Patent ID: 8309151

Claim:
A method for cooking unitary foods in liquid utilizing an associated food support member and an associated pool of hot liquid, and the method comprising the steps of: positioning a unitary article of food so that it is supported by the associated food support member as a supported unitary article of food; extending a vertically extensible wall from a vertical wall associated with a liquid vessel; lowering, from a relatively raised position, the food support member while it is supporting the unitary article of food in a first orientation into a pool of hot liquid disposed in the liquid vessel to a depth where a first part of, but not all of, the supported unitary article of food is immersed in the liquid; leaving the food support member and the supported unitary article of food stationary in the hot liquid in the first orientation for a selected time period long enough for cooking to occur in the first part of the supported unitary article of food; repositioning the supported unitary article of food relative to the food support member to a second orientation such that a second part of the supported unitary article of food including a portion not previously submersed in the pool of hot liquid, becomes immersed in the pool of hot liquid; and, leaving the food support member and the supported unitary article of food stationary in the hot liquid in the second orientation long enough for cooking to occur in the second part of the supported unitary article of food, wherein the first and second parts of the supported unitary article of food mutually overlap and wherein the cooking operation is substantially completed in connection with disposition of the unitary article of food a single time in the first and second orientations.