Patent ID: 8869685

Claim:
A food preparation apparatus comprising: a frame assembly; a permanent shelf secured to said frame assembly; a plurality of selectable shelf features vertically offset from the permanent shelf and attached to the frame assembly; and a first non-permanent shelf vertically offset from the permanent shelf and supported by a select number of the plurality of selectable shelf features, wherein the permanent shelf, but less than all the shelves attached to the frame assembly, provides a food stuff support region and a flavor infusion region, the flavor infusion region adjacent to and confining a flavor infusion component on at least two but no more than three sides, the infusion region in non-contacting adjacency with the flavor infusion component, the food stuff support region comprising a plurality of unidirectional, adjacent, spaced apart support members, in which space between each spaced apart support members is void of structure along an entire length of the spaced apart support members.