Container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza and the like

A container for transporting heated food, particularly pizza (P) and the like, comprising in combination:

• an outer vessel (1;
• 101) having a bottom wall (3;
• 103), an openable lid (5;
• 104) and apertures (6;
• 106) communicating to the outside, and
• an inner receptacle formed by a plastic-material tray (2) to be fitted within said outer vessel (1;
• 101), said tray (2) having a base wall (7) and a raised perimetral edge (8), said base wall (7) having un upper face and a lower face and being provided with a plurality of first and second ribs (9, 10;
• 11) projecting from the upper face and from the lower face, respectively, of said base wall (7), said first ribs (9, 10) acting in use as support/spacer elements for the pizza (P) or the like relative to the upper face of said base wall (7) and defining therebetween cavities acting as chimneys for discharging smoke and steam, and said second ribs (11) acting as support/spacer elements between said tray (2) and said bottom wall (3;
• 103) of said outer vessel (1;
• 101), said second ribs (11) further defining on the upper face of said tray (2) collecting channels for any condensed steam communicating with said chimneys for discharging smoke and steam.