This invention is a specialized cooking device which allows access of naturally occurring convection currents of heated air within a cooking oven to evenly and efficiently cook the surface area, all the way through to the interior, of food items placed within its confines.
Common cooking apparatuses tend to cook food unevenly as the surface where the item is placed becomes heated and acts as a secondary surface for cooking the food. This process is inefficient as the majority of the oven's internal heat is used to heat the secondary surface rather than the intended targets being the food items. It is also inefficient with regards to time, as well as energy, as the food items end up cooked on only one side rather than from all angles. In order to cook the opposing side of the food items, one must flip over each food item individually thus repeating the initial steps of the cooking process. This process can also have the undesired side effect of over cooking the food on one or both sides.
I have found that these disadvantages can be overcome by inserting the food items into a uniquely shaped stainless steel grate matrix which allows the oven's natural convection currents to evenly and efficiently cook the food from all angles. The food is cooked all the way through, without burning, as the minimized surface area makes it less likely for the food to be over cooked on any of its sides. This quick and efficient process allows for thorough cooking in no more than half the time of common cooking apparatuses.
In drawings which illustrate embodiments of the invention, DRAWING 0 is a three dimensional rear view where the two main sections of the device are indicated and labeled as the cooking grid hemispheres and the floating hinge that joins them, which are broken down in detail via DRAWING 1 and DRAWING 2 respectively. The two final images, PHOTOGRAPH 1 and PHOTOGRAPH 2, respectively show the invention in its pristine manufactured state and then put into practice in an example of its intended usage as a cooking device.
DRAWING 1, Illustration A, is a top view of the cooking grid itself. The entire unit is constructed of surgical grade stainless steel #304 (NiB). Figure I denotes the length of the object at 438 mm and Figure II denotes its width at 203 mm. The entire rim of each hemisphere is constructed from stainless steel wire with a diameter of 4.8 mm, as denoted by Figure IX. The front and rear straight edges of the outer rim of the object are 366 mm as denoted by Figure III. At that point, the outer rim bends 55 degrees, denoted in Figure XII, for a length of 55 mm, as denoted in Figure XIX. The rim is then bent back straight down for a length of 108 mm, shown in Figure XX, which forms the gripping handle edges of the unit. These handles have a gap that extends for 40 mm on either side of the unit, as denoted in Figure X, from the outer handle edge to the inner rim bars which are both 193.4 mm in length, as shown in Figure XVIII. These inner rim bars are welded to the outer rim, thus making the entire rim, handles and all, one solid rim.
DRAWING 1, Illustration A, Figure IV, shows where the actual grating itself begins, and continues for a length of 349 mm, and a width, as shown in Figure II, of 203 mm. This grating is constructed from 18 gauge surgical grade stainless steel wire #304 (NiB) with a diameter of 1.2 mm, as denoted in Figure VIII. The 203 mm lengths of wire (Figure II) and the 349 mm lengths of wire (Figure IV) are welded to the frame, from tip to tip, forming the grating surface which is comprised of equal 14 mm (Figure VI) by 14 mm (Figure VII) spacing.
DRAWING 1, Illustration B and Illustration C, Figures XIV & XV, show the 110 degree bend in the 18 guage wire that is made after the wire has traveled 6 mm (Illustration B, Figure XIII) from the welding point at the rim. The process is then repeated in the reverse when the wire reaches the other end of the rim where it is subsequently welded into place.
DRAWING 1, Illustration C, Figure XVII, denotes the lip depth from the rim to the lower grating surface. This lower grating surface, the actual cooking area itself, is 324.7 mm long (Illustration A, Figure V), by 171.9 mm wide (Illustration A, Figure XI).
DRAWING 1, Illustration D, shows a three dimensional view of what each cooking hemisphere looks like upon completion of construction.
DRAWING 2, Illustration A,
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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26351976 | Jul 2008 | CA | national |