Patent ID: 7694671

Claim:
A stovetop wok cooking system comprising in combination: a flame focusing ring resting on the stovetop surface under the stovetop grate immediately surrounding the gas jet in close proximity to the gas jet, the flame focusing ring comprising an annular ring of fire proof material having a circular bottom ring opening encircling the gas jet spaced apart from the gas jet in close proximity to the gas jet, an annular inwardly concave curved wall extending upwardly from the bottom ring opening to a top ring opening smaller in diameter than the gas jet so that the flame focusing ring focuses fire from the gas jet upwardly and inwardly into a hot jet of flame contacting a bottom center portion of a wok, the flame focusing ring having air vent openings around a bottom perimeter to admit air therethrough to force the flame from the gas jet upwardly and inwardly; and a wok support comprising a truncated conical shaped fireproof structure having a series of spaced air vent openings therethrough and having a circular bottom support opening configured with means to rest on and straddle a radial array of cooking vessel support members on a variety of stovetop grates above a gas jet on a stove top, the means to rest on and straddle the radial array of cooking vessel support members of the stovetop grate above the gas jet on the stove top comprising a continual array of break-away tabs around the entire edge of the bottom support opening, each of the tabs equal in width to a radial cookware support member of the stovetop grate so that a series of spaced tabs around the bottom support opening can be broken off to create a series of bottom notches in the bottom support opening to match each of the radial cookware support members so that the wok support is removably secured on the top of any of a wide range of sizes of stovetop grates by each notch straddling one of the radial cookware support members of any of the stovetop grates, and a circular top support opening smaller in diameter than the bottom support opening, the top support opening configured to support a wok cooking vessel resting on the top support opening with a bottom of the wok cooking vessel resting within the wok support extending down into the wok support above the gas jet so that the hot jet of flame contacts the bottom center portion of the wok.