Patent ID: 7174885

Claim:
A cooking apparatus, comprising: a cabinet opened at a top surface thereof to provide an opening over which food to be cooked is laid; a grill unit seated in the opening of the cabinet so as to support the food over the opening; a heating unit installed in the cabinet at a position offset from an effective grill part of the grill unit so that a front surface of the heating unit faces the grill unit to transmit thermal energy to the grill unit supporting the food laid thereon; a heat blocking member integrally extending from a reflecting member of the heating unit, to extend below a predetermined portion of the grill unit to reflect and block a part of the thermal energy transmitted to an edge of the grill unit, allowing the thermal energy to be uniformly transmitted to the food laid on the grill unit; and a cover member extending from an edge of the opening to cover an upper surface of the heat blocking member and downwardly inclined so that a material dropping from the food laid on the grill unit is guided into the opening.