Disclosed is a method and apparatus regarding gaseous fueled fired outdoor cooking or frying devices such as deep fat fryers. More particularly, various embodiments relate to an improved method and apparatus that relates to an outdoor cooking or frying apparatus having a pivoting basket and lit configuration allowing the discharge of large food items such as a full sized turkey onto the lid for preparation immediately before serving the large food item. The lid has cooking, receiving and preparation configurations. The basket has cooking, draining and discharging configurations.

A chicken wing cutter is provides a safe and sanitary way to cut chicken wings and fry them. The chicken wings cutter is a device that holds chicken wings in place and cut them without having to use a knife. It provides safety measure to cut chicken wings without the use of knives or machinery having to hold and touch the chicken. This will avoid contamination or carrying of such bacteria caused while handling poultry and avoid spills from frying. The device allows you to place the chicken in the cradles. Once secure in the cradles, the chicken cutter cut the chicken in precise pieces in preparation for cooking chicken wings in a fryer. The device has blades within the lid that retracts and closed and oval locked is secure the chicken is ready to cut then after placed on cradle for frying.

An outdoor food frying apparatus includes a frame having a pot support, a burner element supported upon the frame, and a pot that removably fits the frame. The pot has end walls, a rear wall, a front edge portion, and a bottom wall. A basket is pivotally attached to the pot rear wall with one or more hinges. The basket is correspondingly sized and shaped to fit the pot interior. The basket is movable about the hinge between cooking and food discharge positions. The lid is pivotally attached to the pot. The lid is movable between a cooking position wherein the lid covers the pot upper opening and food discharge position wherein the lid rotates at least 180 degrees from said cooking position, forming a tray for receiving food discharged from the basket. A steamer plate can optionally be connected to the basket at the basket rim and/or basket side walls.

An apparatus for cooking food under atmospheric or pressure environment or in a basket while immersed in a batch of cooking liquid. The cooking vessel is controllably heated and the level of the cooking liquid is controlled by at least one capacitor in contact electrical contact with a capacitor sensor in fluid communication with the cooking liquid and a controller for controlling the temperature and amount of cooking liquid in the cooking vessel at various stages of the cooking process.

A fryer apparatus includes a selectively closeable frypot to alternate a mechanism of operation between an open frying platform and a pressure frying platform. The selectively closeable frypot includes a cover with a locking mechanism disposed within the cover that is actuated by rotation of a handle such that the footprint of the selectively closeable frypot may be sized comparable with a typical open frypot to accommodate space constraints of limited service restaurants. The fryer apparatus may also include a pressure assist feature so that the selectively closeable frypot efficiently reaches a desired pressure for smaller batches of food product when used as a pressure frying platform.

Mobile fryer systems, cooking vessels, heated oil reservoirs, and methods of operating same to conduct cooking cycles are disclosed. An example mobile fryer system includes one or more cooking vessels configured to cook one or more food items via a cooking cycle, each of the one or more cooking vessels comprising a locking lid; a heated oil reservoir defining an enclosure, the enclosure comprising cooking oil; and one or more conduits fluidly connecting the heated oil reservoir to each of the one or more cooking vessels.

A cooking system providing eight different cooking methods through one cooking device is provided. The cooking device has a plurality of walls forming an enclosure space therein, wherein the enclosure space is accessible by an opening. The lower portion of the cooking device has adjustable heating elements for enabling the enclosure space to be used as a boiler pot, steamer pot or low heat simmer stew pot. The enclosure space is also adapted to removably, separately and operably retain a charcoal liner, a deep fryer basket, or a Cajun microwave, thereby embodying a method for providing at least eight different cooking methods through the cooking device.

An outdoor food frying apparatus includes a frame having a pot support, a burner element supported upon the frame, and a pot that removably fits the frame. The pot has end walls, a rear wall, a front edge portion, and a bottom wall that gradually increases in curvature from said rear wall to said front edge portion. A basket is pivotally attached to the pot rear wall with one or more hinges. The basket is correspondingly sized and shaped to fit the pot interior. The basket is movable about the hinge between cooking and food discharge positions. The lid is pivotally attached to the pot. The lid is movable between a cooking position wherein the lid covers the pot upper opening and food discharge position wherein the lid rotates at least 180 degrees from said cooking position, forming a tray for receiving food discharged from the basket.

A cooking pot for pressure cooking or frying is disclosed, comprising a housing 122 accommodating a pan 112 to hold food items to be cooked, and one or more heating devices to heat the pan. A lid 102 covers the top side of the housing 122 and creates an enclosure 124 above the pan 112. The one or more heating devices include a microwaves generating device 202 located remote from the airtight enclosure 124. A microwave guide 210 is provided to transfer microwaves generated by the remotely located microwaves generating device 202 to the pan 112. A window 110 is provided for passage of the microwaves to the pan 112, and includes a microwave transparent material, which can withstand pressure in the enclosure 124 when the cooking pot is configured for pressure cooking. A flame stove 204 is provided below the pan 112 for direct heating of the pan 112.

Systems, methods and apparatuses for making fryers and deep-fryers safer and/or more energy efficient are disclosed. Different embodiments generally comprise a cover, having a number of flaps, doors or plates that open upwardly or downwardly. Flaps/doors may be solid, perforated or the like. The cover can be maintained in a suitably rigid closed locked position, for example, by a locking mechanism, preventing the basket(s), body parts, or other items from unintentionally being placed in the fryer. In such embodiments, the cover also prevents the loss of heat from the oil. In various embodiments, the cover and/or the door may be maintained in a closed position, though not necessarily locked, preventing heat loss from the oil. In such embodiments, the cover may be vented. In various embodiments, the cover and/or the door may include an attachable or an integrated fire extinguishing mechanism.