Patent ID: 8973490
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: A23L,A47J

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cooking and flavoring food comprising: a pan having a bottom and a plurality of uniform perforations formed in and arranged across said bottom; and a detachable cylinder having a bottom surface, a generally circular sidewall extending upward from said bottom surface, and a plurality of fasteners formed on the bottom surface, each of the fasteners being equally-sized and shaped to fit into any one of the plurality of uniform perforations in the bottom of the pan, and the plurality of fasteners being arranged on the bottom surface to correspond with an arrangement of any one of a plurality of subsets of the uniform perforations in the bottom of the pan, each subset containing a preset number of the uniform perforations, wherein each of the plurality of subsets corresponds to a different location in the bottom of the pan for attaching the detachable cylinder to the pan, wherein the detachable cylinder is optionally secured to the pan at a given location by coupling the plurality of fasteners to the subset of the uniform perforations that corresponds to the given location and by rotating the detachable cylinder in a first direction to move the plurality of fasteners into a locked position, and wherein the detachable cylinder is optionally disengaged from the pan by rotating the detachable cylinder in a second direction to move the plurality of fasteners into an unlocked position and by uncoupling the plurality of fasteners from the corresponding subset of the uniform perforations in the bottom of the pan.