Teakettle with attached boiling vessel
OwnerNorbert A. Kirkinventor
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Abstract
A whistling teakettle with an attached food boiling device is disclosed which is especially suitable for soft-boiling eggs and the like. Both the teakettle and the boiling device are designed to be exposed to a burner surface. However, due to the decreased volume of water in the boiling device, this water boils sooner than the water in the teakettle. Thus, a food, such as eggs, placed in the boiling device is cooked during the same time that water in the teakettle reaches a boil and causes the teakettle to "whistle". By measuring the volume of water in the teakettle, the "whistle" of the teakettle is used as a timed alarm for the cooking of the eggs.
Claims2
A water boiling and food cooking apparatus adapted to be heated by a burner comprising, in combination:
- a teakettle having a surface adapted to be heated by the burner, said teakettle including means for producing a whistle which is actuated by rapidly boiling water;
- a separate boiling device comprising a pair of boiling vessels each of which has a much smaller volume than said teakettle, said device being attached to the exterior surface of said teakettle and having a lower portion which is adapted to be heated by the same burner heating said teakettle said lower portion comprising a tube extending between the bottoms of said boiling vessels which provides fluid communication between said boiling vessels, said tube being positioned to be exposed to a burner on which the teakettle is placed,
- such that during the time that it takes water in said teakettle to boil and produce a whistle, food deposited in said device is cooked by boiling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.