Abstract: A food cooking appliance for cooking a food product disposed on a substrate is disclosed. The food cooking appliance comprises a gas burner disposed below the substrate. The gas burner includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced flame openings and a radiant disposed above and proximate to the spaced flame openings. Heat generated by flames emanating from the spaced flame openings heats the radiant, causing the radiant to radiate heat, to increase the overall heat transferred to the substrate by the burner.