Cooking apparatuses

A cooking apparatus comprising:

• a housing defining an internal chamber, wherein the internal chamber comprises a cooking portion;
• a single cooking container configured and adapted to be removably received in the cooking portion of the internal chamber, wherein the single cooking container comprises a front wall, a back wall, and a bottom surface, wherein the single cooking container defines a cooking volume between the front wall, the back wall, the bottom surface and an upper wall of the internal chamber;
• at least two heating elements positioned within the internal chamber;
• a dividing structure on the upper wall extending downward into the cooking portion of the internal chamber below the at least two heating elements, the dividing structure separating the at least two heating elements;
• and
• a divider configured and adapted to be removably received in the single cooking container to divide the cooking volume into two separate cooking sections, wherein at least one of a side edge or a bottom edge of the divider are made from a heat-resistant elastic compressible material, wherein at least one of the front wall or the back wall comprises an engagement structure,
• wherein the engagement structure is configured to hold the divider in place when it is in the single cooking container, the engagement structure comprises at least one of front wall protrusions or back wall protrusions that extend along at least one of the front wall or the back wall respectively and have distal ends that terminate at a distance from both the bottom surface and the upper wall of the internal chamber, the front wall protrusions and the back wall protrusions are configured and adapted to engage and support both sides of the divider, and
• wherein when the divider is positioned within the single cooking container and when the single cooking container is positioned within the housing, the divider is configured and adapted to mate with the dividing structure, the engagement structure, and the heat-resistant elastic compressible material of the at least one of the side edge or the bottom edge of the divider is compressed to form a thermal and odor seal between the two separate cooking sections.

A cooking apparatus comprising:

• a housing defining an internal chamber, wherein the internal chamber comprises a cooking portion;
• a single cooking container configured and adapted to be removably received in the cooking portion of the internal chamber, wherein the single cooking container comprises a front wall, a back wall, and a bottom surface, wherein the single cooking container defines a cooking volume between the front wall, the back wall, the bottom surface and an upper wall of the internal chamber;
• at least two heating elements positioned within the internal chamber;
• and
• a divider configured and adapted to be removably received in the single cooking container to divide the cooking volume into two separate cooking sections, wherein at least one of a side edge or a bottom edge of the divider are made from a heat-resistant elastic compressible material, wherein at least one of the front wall or the back wall comprises an engagement structure,
• wherein the engagement structure is configured to hold the divider in place when it is in the single cooking container, the engagement structure comprises front wall protrusions and back wall protrusions that extend along the front wall and the back wall respectively and have distal ends that terminate at a distance from both the bottom surface and the upper wall of the internal chamber, the front wall protrusions are configured and adapted to engage and support both sides of the divider, and the back wall protrusions are configured and adapted to engage and support the both sides of the divider, and
• wherein when the divider is positioned within the single cooking container and when the single cooking container is positioned within the housing, the divider is configured and adapted to mate with the upper wall and the heat-resistant elastic compressible material of the at least one of the side edge or the bottom edges of the divider is compressed to form a thermal and odor seal between the two separate cooking sections.