Patent ID: 7975857

Claim:
A cooking utensil supporting apparatus for collecting liquid drainage from utensils resting on the apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a support body enabled for resting on a horizontal surface, the support body having a first and a second spaced-apart and mutually parallel walls, each of the walls terminating upwardly with a horizontal top edge, the walls each having a plurality of downwardly extending slots therein, with pairs of said slots positioned in the spaced-apart walls in corresponding alignment whereby a utensil may be rested within one of the correspondingly aligned slots; a further V-shaped slot having two opposing surfaces extending downwardly into the support body and spaced apart from the walls the opposing surfaces positioned for holding a utensil in a tilted orientation; a depressed surface of the apparatus positioned between the walls below the top edges thereof, whereby liquid drainage within the plurality of slots is directed into, and collected within, the depressed surface; wherein the top edge of the first of the walls is elevated relative to the top edge of the second of the walls; and further comprising a horizontal tray extending away from the support body adjacent to the first of the walls, whereby, due to a difference in height of the walls, a dripping end of a utensil is elevated above the horizontal tray when a handle of the utensil is rested on the walls.