Abstract: A pot lid adaptable to a cookpot for boiling down foods such as fish, meat and the like. The pot lid has a plate having a contour adaptable to the cookpot, and a cover detachably installed on an upper surface of the plate. The plate has a threaded hole at its center, openings for releasing steam and grooves which extend to the circumferential end of the plate. The cover has a diameter large enough to close the openings and a rod projecting downwardly. The rod has a threaded groove at its end portion with an ungrooved portion being left above the threaded groove. The threaded groove is engageable with the threaded hole of the plate. When in use, the ungrooved portion of the rod is slidably held within the threaded hole of the plate to permit a heated broth of the boiled foods to discharge from at least the openings.

Abstract: This invention provides a lid for a cooking pan having a central knob and two lid portions. The lid portions can be adjusted between a spaced-apart condition and a juxtaposed or surface-contact position. Each lid portion has apertures therethrough, but the apertures are not in alignment as viewed vertically. Thus, when the lid members are separated there are provided vent passages for cooking fumes, etc. to escape from a pan or pot being covered by the lid. Conversely, when the lid members are juxtaposed in surface-contact, the vent passages are closed, and escape of cooking fumes is restrained.

Abstract: A lid for a cooking utensil wherein a substantially flat central section has a rim thereabout for engagement with the cooking utensil. Depending from the central section is a recessed plate characterized by a plurality of venting holes therein. A sliding cover is presented over the recessed plate for opening or closing the venting holes and may be totally removed therefrom for cleaning purposes. A further venting hole is presented about the rim periphery to vent the cooking utensil independently of the recessed plate. A dome-shaped cover may be incorporated to provide a steam or heat chamber above the lid by capturing steam escaping through the holes in the recessed plate. Venting holes may also be provided in the dome-shaped cover to provide for steam escapement so as to limit the moisture condensation within the cover.

Abstract: A cooking utensil, such as a frying pan for reducing splattering comprises an open top base member having a bottom and an upstanding sidewall integrally formed therewith. The sidewall is provided with a plurality of apertures disposed therearound. A lid which seatingly engages the base member is provided with a central vent.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a variable vent cover for cooking vessels and comprises a bottom cover having an opening therethrough and a pair of upstanding outwardly divergent flanges diametrically opposed and spaced about the periphery thereof which cooperates with downwardly convergent flanges diametrically opposed and spaced about the periphery of a top cover with a minimum of clearance between the flanges on the bottom and top covers so that they can be rotated horizontally relative to one another to vary the vent opening between the flanges to communicate the opening in the bottom cover with atmosphere and which will assure that both covers will interlock to be vertically lifted simultaneously for placement onto or removal from a cooking vessel.