Patent ID: 8336450

Claim:
A cooking apparatus, comprising: a) a frame having a base with sockets that are receptive of fork lift tines; b) legs on the frame that support a pot holder; c) a pot assembly removably supportable on the pot holder, the pot assembly including an inner pot for holding a first fluid that is a cooking medium; d) the pot assembly including a jacket that is attached to and that surrounds the inner pot, the jacket being spaced away from the inner pot side wall to provide a gap in between the jacket and first pot for holding ice; e) a first flowline that enables the inner pot to be drained via gravity; f) a second flowline that enables the space in between the jacket and inner pot to be drained via gravity as the ice melts; g) wherein the flowlines enable a draining of either the inner pot or the jacketed space independently of the other; h) a burner element supported upon the frame below the inner pot bottom, the burner element positioned so that it heats the cooking medium in the inner pot; and i) wherein the jacket is spaced radially away from the burner element.