Patent ID: 7301127

Claim:
A cooking device comprising; A base having front, side, back faces, and an opening of the top, and a grate mounted at the top opening, An electric heating element mounted in the base beneath the grate, a substantially flat grease tray slidably mounted below the heating element in the base and removable through the front of the base by handles accessible at the front face of the base; a digital microprocessor-based temperature controller mounted below the grease tray and inside the base, a control panel with temperature display means on the front face and below the grease tray handles, the display indicating both the operating and set point temperatures; a hood attached to the top surface of the base and surrounding the sides and back of the top opening, the hood having substantially flat, vertical sides and back, a substantially horizontal, rectangular top portion with opposing side, front, and back edges, the opposing side edges joined to the top edges of the hood sides, the back edge joined to the top edge of the hood back, and the front edge joined by a horizontal hinge to a fitted lid which closes against both a top portion of both hood sides and the front of both hood sides to completely seal the cooking space, the substantially planar surfaces of the lid being perpendicular to the substantially planar surface of the hood sides.