Fast cooking grill

Claim 1

A portable self-cleaning apparatus for cooking slabs of meat at an arbitrary position on a grill in a reduced time, comprising: a generally flat heat conductive weighted member having a grill facing side which has a plurality of generally equal length heat conductive spikes extending therefrom towards said grill, said spikes each being directly connected at a first end thereof to said weighted member to extend from said grill facing side of said member and having a generally pointed portion extending towards said grill at a second end thereof, the weight of said weighted member being sufficient to force said spikes through slabs of meat positioned thereunder; a heat conductive plate having a grill facing surface, being of a sufficient weight to eject said meat slabs and having a thickness less than the length of said spikes, said plate having a plurality of holes therethrough corresponding to said plurality of spikes through which said spikes slidingly fit, said plate being freely slideable along said spikes and devoid of spring coupling to said weighted member such that said plate is urged toward said grill by gravity alone independent of said weighted member and does not affect said weighted member's forcing said spikes through said slabs; and means for preventing said plate from moving a distance greater than the length of said spikes away from said weighted member while allowing said plate to assume a position with said grill facing surface adjacent the second ends of said spikes wherein said plate and said spikes contact said grill when said apparatus is placed directly on said grill, in which position said grill directly conductively heats said plate and said spikes and further heats said weighted member through said spikes such that subsequent placement of said apparatus over said slabs causes said weighted member to urge said spikes through said slabs to cook said slabs partially from within, and causes said plate to contact the surface of said slabs remote from said grill to cook said slabs partially from above said spikes being cleaned and any slabs of meat being cooked on said grill being removed from said spikes by the weight of said plate alone when said weighted member is moved away from said grill.