Patent ID: 8381639

Claim:
A method of cooking an egg product, comprising: placing an egg product into a volume defined by an interior wall of a ring for retaining food disposed on a cooking surface, wherein the ring for retaining food comprises a recess allowing lateral movement of the ring; cooking the egg product in the ring; and after cooking the egg product, releasing the egg product from the ring while the ring and egg product are on the cooking surface by inserting a ring-shaped release member complementary to and within the interior wall of the ring containing the cooked egg product to release the cooked egg product from the interior wall of the ring by movement of the ring-shaped release member along the interior wall of the ring containing the cooked eqg while the ring for retaining food remains on the cooking surface, the ring-shaped release member fitting closely to the interior wall of the ring, wherein the ring-shaped release member is separate from the ring for retaining food.