Patent ID: 8025007

Claim:
A combination for deep frying food items in a cooking fluid, comprising: a cooking basket having a bottom surface and a sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom surface, the sidewall and bottom surface cooperating to define an interior cavity; a pot which is shaped complementary to and is sized to receive said cooking basket within an interior opening; and a plurality of cooking racks, each rack comprising: a flat body having a wire mesh screen and a border which encloses a periphery of the screen, said border having an outer edge which is complementarily shaped with said sidewall; and a plurality of spaced handles mounted to said body, each of said handles including an elongated bail which is parallel to said body, wherein each of said bails have an uppermost surface and each of said uppermost surfaces are coplanar; wherein said cooking racks are stackable upon each other vertically such that each stacked cooking rack rests upon the bail uppermost surfaces of the adjacent lower cooking rack and wherein one of said cooking racks comprises a bottom cooking rack, said bottom cooking rack further comprising a plurality of spaced legs mounted to a bottom side of said body, each of said legs including an elongated foot which is parallel to said body.