Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing a liquid basting sauce includes an elongated sauce delivery tube having multiple spray nozzles suspended in spaced relationship along the length of the tube. The sauce delivery tube is mounted on the barbecue grill in a position above the food being cooked or, alternatively, intermediately between the food and the firebox. Connected to one end of the delivery tube is a pressurized sauce supply bottle which contains the selected basting sauce. A timer-controlled injection valve connects the sauce supply bottle to the delivery tube, and upon activation of the valve by the selected timer device, sauce is injected under pressure into the tube and dispensed through the spray nozzles.

Abstract: A vessel according to the invention is intended for cooking food and comprises a body 1 and a lid 2 provided with a cavity 4 to receive water (A). The cavity is disposed in annular form around an elevated portion 5. The internal surface 6 of the lid 2 is substantially arch-shaped, which shape tends to engage the internal walls 7 of the body 1. Thus, the vapor condenses in the center and the droplets flow on the surface 6 so as to fall only on the periphery or flow along the walls 7 so that they do not fall directly on the food B.

Abstract: A highly compact oven for preparing barbecued foods on a commercial basis includes a cabinet having a vertical partition wall that divides its interior into an oven chamber and an equipment compartment, and a door which closes the front of the oven chamber. In addition, the oven has a rotisserie for supporting foods in the upper portion of the oven chamber, and this rotisserie is turned by a motor in the equipment compartment. A firebox in which wood is burned is located in the lower portion of the oven chamber to provide the heat required for cooking the food and the smoke for imparting the barbecue flavor to that food. Food on the rotisserie is shielded from the firebox by a baffle wall which extends across the oven chamber, yet has its margins spaced from the back wall and door, so that heated air and smoke circulate freely between the region of the firebox and the region of the rotisserie.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial cooking machine having an endless conveyor passing through both a preheat region and a cooking region with a pair of accesses to the conveyor. These accesses separate the preheat from the cooking region and enable loading and unloading of food onto the conveyor between the two regions. The conveyor is reversible in direction of travel so that the food loaded at the first access can be moved in either one of two directions. Firstly it is movable through the preheat region past the second access to the cooking region and back to the first access and secondly when the conveyor is reversed the food which is loaded on the conveyor at the first access is movable directly through the cooking region to the second access which is positioned to permit unloading of the food without passing through the preheat region.

Abstract: A coffee maker includes a housing provided with a hinged cover at its top. An arcuate flange adjacent the hinge side of the cover extends downwardly from the inner surface of the cover in the closed position of the cover; and a flange extends radially inwardly and obliquely downwardly from the lower edge of the arcuate flange to form a receptacle. When the cover is moved into its opened position, condensation water on the inner surface of the cover flows into the receptacle. When the cover is returned to its closed position, such condensation water flows into the housing.

Abstract: A food serving tray and heater shelf arrangement includes a rack having sets of cantilevered supports with a heater element mounted to each pair of supports and with a food serving tray on each heater element straddling its supports.

Abstract: An oven having dual-rotating mechanism whereby food-holding elements are arranged to be conveyed about the periphery of the inner housing of the oven, at which time the food-holding elements are individually rotated about their own axes, causing a dual-rotisserie action. The opposite ends of the food-holding elements are removably attached to a chain which is driven by a plurality of planetary gear assemblies driven by a motor, the food-holding elements being individually rotated by means of a stationary chain which is engaged to a sprocket attached to the food-holding elements assembly. Thus, a low-temperature cooking process can be employed therewith.