Patent ID: 9198539
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: A23L,A47B,A47J,F24C

Abstract:
1. An outdoor cooking apparatus comprising: a) a pedestal having a pedestal periphery with an area, the pedestal including a plurality of pedestal walls, each wall with an inside surface and an outside surface, a plurality of pedestal corners, an upper end portion, a lower end portion and an interior with a pedestal space; b) a fuel canister that is contained within the pedestal space; c) a rectangular top supported upon the upper end portion of the pedestal, the top having a top periphery with an area that is larger than the area of the pedestal periphery, said top periphery including four top sides and four top corners; d) three of said pedestal walls having an outer surface that is concave relative to a vertical axis, said concave surface extending to said rectangular top to provide a plurality of three knee space areas under the top and in between the pedestal periphery and top periphery, each knee space enabling a user to occupy a seat next to the top and to extend his or her legs under the top and within the top periphery, and wherein each knee space area includes one side of the top periphery, one pedestal wall, and the area under the pedestal top in between the said one side of the top periphery and the outside surface of said one pedestal wall; e) wherein each knee space area is separated from another of the knee space areas by a said top corner and a said pedestal corner; f) the top having an upper surface, a part of said upper surface being a cooking surface that can be heated to a cooking temperature, said cooking surface having four cooking surface sides; g) a plurality of tiles that partially surround the cooking surface, each tile being removable and not adhered to the top; h) one side of the top periphery being generally aligned with a side of the cooking surface periphery; i) wherein one of the pedestal walls is not a knee space area, providing a chefs station for a chef wherein the cooking surface extends to the top periphery; j) the chefs station having one or more control knobs that enable a chef to control the cooking surface temperature when the chef is occupying the chefs station; and k) one or more cool zone areas that are not part of the cooking surface or tiles and each being positioned in between one or more tiles and the cooking surface; and l) ventilation openings in each said pedestal wall extending through the pedestal wall from the inside surface to the outside surface thereof.