may also provide additional cooling for outer enclosure 604 referring to fig2 as well as other figures herein cooking vessel 606 is contoured to efficiently utilize cooking oil when cooking articles including fowl as well as other articles cooking vessel 606 is also configured to help minimize countertop space usage to achieve these goals cooking vessel 606 39 s midriff tapers inward such that its girth 680 measured 20 down from its upper rim 676 is shown as being 110 of its girth 682 measured 20 up from its base 678 this proportional relationship most advantageously accomplishes its goals with ratios above 105 to help these goals still further cooking vessel 606 is shown as having a height 684 which is roughly 145 of its width 686 this proportional relationship most advantageously accomplishes its goals with ratios above 130 utilization of displacement cooking chamber 636 where appropriate further helps to achieve the above goals of minimal countertop space utilization and reduced cooking oil usage cooking vessel 606 is generally tubular with an integral bottom it 39 s tubular cross section may be of any suitable configuration including polygon triangular square diamond pentagonal hexagonal etc irregular polygon regular or irregular polygonal with rounded corners regularly curved such as circular as shown elliptical etc any combination of the above for the top middle and or lower portions of cooking vessel 606 or any other suitable configuration embodiment 601 is most advantageously limited to.