Vertical grill

An electric grill for cooking food items, comprising:

• a housing having an external opening on a side thereof;
• at least one vertical grilling area disposed adjacent to a source of radiant heat energy, the vertical grilling area comprising a food holder configured for holding the food items adjacent to the source of radiant heat energy and preventing the food items from falling while allowing at least one of the liquefied fats, oils, and breakaway solids to separate and drop away from the food items;
• an external receptacle detachably connected to or detached from and adjacent to an outside of the housing and disposed outside of the housing during the operation of the grill and laterally removed from the grilling area;
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• an internal mechanism comprising one or more solid surfaces positioned under the food holder and configured to define a uninterrupted downward sloping path to redirect and evacuate at least one of the liquefied fats, oils, and breakaway solids produced during the cooking of the food items, as at least one of the liquefied fats, oils, and breakaway solids fall from the food items due to gravity downward from the cooking materials in the grill and are directed by the solid surfaces along the downward and lateral sloping path defined by the one or more solid surfaces extending through an interior of the housing and terminating outside the housing and depositing at least one of the fats, oils, and breakaway solids into the external receptacle for cooling therein;
• wherein the external receptacle is disposed such that the receptacle's bottom section on which at least one of the fats, oils, and breakaway solids are collected is lower than a lowest edge of the one or more solid surfaces.

An electric grill for cooking food items, comprising:

• a housing having an external opening on a vertical side thereof;
• at least one vertical grilling area disposed adjacent to a source of radiant heat energy, the vertical grilling area comprising a food holder configured for holding the food items adjacent to the source of radiant heat energy and preventing the food items from falling while allowing at least one of liquefied fats and breakaway solids to separate and drop away from the food items;
• an external receptacle detachably connected to an outside of the housing and disposed outside of the housing during the operation of the grill such that the external receptacle is laterally removed from the grilling area;
• an evacuation slide disposed below the source of radiant heat energy traversing downward and across and interior of the housing of the grill, and extending through the external opening and terminating outside the housing of the grill on a downward slope above the lowest point of the external receptacle and defining a path sloping downward along an entirety of the evacuation side to direct downward and laterally at least one of the liquefied fats and breakaway solids from the cooking of the food items that drop upon the evacuation slide to the external receptacle via the external opening;
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• wherein the external receptacle is either attached or adjacent to the opening such that at least one of the liquefied fats and breakaway solids exiting through the external opening drop into the external receptacle for cooling therein and removal of at least one of the liquefied fats and breakaway solids;
• wherein the external receptacle is disposed such that the receptacle's bottom section on which at least one of the liquefied fats and breakaway solids are collected is lower than a lower edge of the evacuation slide.

An electric grill for cooking food items, comprising:

• a housing having a front vertical side and back vertical side, the front side having an external opening;
• at least one vertical grilling area disposed adjacent to a source of radiant heat energy, the vertical grilling area comprising a food holder configured for holding the food items adjacent to the source of radiant heat energy and preventing the food items from falling while allowing at least of liquid waste and breakaway solids to separate and drop away from the food items;
• an external receptacle detachably connected to the external opening in the front vertical side of the housing, and connected during the operation of the grill, the external receptacle being disposed outside the housing and laterally removed from the grilling area;
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• an evacuation slide, comprising a solid sloping plane below the source of radiant heat and cooking food items, the evacuation slide sloping downward along the evacuation slide's entirety, such that a higher end of the slide is positioned closer to the back side of the housing a lower end of the slide is positioned closer to the front side of the housing, the slide configured to intersect, interrupt and redirect a direction of at least one of the liquid waste and breakaway solids falling from the food items throughout cooking;
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• wherein as at least one the falling liquid waste and solids lands on the evacuation slide, the slope of the evacuation slide allows gravity to carry at least one of the falling liquid waste and breakaway solids downward and laterally across an interior of the housing of the grill through the external opening in the front vertical side of the grill to the outside of the grill and into the external receptacle;
• wherein the external receptacle is disposed such that the external receptacle's bottom section on which at least one of the liquid waste and solids is collected is lower than the lower end of the evacuation slide.