Abstract: A ceramic meat cooker is inserted into a center portion of a piece of meat. The cooker is shaped to hold the meat in an upright vertical alignment above the rack of an oven or above a grill. While the heating element cooks the outside of the meat, the cooker cooks the inside of the meat providing more evenly cooked foods in a shorter amount of time. The meat cooker has a conical shape that holds the meat above a cooking surface. The meat in turn does not soak in saturated fat extruded from the meat during cooking providing cooked meat containing less fat. A flared base at the bottom end of the ceramic cooker supports the cooker and the meat in an vertical upright position eliminating the need for special spit attachments above the cooking system.