A frying pan includes a circular primary cooking surface having a center and a radius. A secondary cooking surface is contiguous with and outwardly projects from the primary cooking surface. The secondary cooking surface downwardly tapers to a rounded end, and has a central axis. A handle having a handle axis is connected to the primary cooking surface. The handle axis forms an angle of between 30 degrees and 60 degrees with the central axis of the secondary cooking surface. The pan wall has a boundary with the primary cooking surface. A point is disposed along the central axis at the boundary, the point being a radial distance from the center of the primary cooking surface. A distance between the point and the rounded end of the secondary cooking surface is at least 18 inches.

A cooking vessel includes a base having a flat bottom and a sidewall connected to and surrounding the base, thereby defining an interior space configured for containing food. The base comprises a layered composite material that includes a first layer of the composite material has a positive Poisson's ratio (PPR) and a second layer of the composite material is disposed in contact with the first layer. The cooking vessel includes a material having a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR).

The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods for a low-cost, disposable protective cover for handles and other objects. The disposable cover can include a flexible tube having first and second ends, an inner surface and an outer surface. One or more layers of the tube will preferably include corrugations, ridges, bumps or other non-smooth surface such that air spaces are formed between the handle and the inner surface, or the inner surface and the outer surface.

An article of cookware has a cooking body. A mounting part is coupled to the cooking body and includes a threaded aperture or a threaded stud. An insulator is coupled to the mounting part and has an aperture for allowing the threaded fastener or threaded stud to pass therethrough. A handle is coupled to the plastic insulator and has an aperture for allowing the threaded fastener or threaded stud to pass therethrough. The handle is fixedly secured to the mounting part, with the plastic insulator fixedly held between the handle and the mounting part, by securing the threaded fastener to the threaded aperture through the apertures on the plastic insulator and the handle or when the threaded nut is secured to the threaded stud, which passes through the apertures on the plastic insulator and the handle. The insulator reduces the conduction of heat into the handle.

A grip for a cookware handle includes a first side, a second side, a pocket between the first side and the second side, a first aperture in the first side, a second aperture in the second side, and a plug comprising a thumb grip. The plug is configured to retain the grip on a shaft received in the pocket by extending through the first aperture, the shaft, and the second aperture.

A cast iron skillet comprises a pan portion having a generally planar base portion and an upwardly extending and outwardly tapered wall portion integrally formed with the base portion. A handle has a base portion attached to an outer surface of the wall portion, an upwardly extending portion extending at an upward obtuse angle relative to a top edge of the wall portion, and a grasping portion depending from the upwardly extending portion and away from the pan portion, the grasping portion extending in a plane that is substantially parallel to the top edge of the wall portion.

Cooking vessel that includes a container bottom, a container top comprising a flared section extending to a rim and at least one handle coupled to or extending from an outside surface of the flared section.

A device for cooking foodstuff includes a frame having an opening; and an insert removably coupled to the frame at the opening. The coupled frame and insert form a cooking plate comprising a top cooking surface for supporting foodstuff thereon and a bottom heat-receiving surface for receiving heat from a heat source. The insert comprises a first side having a generally flat surface and a second side having a corrugated surface comprising a pattern of ridges. The insert can be coupled to the frame with the first or second side facing up so that the side that is facing up forms a part of the top cooking surface. A set of cookware is also provided, which includes the frame and a plurality of such inserts, wherein the inserts differ from one another in at least one of dimension, shape, and composition.

The profile shape of the vessel body and of handle portion is formed from a single sheet of metal to create a flat by cutting, stamping or blanking. An opening is created in the handle portion to reduce heat propagation. The shape of the pan body is formed by spinning with the flat handle portion. The handle is formed by creating three-dimensional contours in the handle portion of the blank. The neck portion has a flat section adjacent the pan body followed by sections of different curvature. One section of the neck portion has a deeply curved cross-section. That neck portion transitions to the hand grip portion which has a reduced curvature, particularly toward the unattached end of the handle. The neck portion may have a W cross sectional shape. The handle grip portion may have a U shaped cross-section for comfort.

A food cooking management device configured to be removably positioned on a cooking vessel, the cooking management device including a control device in which is stored data characterizing a type of cooking vessel on which the cooking management device is positioned and/or several cooking cycles activated by a control unit, as well as a segmented liquid crystal display that permits emitting visual signals to the user, wherein the control device is configured to activate one or more segments of the display to permit displaying a first icon representing a first type of cooking vessel corresponding to the stored data and/or a first cooking cycle activated, the control device being configured to display at least a second icon representing a second type of cooking vessel and/or a second cooking cycle by activating at least one segment activated to display the first icon