Culinary utensil
OwnerEugene Kozikowskiinventor
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Abstract
An improved culinary utensil adapted to connect to the rod portion of an ordinary barbecue skewer and thereby to accomplish not only the secure retention of the food desired to be cooked, but also the continuous positive flow of meat juices over said food surfaces.
Claims5
An improved culinary utensil to be used for the advantageous cooking of food such as poultry, fish, game, and other meats carried on a rotatable skewer, said utensil comprising a rotatably mounted skewer;
- two spiral spring-like food holding elements, each element comprising:
- a spiral member fabricated from a flexible material which permits radial stretching and axial compression of said spiral member, said spiral member having a skewer receiving end locating the beginning of said spiral member, and a food receiving end opposite said skewer receiving end locating the termination of said spiral member;
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- a collar integrally connected to said skewer receiving end of said spiral member, said collar having means for releasably engaging a skewer, said collars being carried on said skewer at longitudinally spaced locations such that their associated holding spiral members are axially compressed and radially expanded for securingly engaging said food.
An improved culinary utensil to be used for the advantageous cooking of food such as poultry, fish, game, and other meats, said utensil comprising two spiral spring-like food holding elements, each element comprising:
- a spiral member having a skewer receiving end locating the beginning of said spiral member and a food receiving end opposite said skewer receiving end locating the termination of said spiral member;
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- a collar integrally connected to said skewer receiving end of said spiral member, said collar having means for releasably engaging a skewer;
- said spiral member of one holding element being wound in a clockwise rotation from said skewer receiving end and said spiral member of a second holding element being wound in a counterclockwise rotation from its said skewer receiving end, such antipodal convolutions resulting in the cooking juices, which would normally run out the holes punched in the food by the skewer at said skewer receiving ends of said holding elements, continually receding from the holes at said skewer receiving ends of said holding elements back toward the center of the cooking meat via said spiral members of said holding elements effecting a self-basting operation on the rotating food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.