Abstract: A countertop oven particularly well suited for preparing convenience foods, such as frozen dinners and hot sandwiches is provided. The oven includes at least one heating and serving tray with heat resistant handles, the tray sliding into slots in the oven side-walls with the handles on the outside so that the heating and serving tray may be removed from the oven and placed directly on a table for serving. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the oven includes two pairs of slots for receiving two heating and serving trays and includes three heating elements. This heating configuration permits cooking on the two trays in about sixty percent of the time compared to conventional countertop ovens.

Abstract: A portable cooking grill has an annular frame with parallel bars spanning it. Each of the bars is attached at each end to opposite sides of the frame. Two U-shaped extension members are attached to selected parallel bars, for sliding motion thereon, and can be moved outwardly from beneath the frame to provide adjustable supports for the grill. These extension members may be supported on indigenous structures, such as stones. The extension members may also be spring biased toward the parallel bars to promote a compact stowage mode that does not require further packaging.

Abstract: The specification discloses an over liner having canted ribs for supporting an oven rack. The parallel elongated ribs are defined by converging canted upper and lower surfaces extending from the side walls of the oven liner into the oven cavity. A series of nodes are spaced along the upper surface of each rib to support an oven rack. A shoe protrudes from the lower surface of the ribs near the forward end of the oven cavity, the shoe engaging a boss formed on guide rails on two sides of the oven rack to prevent the rack from being completely withdrawn from the oven. The oven rack is a mesh formed of parallel bar members having guide rails disposed perpendicular to the plane of the mesh along two sides thereof. Supporting surfaces are provided at an angle to the rails so that the rack may be slidably supported at an angle to the horizontal by the nodes formed on the upper surface of the ribs.