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A deep fat food cooker has vat for cooking oil, a pre-warmer container on the outside of the vat for cooking oil to be pre-warmed before use in the cooker, and a thermal extracter to extract heat from heated oil in the vat and to transfer the extracted heat to oil in the container; the container is

A deep fat food cooker has vat for cooking oil, a pre-warmer container on the outside of the vat for cooking oil to be pre-warmed before use in the cooker, and a thermal extracter to extract heat from heated oil in the vat and to transfer the extracted heat to oil in the container; the container is deep drawn thermally conductive aluminum and has an elongate side in heat exchange relationship with a side wall of the vat; the thermal extractor is thermally conductive aluminum sheet and has a dip member in the heated oil, a cradle to support the container on the outside of the vat, and an upright wall between the container and the vat outside wall to also transfer heat through the wall; oil in the container receives heat from the extractor and through the vat wall and upright wall, all of the heat is taken from the previously heated oil in the vat. A method of pre-warming cooking oil includes the steps of heating oil in the vat, extracting heat from the heated oil, and transferring the extracted heat into a discrete exterior oil warming container and the oil therein.

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A cooking fat pre-warmer for a deep fat food cooker having upright side walls forming a central hot cooking oil vat having cooking oil therein, comprising: (a) a thermally conductive and discrete metal pre-warmer container for cooking fat; and (b) an elongate thermally conductive metal container sup

A cooking fat pre-warmer for a deep fat food cooker having upright side walls forming a central hot cooking oil vat having cooking oil therein, comprising: (a) a thermally conductive and discrete metal pre-warmer container for cooking fat; and (b) an elongate thermally conductive metal container support for the container, said support being structurally discrete and separable from the container and having; (1) a cradle having a flat upright facing surface upon which said container is removably supportable, with a bottom of the container being in direct and heat exchange contact with said cradle, (2) an upright support wall extending upward from an inner side of the cradle, said upright wall being integral with said cradle and having a height greater than a height of said container, (3) a cap integral with the upright support wall and the cradle and extending transversely from a top of the wall and in a direction away from said cradle, (4) biasing means on the cradle and spaced transversely outward from the upright wall for engaging and biasing the fat container against said upright wall, and (5) a downward extending thermally conductive dip member extending downward from the cap and being extendable into the vat and being submersible in said cooking oil in the cooker vat, said dip member being structurally and thermally integral with said cap and said upright wall, said dip member being spaced transversely from said upright wall and being in thermal communication with said container through said cap, upright wall and cradle for extracting heat directly from the hot oil in the vat and for conducting the extracted heat to oil in the container via the cap, upright wall, cradle and lastly through the container, with (c) said container being removable with warm oil therein from said container support while said container support remains upon the food cooker with the dip member in the vat and in hot oil, and with said container support resting upon a side wall of the cooker.