Cooking device and method of cooking
AssigneeTendermoist, LLC
InventorsShuki Levy, Tori Avey
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Abstract
A cooking device, for insertion into food, having a shell with a top portion and a bottom portion, securable together at a latitudinal cross section of the shell. The top portion has one or more steam holes to allow seasoning placed in the device to permeate the food during the cooking process. The cooking device can be stood on its base in an upright position for filling with seasoning, and can then be disposed substantially perpendicular to the upright position during the cooking process, without seasoning that is not in a gaseous phase running or spilling out of the steam holes.
Claims21
A cooking device for insertion into food comprising:
- a shell having a top portion and a bottom portion, wherein the top portion is securable to the bottom portion at a latitudinal cross section of the shell;
- the top portion having one or more holes therein;
- the bottom portion having a base with a surface disposed in a plane substantially parallel to the latitudinal cross section of the shell to enable the cooking device to be stood on the base in a substantially upright position;
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- the base further configured for use to facilitate removal of the device from food;
- a fill line in the bottom portion for filling the bottom portion with liquid when the bottom portion is in the substantially upright position;
- wherein the volume below the fill line in the bottom portion is less than the volume of the shell below the one or more holes when the cooking device is in a substantially horizontal position.
The cooking device of claim wherein:
- the top portion has a groove to accommodate a top gasket;
- the bottom portion has a groove to accommodate a bottom gasket;
- a disc disposed at a latitudinal cross-sectional plane of the shell at the intersection of the top portion and bottom portion and securable between the top portion gasket and the bottom portion gasket;
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- the disc having one or more holes disposed therein.
A cooking device for insertion into food comprising:
- a shell having a top portion and a bottom portion, wherein the top portion is securable to the bottom portion at a latitudinal cross section of the shell;
- the top portion having one or more holes therein;
- the bottom portion having a base with a surface disposed in a plane substantially parallel to the latitudinal cross section of the shell to enable the cooking device to be stood on the base in a substantially upright position;
- the base further configured for use to facilitate removal of the device from food;
- a safety component for maintaining or biasing the cooking device in a substantially horizontal resting position;
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- a fill line in the bottom portion for filling the bottom portion with liquid when the bottom portion is in the substantially upright position;
- wherein the volume below the fill line in the bottom portion is less than the volume of the shell below the holes when the cooking device is in a substantially horizontal position;
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- wherein the shell and base are formed from a food-grade metal or alloy.
A cooking device for insertion into food comprising:
- a shell having a top portion and a bottom portion, wherein the top portion is securable to the bottom portion at a latitudinal cross section of the shell;
- the top portion having one or more holes therein;
- a disc disposed at a latitudinal cross-sectional plane of the shell at the intersection of the top portion and bottom portion and securable between the top portion gasket and the bottom portion gasket;
- the disc having one or more holes disposed therein;
- the bottom portion having a base with a surface disposed in a plane substantially parallel to the latitudinal cross section of the shell to enable the cooking device to be stood on the base in a substantially upright position;
- a fill line in the bottom portion for filling the bottom portion with liquid when the bottom portion is in the substantially upright position;
- wherein the volume below the till line in the bottom portion is less than the volume of the bottom portion of the shell below the one or more holes in the disc when the cooking device is in a substantially horizontal position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.