Patent ID: 7707929

Claim:
An outdoor cooking apparatus comprising: a) a burner frame having upper and lower end portions, the lower end portion being configured to engage an underlying support surface and a pot support; b) a burner element mounted on the frame; c) a pot that rests upon the pot support during cooking, the pot having a bottom panel of a first area, a plurality of sidewalls, an open top of a second area, an interior for holding a cooking fluid, and a pot rim; d) a plurality of said sidewalls having a trapezoid shaped lower section that provides a smaller lower wall end portion and a larger upper wall end portion and some of the wall sections have lower inclined wall sections that forms an obtuse angle with an upper wall section that is above the inclined wall section, and a seam defines the intersection of inclined lower and upper wall sections; e) multiple food holding inserts that are sized and shaped to fit the pot interior, wherein a first said insert rests upon the pot bottom panel in a cooking position and a second insert is supported by the first insert in an elevated position spaced above the pot bottom; f) the first insert having multiple upwardly projecting skewers, each skewer being sized and shaped to hold a poultry carcass, the second insert including a perforated portion that enables food items placed on the first insert to be steamed, wherein the perforated portion is positioned at an elevation above the skewers; and g) wherein the frame has a peripheral member that surrounds the pot.