Cooking grill liners

For an electric cooking grill having stationary and moveably heated grilling members connected together for pivotal movement therebetween by a pivotal connection each grilling member having a cooking surface including raised cooking ribs wherein both sides of food placed between the closed grilling surfaces are heated to a desired cooking temperature, a disposable grill liner for each of the grilling surfaces comprising:

• an unperforated sheet of aluminum foil preformed for close mating fitting and substantially covering the corresponding grilling surface whereby cooking heat provided to each grilling surface is substantially transferred through the corresponding said grilling liner to cook the food while substantially preventing food and juices flowing from the cooking food from coming in contact with the grilling surfaces;
• each said grill liner having a portion of a perimeter margin thereof rigidized by multiple layers of said foil folded over against itself for maintaining the preformed shape during installation, use and removal of each said grill liner after use;
• said grill liner for the grilling surface of the moveable grill member including a narrow slot formed by doubling a distal portion of said perimeter margin to fit over a distal portion of the flange of the moveable grill member and further including a locking tab extending from a proximal portion of said perimeter margin to be inserted into a gap between mating portions of the pivotal connection between the grilling members;
• whereby said grill liner for the moveable grilling member is substantially retained in position against the corresponding grilling surface as the moveable grilling member is opened and closed.