Cooking vessel

A cooking vessel for receiving product to be cooked and enabling controlled spilling of cooking liquid and ventilation during cooking and spilling, said cooking vessel comprising:

• a vessel body including a vessel wall defining an axis of said vessel body and a substantially planar spill rim extending outwardly from and circumferentially around an upper axial end of said vessel wall, said vessel wall including an upper rim segment joined to said spill rim and including at least one peripheral region that is sloped and inclined relative to said axis at a greater angle than a remaining peripheral region of said upper rim segment, said at least one peripheral region extending to and defining a peripheral portion of said spill rim having a reduced radial dimension and forming an opening region;
• a cover having extending outwardly therefrom and circumferentially therearound a substantially planar cover rim, said cover being positionable to close said vessel body by said cover rim being positioned on said spill rim and said cover being movable about said axis relative to said vessel body to selected rotational positions, said cover rim having at least one peripheral segment defined by at least one spill arch in said cover rim, said spill arch projecting radially and communicating with said opening region when said cover is at an open rotational position relative to said vessel body whereat said at least one peripheral segment of said cover rim is circumferentially aligned with said at least one peripheral region of said vessel body, thereby defining a spill passage, said at least one peripheral segment of said cover rim having a circumferential dimension no greater than a circumferential dimension of said remaining peripheral region of said upper rim segment of said vessel body;
• at least one vessel handle formed of a thermal insulating material and attached to said vessel wall at a position displaced circumferentially by approximately 90.degree. from a radial center line of said at least one peripheral region;
• an elongated cover handle formed of a thermal insulating material and attached to said cover with a longitudinal dimension of said cover handle displaced circumferentially by approximately 90.degree. from a radial centerline of said at least one peripheral segment of said cover rim;
• whereby, at said open rotational position of said cover relative to said vessel body said cover handle is aligned with said at least one vessel handle;
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• whereby, at a closed rotational position of said cover relative to said vessel body, whereat said at least one peripheral segment of said cover rim is circumferentially aligned with said remaining peripheral region of said upper rim segment of said vessel body, said cover handle is displaced circumferentially by approximately 90.degree. from said at least one vessel handle.