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1. A cooking lid for preventing liquids from boiling over, said lid comprising:
a) a round or polygonal central passage opening disposed at a center of said lid; b) a plurality of passage openings uniformly distributed around said central passage opening; and c) a closure element comprising:
i) a central region, wherein said closure element is disposed so as to rotate about an axis of rotation extending through the center of the lid and perpendicular to said central region of said closure element; andii) a plurality of closure parts extending radially outwardly from said central region and uniformly distributed around said central region, each of said plurality of closure parts separated from each adjacent closure part by an associated gap of a plurality of gaps extending radially outwardly from said central region; wherein said closure element is movable between a first position wherein each of said plurality of closure parts is aligned with an associated passage opening of said plurality of passage openings and a second position wherein each of said plurality of closure parts is circumferentially offset from an associated passage opening of said plurality of passage openings and each of said plurality of gaps is aligned with an associated passage opening of said plurality of passage openings for exposing said passage openings; wherein said lid is configured in a bowl shape; and wherein said closure parts have a horizontal region that makes a transition into a region that faces downward, at a slant, which region is followed by a region that faces upward, which region makes a transition into an outer region of the bowl-shaped lid. |
