Broiling and roasting apparatus

Claim 1

A COOKING APPARATUS FOR PRECOOKING FOOD ITEMS UNDER MOIST-ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AND FINAL COOKING UNDER DRY-ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS, COMPRISING A CYLINDRICALLY SHAPED BODY OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM INTERNAL DIMENSION ALONG ITS ELONGATED AXIS, LEGS OF CHANNEL SHAPE IN CROSS-SECTION POSITIONED WITHIN AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE LOWER END OF THE BODY AND ATTACHED TO THE WALL OF THE BODY WITH THE FLANGES OF THE CHANNELS EXTENDING RADIALLY INWARDLY OF THE BODY, TO SUPPORT THE BODY IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION WITH THE LOWER END OF THE BODY SPACED ABOVE THE GROUND, AT LEAST TWO VERTICALLY SPACED SETS OF ANGLE-SHAPED SUPPORT ELEMENTS IN THE BODY ABOVE THE LEGS THE ELEMENTS OF EACH SET BEING PERIPHERALLY SPACED WITH FLANGES THEREOF EXTENDING RADIALLY INWADLY OF THE BODY IN A COMMON HORIZONTAL PLANE, A FUEL SUPPORT ADAPTED TO BE REMOVABLY DISPOSED IN THE BODY ON ANY OF THE UPPER FLANGES OF THE LEGS AND THE ANGLE-SHAPED SUPPORT ELEMENTS IN INWARDLY SPACED RELATION TO THE INTERNAL SURFACE OF THE BODY TO PROVIDE SPACE BETWEEN THE BODY AND FUEL SUPPORT THROUGH WHICH AIR MAY FLOW UPWARDLY INTO THE BODY, A RECEPTACLE FOR WATER ADAPTED TO BE REMOVABLY DISPOSED IN THE BODY ON THE INWARDLY EXTENDING FLANGES OF ANY OF THE ANGLE-SHAPED SUPPORT ELEMENTS ABOVE THE FUEL SUPPORT IN INWARDLY SPACED RELATION TO THE INTERNAL SURFACE OF THE BODY TO PROVIDE SPACE BETWEEN THE RECEPTACLE AND BODY THROUGH WHICH AIR MAY FLOW UPWARDLY IN THE BODY ABOUT THE RECEPTACLE, A GRID ADAPTED TO BE REMOVABLY DISPOSED IN THE BODY ON THE INWARDLY EXTENDING FLANGES OF ANY OF THE ANGLESHAPED SUPPORT ELEMENTS NOT SUPPORTING THE FUEL SUPPORT AND THE RECEPTACLE, AND SAID RECEPTACLE EFFECTIVELY ISOLATING THE FUEL SUPPORT FROM SAID GRID THEREBY PREVENTING FLAMES FROM FLAMING UP AGAINST SAID GRID, A COVER REMOVABLY POSITIONED OVER THE UPPER END OF THE BODY TO CLOSE THE SAME, SAID BODY HAVING AN OPENING THROUGH WHICH AIR MAY FLOW OUT OF THE BODY WHEN THE UPPER END IS CLOSED, SAID RECEPTACLE BEING REMOVABLE WHEN THE FOOD ITEMS HAVE BEEN PRECOOKED UNDER MOIST-ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS TO ALLOW THE RECEPTACLE TO BE REMOVED AND TO ALLOW THE GRID AND THE FUEL SUPPORT TO BE REPOSITIONED ON ANY OF THE FLANGES OF THE LEGS AND ANGLE-SHAPED SUPPORT ELEMENTS FOR FINAL COOKING UNDER DRY-ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS.