Insulated server with cooperating pans

Abstract

The combination cooking, serving and eating unit disclosed herein employs a heat-resistive deck-like invertible body which has multi-functional rather deep protruding endless flanges on both sides thereof. These two flanges are of different area dimensions for respectively receiving and insulating, selectively usable cooking pans containing piping hot foods. The outer peripheral edges of the two flanges are smooth and preferably continuous to seal with upper portions of the cooking pans in use. The two pans constituting parts of the invention, made of metal or other heat-transmissive material in configuration and depth are made to conform in shapes to the two different pockets formed by the two said flanges with the deck portion of the body with the aforesaid spaced insulating relation. The end portions of the invertible heat resistive body are extended somewhat to provide handle portions to facilitate handling and serving of the assembled device with the piping hot dish therein. In use the server body is supported on the smooth edges of one of the said flanges and the cooking pans for the opposite flange extends upwardly and will receive the appropriate selected pan which has had the prepared food cooked thereon. Likewise when the other size pan is desired for cooking and containing food, the deck-like body is inverted and the other flange receives the other sized pan.