Patent ID: 8025008

Claim:
An apparatus for preparing a food item, comprising: a carrier holding at least one food component in a compartment, the compartment forming part of the carrier, the carrier formed of a first carrier element and a second carrier element, portions of each carrier element forming part of the compartment; a carrier conveyor assembly, the carrier attached to the carrier conveyor assembly, to convey the carrier from a first position to a second position; the carrier conveyor assembly tilting the first and second carrier elements relative each other in the second position such that the portions of the carrier elements forming the compartment tilt relative each other to release the food component from the compartment, said carrier elements being identical, each carrier element having at least one first extension on a first side thereof and a plurality of second extensions on a second side thereof, the first extension on the first carrier element extending between the second extensions on the second carrier element to define said carrier, the carrier having a plurality of separate compartments, a partition separating each compartment.