A batter template system and related methods of forming custom pancakes. The batter template system can include one or more template mats made from flexible, non-stick materials that are suitable for use with food and can accommodate conventional cooking temperatures. The template mat can have thermal properties allowing for rapid heating and can be non-perforated. Each template mat can include a permanently etched design on one or both sides of a non-stick sheet. The template mat can be sized and shaped to fit onto a cooking surface of a countertop griddle, cooking pan or even range top surface. One or more pancake batters can be traced or otherwise applied to the etched design to form a pancake depicting a visual design element.

A removable cookware handle is disclosed for connection to a piece of cookware. The removable cookware handle can attach to an attachment member that is secured to the cookware piece. To facilitate locking and unlocking of the attachment member to the removable cookware handle, a plurality of button mechanism are present on the housing of the removable cookware handle. A first button mechanism of the plurality of button mechanisms is slidable in a longitudinal direction while the second button mechanism is depressible in a lateral direction. When unlocking the removable cookware handle from the attachment member, a user may depress the second button and manipulate the first button backward to allow the attachment member to be released from a locking cavity within the housing.

“Put It Out” is an essential device for home cooks and student cooks to professional chefs, young and old to put out stove top grease fires fast, easy, safe, without fear, and no mess. The “Put It Out” will expand your limitations to operate and enjoy your cooking experience even if a stove top grease fire may arise. Easy to use, just turn the burner off and safely place the “Put It Out” over the grease fire and watch the grease fire be smothered and contained

Device for dispensing a food item into a hot fluid comprises a bowl having a permanent base and a movable plate positioned about the permanent base. A bottom of the bowl defines an opening for receiving a shaft extending therethrough. The shaft is coupled to the movable plate. A shank is selectively engaged with the bowl, the shank having a handle at a proximal end thereof. A lever is pivotably attached to the shank. The pivotal attachment is spaced apart from the bowl. The lever is detachably coupled to the shaft to impart translation of the movable plate. During operation, the lever is manipulated from a first position to a second position to push the shaft to move the movable plate to thereby eject the food item out of the bowl and into a hot fluid.

Electric cooking utensils that are adapted to be electrically heated to further the cooking process by contacting and heating food while the food is being manipulating by the utensil. In particular, an electrically heated spatula is adapted to transfer additional heat to a food item being cooked while being manipulated by the utensil and thereby expediting and improving the cooking process.

Disclosed herein is a detachable interlocking system for securing at least two articles together, the interlocking system including: a first interfacing portion; ii. a second interfacing portion; iii. the first and second interfacing portions being in complementary arrangement configured to engage with one another in a first engaged position and are moveable to a second interlocked position; iv. locking means to interlock the first and second interfacing portions together; v. reciprocating means to receive and accommodate the locking means; wherein movement from the first engaged position to the second interlocked position engages the locking means to interlock the first and second interfacing portions together.

A shell form and a method of using the shell form requires a wire form and a wire clip, a tortilla placed therebetween during the time that the tortilla is cooked in hot oil forming a taco shell.

Device for dispensing a food item into a hot fluid comprises a bowl having a permanent base and a movable plate positioned about the permanent base. A bottom of the bowl defines an opening for receiving a shaft extending therethrough. The shaft is coupled to the movable plate. A shank is selectively engaged with the bowl, the shank having a handle at a proximal end thereof. A lever is pivotably attached to the shank. The pivotal attachment is spaced apart from the bowl. The lever is detachably coupled to the shaft to impart translation of the movable plate. During operation, the lever is manipulated from a first position to a second position to push the shaft to move the movable plate to thereby eject the food item out of the bowl and into a hot fluid.

An illustrated view of an exemplary electric skillet for cooking is presented. The electric skillet is useful for providing an easy, efficient and safe way to cook using the electric skillet. The electric skillet is useful for avoiding scratches and nicks which can cause a shortened lifespan of the skillet, avoid creating spaces for bacteria to grow and an easy removing of food and clean-up of the electric skillet. The electric skillet preferably has a square or oblong shape, however other shapes are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, round, rectangular, octagonal, etc.

A cooking utensil is disclosed herein, in one example comprising: a cooking pan having a base panel with a perimeter sidewall extending thereabove around the circumference thereof so as to contain a volume of fluid in the cooking pan; a steamer pan positioned within the cooking pan above the base panel. A steamer dome attached to the steamer pan and extending vertically upwards therefrom. The steamer dome configured to extend into a food item to be cooked with a substantially non-permeable top cap so as to direct vapors from fluids heated within the cooking pan through the central void of the steamer insert plate and laterally through the side wall into the food item to be cooked.