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A cooking apparatus includes a container, a spigot, a lid, and a food support. The container has a bottom surface and a side wall that extends upwardly from the bottom surface to a top edge of the side wall. The spigot is attached to the container side wall and has a valve member that is selectively positionable between opened and closed positions. The spigot valve member allows liquid contents of the container to drain from the container when in the opened position, and prevents the contents from draining out of the container when in the closed position. The food support is comprised of a perforated horizontal member with a perforated side wall extending upwardly from the horizontal member. A plurality of vertical members spaced around the periphery of the horizontal member extend upwardly from the horizontal member. The food support is dimensioned to fit within the interior of the container and some of the vertical members have top ends with integral support connectors that are adapted to engage with the side wall top edge to suspend the food support in a spaced relation from the container bottom surface. The lid has a handle and lid connectors that are complementary to and selectively connectable to the support connectors. The lid connectors can selectively connect with the food support and allow the food support to be lifted by the lid and lowered into or removed from the container. The lid shields the user from the hot contents of the container when the food support is lowered into or removed from the container. The lid top and bottom surfaces slant downwardly as the lid top and bottom surfaces extends inwardly from the lid peripheral edge toward the center of the lid. The slanting forms a central depression in the lid which promotes liquid accumulated on the lid bottom surface to drip from the apex of the central depression.
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