FRITTIERKORB MIT BEWEGLICHEN FAECHERN

A frying basket for supporting food items, such as pies, to be cooked in an immersed position in a cooking medium. The frying basket has a back wall and two end walls defining an accessible front food loading area opposite the back wall. In the basket, on horizontal supports, are two shelves comprising solid bottom trays mounted on an open framework with divider plates between each tray to form separate compartments for each food item. An upper shelf is mounted above a lower shelf and functions to retain food items on the lower shelf and to support food items as well. Mounted above the second shelf is a retaining cover which functions to retain food items on the upper shelf. Both the upper shelf and the retaining cover are each held in that position by a latch at one of the end walls. To aid in removing food that may tend to stick to the upper shelf, the retaining cover can be unlatched and swung on its pivotal mount upward and away from the upper shelf thereby giving overhead access to food items on the upper shelf. The upper shelf can be unlatched and swung upward and away from the lower shelf. The latching mechanism can be returned to its original latching position to function as a means for holding the upper shelf away from the lower shelf to allow access to food that may tend to stick to the lower shelf.