Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza and the like

A container for transporting heated food, formed by an upper and a lower half-shell made of moulded plastic material, each of said upper and said lower half-shell having a bottom wall and a lateral wall, said upper and said lower half-shell being provided with substantially sealing mutual couplers in correspondence of said lateral walls and defining, in the mutually coupled condition, a cavity for containing said food in a spaced-apart condition relative to the bottom walls of said upper and said lower half-shell, and wherein said bottom wall of said upper half-shell is provided with vent openings, wherein said bottom walls of said upper and said lower half-shell are formed with respective radially extending spacer projections, wherein adjacent spacer projections form channels, and wherein said channels in said bottom wall of said lower half-shell contain radially extending recesses below the plane of the lower half-shell, whereby said channels in said lower half-shell define chimneys for collecting and directing steam radially outwardly and upwardly past the food, the channels in said upper half-shell direct the steam to the vent openings and the recesses in the lower half-shell collect condensed steam.