Multi-use outdoor cooker for selectively frying, boiling or steaming food items

An outdoor cooking apparatus comprising:

• a) a cooking vessel having a bottom wall, side wall having a side wall upper end, open top and vessel interior;
• b) a basket that is sized and shaped to fit the vessel interior, the basket having a basket side wall that is shorter than the vessel side wall, a bottom panel with an inner surface, an outer surface, and multiple fastener receptive openings, each having a first diameter;
• c) a skewer rack that is connectable to the basket bottom panel, the rack having multiple inclined skewers, each skewer having an upper end with an internally threaded opening;
• d) a plurality of fasteners that are each connectable to said internally threaded opening, each fastener having a head with a second diameter larger than said first diameter;
• e) each fastener having an externally threaded shaft sized and shaped to fit through a said fastener receptive opening, said shaft connectable to a said internally threaded opening;
• f) wherein the rack is selectively connectable to the basket bottom panel inner surface for skewering food items to be cooked in the basket interior when the basket occupies the vessel interior;
• g) wherein the rack is selectively connectable to the basket bottom panel outer surface by connecting each skewer upper end to the basket bottom, wherein the skewer rack supports the basket in an elevated position above the cooking vessel bottom and above the upper end of each skewer but below the vessel side wall upper end;
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• h) wherein the basket enables items to be cooked within the basket when the basket occupies the vessel interior and wherein the skewer rack is not connected to the basket.