tube discharge opening being located outside of the interior of the pot, and wherein the upper tube shaped section skewers the poultry food item;
- (c) adding a cooking fluid into the pot interior;
- (d) heating the pot bottom panel such that convective air currents are forced through the lower opening into the conical interior, then to the tube interior, and exiting both:
- (1) at least one of the vertically spaced apart openings in the tube wall into the interior of the pot, and
- (2) the tube discharge opening;
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- (e) heating the pot such that at least part of the cooking fluid is changed into vapor and exits the interior of the pot through the tube discharge opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.