Abstract: Automatic apparatus for the continuous cooking of individual food portions. The apparatus contains suspended baskets into which the food is placed, and the baskets are guided on a horizontal wheel. The wheel is rotated such that the baskets are moved through a container of boiling liquid to cook the food. After the baskets are withdrawn, the food is emptied onto plates on another rotating wheel contained at a lower level than the first horizontal wheel. Various ways of emptying the containers are taught including turning the containers over, and constructing the containers with bottoms that slide so as to allow the food to fall onto the plate. In a further embodiment, a lower guide ramp is used to secure the bottom of the containers. The ramp is discontinuous at the place where the food is to be emptied onto the plates.