Shell form and method of use

A method of using a shell assembly to cook a taco shell comprising the steps of:

• providing an inner form and an outer clip for capturing a tortilla therebetween;
• the inner form made by bending a planar grill along two lines to form a “U” shaped structure, the grill made from a single piece of grill wire bent to form two substantially closed loops with a series of open loops therebetween, the grill loops having ends that lie along the perimeter of a circle and the open loops having substantially parallel sides;
• and,
• the outer clip made by bending a clip loop along two bend lines to form a “U” shaped structure, the clip loop made from a single piece of clip wire bent to form a substantially closed clip loop, the clip loop having opposed curved sides and opposed straight sides, one of the clip loop flat sides formed at the overlap of opposed ends of the wire;
• wherein a tortilla is prepared when the taco shell is wrapped around the inner form, the outer clip mouth is placed over the inner form, the outer clip is pushed over the tortilla, the shell assembly is placed into hot oil, the shell assembly is removed from hot oil, and the shell is removed from the shell assembly.