Patent ID: 7617948

Claim:
A cookware article comprising, a) a fluid containing vessel having a substantially planar portion of the interior bottom cooking surface and substantially upright surrounding walls extending there from to terminate in a first rim, b) a lower surrounding cover portion having a lower surface adapted for sealing engagement with the first rim of said fluid containing vessel and terminating at a second rim, c) an upper cover adapted for sealed engagement with the second rim of said lower surrounding cover portion wherein said lower surrounding cover portion slopes inward and upward to the second rim such that the upper cover has a smaller circumference than the substantially planar portion of the interior bottom cooking surface, wherein the upper cover is a plate having two substantially planar and parallel surfaces that extend over the width thereof between the second rim of the said lower surrounding cover portion of the lid surfaces, without any portion extending substantially above the second rim, d) one or more handles disposed on each of said fluid containing vessel and said upper cover for grasping and separating said upper cover from said lower surrounding cover portion.