Patent ID: 7861705

Claim:
An expandable vertical food cooker, comprising: (a) an open-bottomed upper warming portion comprising: a removable support frame, a grill support device attached to the support frame, an adjustable upper air vent, and an openable cooker lid, the support frame comprising a substantially cylindrical-shaped upper collar and at least two spaced apart rails extending generally downward from the upper collar and insertable into a cooker base portion; (b) the cooker base portion beneath the upper warming portion, the base portion comprising: a burn chamber, an adjustable base damper, a grill support device in the burn chamber, and a substantially planar fire pan at a bottom of the burn chamber; (c) a cooker mid portion between the upper warming portion and the base portion, the mid portion comprising between one and six substantially cylindrically shaped, open-bottomed, stackable cooking drawers, each of the cooking drawers being independently pivotably openable, each of the cooking drawers comprising a grill support device within the cooking drawer, the cooking drawers being detachable from one another and interchangeable with one another; each of the cooking drawers comprising a substantially vertically oriented hinge pin channel on the cooking drawer, and a hinge pin within the hinge pin channel, an end of the hinge pin protruding from the hinge pin channel; and (d) at least one removable grill grate supportable on the grill grate device; wherein the cooker base portion and the upper collar each comprise either a hinge pin hole, or a protrusion insertable in the corresponding hinge pin channel of an adjacent one of the cooking drawers, the end of the hinge pin being insertable in the hinge pin hole.