Patent ID: 7500427

Claim:
An apparatus for cooking a food item in a hot liquid comprising: a basket having opposed foraminous side walls, opposed foraminous front and rear walls, a foraminous bottom, and an open top; a foraminous insert adapted to be insertable through the open top and to be removably locked in place at a predetermined position intermediate the top and bottom; a first handle affixed to the basket and extending upwardly and outwardly from said basket; a second handle affixed to the insert and extending upwardly and outwardly from said insert; a first insert support member fixed to said front wall at said predetermined position; a second insert support member fixed to said rear wall at said predetermined position, said first and second support members being adapted to lock said insert in position; and wherein said first support member comprises a pair of first inwardly extending protuberances on which one end of said insert will rest and a step extending inwardly and slightly downwardly to lock the insert in place, and wherein said second support member has a pair of second inwardly extending protuberances on which the other end of the insert will rest and a pair of third inwardly extending resilient protuberances over which the insert must pass in order to come to rest on said second inwardly extending protuberances.