Patent ID: 8003921

Claim:
A cooking apparatus, having a top opening that is used for manipulating food during cooking, and that includes a base, a cooking receptacle that receives food to be cooked and that rests upon the base, and a skirt that includes a closed side wall surrounding the cooking receptacle and extending vertically from the base up to at least a free top end of the side wall of the cooking receptacle, wherein the skirt is removable from the base and is designed to be attached to it, the skirt including an annular wall that is carried by the closed side wall of the skirt at a free top end thereof, and that extends, in a horizontal plane, towards an interior of the receptacle, beyond the free top end of the receptacle side wall, and the annular wall of the skirt including a first series of orifices traversing the annular wall, in a zone located between a free inner end of the skirt annular wall and the free top end of the receptacle side wall.