Abstract: The apparatus for cooking of food items, in particular, pasta, dehydrated vegetables or the like, comprises a hot water generator, a cooking chamber combined with it, a food inlet entering the cooking chamber and a separating chamber following the cooking chamber through an outlet. The separating chamber is located under the cooking chamber, so that the cooked food items drop into the separating chamber following the completion of the cooking process. The cooking chamber, the hot water generator connected with it and the separating chamber form a coherent, compact unit.