Safety shut off for a portable cooker
OwnerJohn D. McLemore, Don McLemoreinventors
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Abstract
A cooking facilitator which is preferably portable and well suited for use as both a timer and cooking process facilitator having particular usefulness with cooking objects which have a characteristic associated with establishing a cooking time such as the weight of a turkey in the case of deep frying a turkey or the thickness of a steak in deep frying the same. A gas flow timer for shutting off an overheated or unattended cooking system is also featured.
Claims19
A gas flow shut-off system for use with an outdoor cooking apparatus with gas source and burner and cooking vessel support, comprising:
- a gas flow shut-off device, wherein said gas flow shut-off device is placed in line with a flexible gas flow conduit extending between an outlet of the burner and a source of gas from which the gas flow conduit extends;
- a timer in association with said gas flow shut-off device that triggers activity in said gas flow shut-off device upon a predetermined time interval passing, and
- wherein said cooking vessel includes a turkey fryer pot.
A method of cooking a turkey with an outdoor cooking apparatus with gas source, burner, gas flow conduit feeding gas from said gas source to said burner, a cooking vessel and a cooking vessel support, comprising:
- placing a turkey in said cooking vessel with cooking oil and setting a timer associated with a gas flow shut-off device positioned in line with said gas flow conduit, and, prior to a cooking time completion of the turkey, resetting the timer, associated with said shut-off device to ensure attentiveness in an operator of the cooking apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.