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A cooking apparatus having a frypot or assembly for heating a quantity of cooking oil including well center section arranged to have enclosed burner assemblies disposed on each side of the center section and forming combustion chambers for the combustion of a fuel-air mixture introduced into combustion chambers under a forced air flow system. The combustion chambers are charged with a forced flow of a fuel-air mixture under positive pressure by a blower assembly mounted on a manifold on the front of the frypot assembly. The manifold includes respective air flow control valve gates which may be selectively adjusted to balance the charging air flow to the respective burner assemblies. The frypot has opposed sidewalls and a rear wall which form parts of respective flow passages for combustion gases leaving the combustion chambers. The frypot sidewalls and rear endwall are provided with an array of flow guiding and heat exchange vanes or fins which channel at least some of the combustion gases in a multiple pass over the exterior surfaces of the frypot. The burner assemblies each include a pan shaped housing in which is disposed distributor plate for distributing a flow of a fuel-air mixture to a foraminous ceramic burner plate. Single dual cooking oil chamber frypots are provided with the heat exchanger configuration.

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