Patent ID: 7097064

Claim:
A dual wall cooking vessel, the vessel comprising: a) an inner vessel having a bottom portion surrounded by vertical walls terminating at an inner rim to form an inner surface for containing fluids, b) an outer vessel having a bottom portion surrounded by vertical walls terminating at an outer rim to form an inner surface capable of containing fluids and surrounding the inner vessel, c) wherein the inner vessel is nested within the outer vessel such that the inner rim and the outer rim are concentrically aligned with each other, and a cavity is formed between the inner surface of the outer vessel and the outer surface of the inner vessel, d) a thermally conductive material interposed between the inner surface of the outer vessel and the outer surface of the inner vessel, said material bonding the inner and outer vessel together, and extending continuously over the horizontal bottoms of the inner and outer vessel and upward to partially fill a vertical portion of the cavity adjacent to the bottom portion of each of said inner and said outer vessel, wherein a cavity remains in the vertical space between the vertical walls of the inner and outer vessel above the partially filled portion.