Abstract: Prepackaged fuel holder and fine pan for picnic cooking comprises a body portion having at least one recess therein for receiving a fuel, as for example, charcoal briquettes. A plurality of spaced wires extend across the recess to facilitate moving the fuel holder and fire pan when it becomes too hot from use to be handled. Also, a removable, flat cover is disposed over the recess to retain the fuel in the recess and permit stacking of a plurality of fuel holder and fire pans for marketing purposes. In another embodiment the fuel holder and fire pan has a perforated floor to form a false bottom and a chamber in the recess. The chamber functions to receive ash and provide combustion air upwardly around the fuel.

Abstract: A collapsible picnic cook-stove comprising, in combination with a disposable pan-shaped fuel holding member for burning fuel, a first ring-shaped support defining an opening and to which are pivotally connected three or more circumferentially spaced legs. The legs function in an extended position to support the cook-stove in spaced relation to the surface on which the cook-stove is to be used and in a collapsed position lie substantially parallel with the plane of the opening and radially inwards of said first ring-shaped support. A comestible support is pivotally connected to the first ring-shaped support to overlie in one position the opening for cooking. A second ring-shaped support is constructed and arranged to receive and support the fuel holding member in suspension below the opening of the first ring-shaped support by three or more flexible chains.