Cooking apparatus

A barbecue cooking system comprising:

• a fire bowl comprising peripheral walls, a continuous bottom and an open top, said peripheral walls defining an internal chamber, said peripheral walls comprising a top portion and an internal surface;
• a grill located within said internal chamber;
• a lid mountable on said fire bowl;
• a stand for supporting said fire bowl;
• at least one handle;
• and
• at least one shelf pivotally mounted to said peripheral walls at said internal surface and below said top portion of said fire walls, said shelf being foldable into said fire bowl during a storage position and extendable from said fire bowl during a usage position, said handle supporting said shelf during said usage position.

A cooking apparatus comprising:

• a fire bowl comprising an exterior undersurface and a pair of spaced apart handles;
• a lid removably engagable with said fire bowl;
• and
• a stand to be locatable against said exterior undersurface to spacingly position said fire bowl from a supporting surface during a usage position, said stand being situated atop said lid in a close conforming manner and connected to said handles of said fire bowl during a non-use position.