Patent ID: 9681776
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A47J

Claim:
1. An adapter assembly for a slow cooker having a bottom and walls, and heating elements embedded in the walls and bottom, comprising: at least first and second identically shaped trays, each tray forming a separate basin, having substantially vertical walls configured to nest in side-by-side fashion when supported within the slow cooker to form a composite array for providing a divided cooking area; wherein each tray includes a curved outside wall opposite a straight inside wall attached to the curved wall at respective ends thereof, the inside wall further including at a first location a laterally extending lifting loop protruding therefrom and a laterally extending indentation in the inside wall at a second location adjacent to the loop, such that the loop of one tray is received within the indentation of a second tray when the first and second trays are nested together.