Apparatus for cooking foods such as stock or pasta, rice including a container which receives a liquid to be heated and a cooking strainer-basket partially submerged in the liquid for cooking within the container, the container having selectively placed interior generally cylindrical support pins, cooperating with selectively placed alternating outwardly and inwardly extending planar support sections on the strainer-basket for alternatively positioning of the basket in the liquid for cooking of the food and repositioning of the basket above the liquid to provide for straining of the food.
