Apparatus for preparing fried chicken

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A STACKABLE COMPARTMENTED METAL BASKET PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR COOKING ORDERS OF FRIED CHICKEN, EACH ORDER CONSISTING OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PIECES OF CHICKEN, COMPRISING TWO SETS OF HORIZONTAL LATERALLY SPACED WIRES EXTENDING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO ONE ANOTHER AND LYING IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME HORIZONTAL PLANE TO FORM A RECTANGULAR GRID-LIKE BOTTOM OF THE BASKET, THE EXTREMITIES OF SAID WIRES EXTENDING UPWARDLY AT SLIGHTLY OUTWARD ANGLES FROM THE VERTAICAL TO FORM THE SIDE OF THE BASKET, A RIM MEMBER SECURED TO THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID WIRES AND FORMING THE TOP EDGE OF THE BASKET, TWO SETS OF HORIZONTAL LATERLLY SPACED RODS EXTENDING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE SIDES OF SAID RIM MEMBER AND DIVIDING THE INTERIOR OF THE BASKET INTO A PLURALITY OF COMPARTMENTS, THE ENDS OF SAID RODS BEING SECURED TO THE BOTTOM SURFACE OF SAID RIM MEMBER SO THAT THE UPPER SURFACES OF SAID RODS LIE IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE PARALLEL TO, BUT SPACED BELOW, THE PLANE OF THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID RIM MEMBER, THE PLANE OF THE UPPER SURFACE OF OF THE BASKET BEING LESS THAN THE INSIDE DIMENSIONS OF SAID RIM MEMBER SO THAT ONE BASKET MAY BE STACKED ON TOP OF ANOTHER WITH THE BOTTOM OF ONE BASKET NESTING INSIDE THE RIM MEMBER OF THE BASKET BELOW AND RESTING ON THE UPPER SURFACES OF SAID RODS, AND A PLURALTIY OF VERTICALLY EXTENDING DIVIDERS SECURED TO AND DEPENDING FROM SAID RODS AND FORMING IN COMBINATION WITH EACH OTHER AND THE SIDES OF THE BASKET THE WALLS OF SAID COMPARTMENTS, EACH OF SAID VERTICALLY EXTENDING DIVIDERS COMPRISING A GRID OF VERTICALLY AND HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING WIRES SECURED TO ONE ANOTHER AT THEIR INTERSECTIONS AND HAVING THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS OF THE VERTICALLY EXTENDING WIRES SECURED TO SAID RODS AND TO THE WIRES FORMING THE BOTTOM OF THE BASKET, RESPECTIVELY.