Patent ID: 6024081
Filing Date: 2000-02-15
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A cooking grate adapted for the cooking of cylindrical foodstuffs comprising:a unitary grate body having an upper cooking surface, a lower heat collecting surface, a rear edge, a forward edge, a left side, and a right side, said grate body being corrugated to form a plurality of substantially parallel and adjacent cooking troughs for receiving items of cylindrical foodstuff therein, each said trough having a spine extending in a transverse direction between said rear edge and said forward edge of said grate body, and leit and right cooking faces originating at said spine and diverging upwardly, each said left cooking face converging with one of a right cooking face of an adjacent trough and said left side of said grate body to form a peak and each said right cooking face converging with one of a left cooking face of an adjacent trough and said right side of said grate body to form a peak;a plurality of lower heat ports, each said lower heat port comprising an opening in said grate body disposed entirely in one said trough and beginning at a left boundary on said left cooking face of said trough at an elevation lower than the peak at the top of said left cooking face, extending downwardly through the spine of said trough, and up said right cooking face of said trough to a right boundary located below said peak at the top of said right cooking face; anda plurality of upper heat ports, each said upper heat port comprising an opening in said grate body and beginning at a left end on one of said right cooking faces in one of said troughs at an elevation higher than said spine of said trough, extending through said peak at the top of said right cooking face, and down said left cooking face of the adjacent trough to a right end located above the spine of said adjacent trough,said lower and upper heat ports being arranged in rows which extend generally horizontally along the width of said grate body between said left and right sides of said grate body, said rows being uniform in and of themselves in that each said row is dedicated to one of said lower heat sorts and said upper heat ports, the unitary nature of the grate body being such that portions of upper heat ports reside in the same troughs as lower heat ports.