Barbecue grill with variably positioned food basket

A barbecue grill, comprising:

• a housing providing a top cooking level suitable for supporting a gridiron and providing space below the top cooking level;
• at least two opposed heat panels located in said space below the top cooking level, spaced laterally apart to thereby establish a central cooking zone between the heat panels and below the top cooking level, and oriented to direct cooking heat laterally into said central cooking zone;
• a food basket variably oriented with respect to the housing in either an approximately horizontal position or an approximately vertical position, suitably configured to be opened and loaded with foodstuff when in said approximately horizontal position and suitably configured to retain foodstuff when in either position, and suitably sized to at least partially fit in the central cooking zone when in said approximately vertical position;
• a moving means for bidirectionally moving said food basket between the approximately horizontal position and the approximately vertical position, wherein in the approximately horizontal position the moving means locates the food basket near the top cooking level and in the approximately vertical position the moving means locates the food basket in the central cooking zone;
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• a user operated control selectively actuating the moving means to move the food basket toward a selected position.