Tortilla basket fryer

A nesting pair of deep frying baskets comprising handle means extending from sides of each of said pair of baskets, the nesting baskets defining between them a dish-shaped space for receiving a food product, the handle of an outside and normally lower one of the nested baskets having a configuration for providing a shaping control for the finished food product, the inner and normally upper one of the nested baskets having a handle configuration which holds at least the handle side of the inner basket in a stable, elevated and inverted position to facilitate loading and unloading, the handles cooperating to hold the baskets in a spaced parallel relationship when the two baskets are in a closed position, so that a food product may be captured and held in the resulting dish-shaped space between them.

A device for deep frying tortillas, said device having a pair of welded wire spring baskets which nest together to define a dish-shaped space between them, a pair of substantially spaced parallel wires welded to each of the wire spring baskets, each of said parallel wires being covered by a heat insulating material, one pair of said wires being welded to the inside bottom of an inner one of said baskets and the other pair of said wires beng welded to the outside bottom of an outer one of said baskets, the two pairs of said wires being hinged together on one side of the baskets and formed into handles on the other side of the baskets, one pair of the wires being shaped to form a stand which facilitates a loading and unloading of a food product in the defined space.