Reversible cooking grate
View Patent ↗A multi-purpose cooking grate has a planar perforated grid with a flat grilling side and a pizza-cooking side. The pizza-cooking side includes features to support a pizza-cooking stone such that a vertical distance is maintained there-between, and locators to engage the periphery of the stone so that it is horizontally restrained.
1. A pizza cooking grate comprising:
a planar grid with perforations therethrough and adapted to be oriented horizontally and comprising;
a first plurality of supports adapted to engage a bottom surface of a pizza cooking element resting there-atop such that a vertical distance is maintained between the bottom surface and the grid, and a second plurality of locators, taller than the supports and adapted to engage a peripheral outer shape of the pizza cooking element such that the pizza cooking element is horizontally restrained;
wherein the pizza cooking element is one of a pizza pan and a pizza stone;
wherein the grid is comprised of ribs having open spaces therebetween to comprise the perforations and; wherein the grid is cast metal and the supports and locators are cast integrally with the ribs.
2. The pizza cooking grate of claim 1 wherein the vertical distance is an air space.
3. The pizza cooking grate of claim 2 wherein the air space is adapted to enable air circulation between the bottom surface and the grid.
4. The pizza cooking grate of claim 3 wherein the peripheral outer shape is a circle.
5. The pizza cooking grate of claim 4 wherein the locators are disposed around and outboard of the circle.
6. The pizza cooking grate of claim 5 wherein the supports are disposed inboard of the circle.
7. The pizza cooking grate of claim 6 wherein the grid, supports, and locators are integrally cast.
8. A multi-purpose cooking grate comprising:
a planar perforated grid having a flat grilling side and a pizza-cooking side, and adapted to be oriented horizontally with the flat grilling side up for grilling and barbequing, and to be oriented horizontally with the pizza-cooking side up for pizza cooking with a pizza-cooking element resting there-atop; wherein
the pizza side comprises a first plurality of supports adapted to engage a bottom surface of the pizza cooking element such that a vertical distance is maintained between the bottom surface and the grid, and a second plurality of locators, taller than the support and adapted to engage a peripheral outer shape of the pizza cooking element such that the pizza cooking element is horizontally restrained;
wherein the pizza cooking element is one of a pizza pan and a pizza stone;
wherein the grid is comprised of ribs having open spaces therebetween to comprise the perforations and;
wherein the grid is cast metal and the supports and locators are cast integrally with the ribs.
9. The multi-purpose cooking grate of claim 8 wherein the vertical distance is an air space.
10. The multi-purpose cooking grate of claim 9 wherein the air space is adapted to enable air circulation between the bottom surface and the grid.
11. The multi-purpose cooking grate of claim 10 wherein the peripheral outer shape is a circle.
12. The multi-purpose cooking grate of claim 11 wherein the locators are disposed around and outboard of the circle.
13. The multi-purpose cooking grate of claim 12 wherein the supports are disposed inboard of the circle.