Cooking device with heat funnel

A cooking device comprising

• a pan having a continuous, upstanding side wall and a bottom wall, with the side wall forming an enclosure about an interior of the pan;
• a top pending for the pan, said top opening being defined by the upper edge of said side wall;
• a central opening in the bottom wall of the pan;
• a tubular heat funnel having a continuous upstanding side wall, a top wall closing the top end of said heat funnel and an open bottom end attached to said bottom wall of said pan so that the opening in said bottom wall coincides with the open bottom of said heat funnel, said side wall of said heat funnel extending upwardly into the interior of the pan from the bottom wall to just below the top opening;
• a plurality of openings in the side wall of said heat funnel, with the openings being spaced around the circumference of said side wall of said heat funnel, and with the openings further being positioned closely adjacent to the top wall of said heat funnel;
• a flat griddle member positioned on the upper edge of said side wall of said pan such that the flat griddle forms a top for the interior of the pane as well as a cooking surface that is heated by heat rising through said heat funnel and then distributed uniformly about the flat griddle by the openings in the side wall of said heat funnel;
• a curved first handle having opposite ends hingedly attached to the side wall of said pan at diametrically opposite locations on the side wall of said pan, whereby said first handle can be raised to a substantially vertical position lying in a vertical plane passing through the center, vertical axis of said interior of said pan, and further wherein said first handle can be lowered to a position below the upper edge of said pan;
• a pair of curved handles having opposite ends hingedly attached to an exterior surface of said griddle, with the opposite ends of each respective pair of second handles being displaced by an equal distance away from a center line through the griddle, with one pair of second handles being displaced on one side of said center line and with the other pair of second handles being displaced on the other side of said center line;
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• said pair of curved handles are of a size and shape that when said griddle is positioned on the upper edge of said side wall and the pair of second handles are raised and rotated toward each other, the central portions of said second handles meet in an adjacent side-by-side relationship with each other and further lie in a close adjacent relationship with the central portion of said first handle when said first handle is raised to its vertical position,
• whereby the pan and griddle positioned on the upper edge of said side wall of said pan can be lifted and moved as a stable unit by lifting the device at a common position formed by the adjacent central portions of said pair of second handles that lie in closed adjacent relationship to the central portion of said first handle.