Gas grill compatible pizza oven

Abstract

A cooking oven is configured for use with a separate heat source such as a gas grill having one or more burners. The oven includes a housing defining an interior cooking area. A grill engaging element extends from the housing for supporting the housing on the grill over the heat source. The grill engaging element defines a passage leading to an opening in a bottom of the housing, permitting heated air to flow from the heat source into the interior of the oven. The oven has a door providing access to the interior cooking area, as well as a vent leading from a top of the housing. The cooking oven is configured to be located over burners of the grill for cooking food items.

Description

RELATED APPLICATION DATA [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 741,537, filed Dec. 19, 2003.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to a method of constructing a barbeque grill and various barbeque grill features, including a grill compatible pizza oven. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Outdoor barbeque grill units are very popular and produced in a variety of configurations. These units include the well known brickette accepting type grill and gas or propane powered units. [0004] Commonly, these grill units are constructed to be self contained, small and portable. The unit includes a stand which supports a grill housing, such as a metal casing. The housing, in turn, houses one or more burners and supporting racks. Generally, the housing includes a lid which may be opened to provide access to the interior, including the racks. The lid may be closed during cooking to retain the heat in the housing. Often, these grill u...

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Benefits of technology

[0019] In one embodiment, the size of each modular unit is selected so that the unit is easily transported and will pass through a door. At the desired location, the modular units are connected. A coating, such as stucco or tile, play be applied to the coating or covering upon the frames of the unit to finish the unit.

[0025] The handle of the invention has the advantage that it is very durable and yet dissipates heat efficiently, permitting the handle to be touched even when the grill lid is extremely hot.

[0027] The burner effectively distributes gas evenly throughout the burner conduit, whereby the heat generated along the entire burner is generally equal.

[0032] In use, the warming tray is positioned inside of a grill. The lip abuts a grill lid, the lip preventing food items from being pushed or rolling off of the warming tray at the rear of the grill.

[0042] In one embodiment, a grate is located over the opening in the bottom of the housing. In addition, in a preferred embodiment, stones or other heat sink elements are associated with the housing. The grate and heat sink elements aid in maintaining an even and constant temperature within the oven.

Problems solved by technology

This, of course, increases the size and complexity of the unit.

This makes the units difficult to move and more difficult to construct.

There are several problems with this approach.

This does not allow a homeowner to request a “custom” unit having either specific features or a specific configuration or size.

Second, various constraints limits the size of these units.

In particular, these units can not be very large because they must be transported to the homeowner and installed at their home.

This has the significant disadvantage that each unit must be custom created, greatly increasing the time and cost of the unit as compared to where the unit is pre-constructed only in a few configurations.

In addition, whether of the pre-constructed or custom-constructed configuration, these structures all suffer from a number of drawbacks.

Besides the supporting island or cabinet structure these types of grill, present grills suffer from a number of other problems.

One problem relates to grill handles.

Because the lid is part of the grill housing, it becomes very hot during grill use.

A problem with such handles, however, is that if exposed to the weather, as is common for outdoor grills, the handle will weather and deteriorate.

However, these handles often become too hot to touch, especially with newer grills having multiple burners and higher heat.

Another problem relates to grill burners.

As grills and their associated burners have become larger, this goal has not been met with current burner configurations.

Generally, the length of these burners is such that the gas pressure at areas close to the source is much higher than areas remote from the source, causing the generation of much higher flame and heat in one area than the other.

These trays are often difficult to use.

Among other things, food often gets pushed or rolls off of these trays.

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