US 2019/0374066 A1 · DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING AND PREPARING FOODS

Abstract

Food holding, mounting, and/or positioning devices, with particular application to, although not necessarily limited to, supporting unitary articles of food, including, but not necessarily limited to, deep frying large fowl, including Thanksgiving Day sized turkeys. A simplified cooking liquid filtering apparatus. A method and apparatus to simplifies, and makes more accurate, cooking liquid dispensing, and measurement. Example devices use liquid to cook foods, with particular application to, but not limited to, deep frying large unitary food articles, including, but not limited to, large fowl, including Thanksgiving Day sized turkeys. Further example devices store, dispense, and measure pourable materials, including both liquid and dry materials. An informational device, with particular applications to, but not limited to, provides instructions, and more particularly, although not limited to, providing operating instructions for household cooking devices.

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Dependent claims

A device for cleaning cooking fluid, comprising:

a cooking vessel with a floor which has an outer periphery, and the floor having substantially vertical side walls extending upward from the outer periphery, and
the cooking vessel configured to simultaneously hold, during cooking, food being cooked and cooking fluid to cook the food,
a heating source for heating, to cooking temperatures, the cooking fluid and the food being cooked in the cooking fluid,
a vertically removable filtering shield, which is both substantially planner and substantially horizontal, and disposed proximate to the sidewalls, and
the shield being disposed below the food being cooked while cooking is taking place,
the shield, being configured to filter cooking fluid passing through the shield, and
the shield being configured to direct cooking fluid which had been above the shield during cooking, through the shield and thus filter the cooking fluid, when the shield is removed from the cooking fluid,
whereby, after cooking, the food and the shield are removed from the cooking vessel, causing the cooking fluid, which had been above the shield during cooking, to flow through the shield and filter such cooking fluid.

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Devices and methods for supporting and preparing foods

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Devices and methods for supporting and preparing foods

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