Gizmodo: oven

Easy Baking with a 100-Watt Light Bulb Takes Me Back

Joanna Stern — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:00:00 EDT

The combination of my Peter Pan complex and our weeklong celebration of food meant one thing: Calling in an Easy Bake Oven. Turns out, no matter how old you are, cooking with a light bulb is (sorta) fun. [Hasbro]

Cellphone Calls Fire Up This Guy's Maytag Oven

Sean Fallon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:20:00 EDT

Surely you have heard rumors about cellphones wreaking havoc around electronics and flammables, but this guy claims that calls to his Sony Ericsson PDA (P910 perhaps?) light up his Maytag Magic Chef oven—and he has video to prove it.

When Andrei Melnikov's Sony Ericsson PDA is within about two feet of the stove, an incoming call will make the Maytag Magic Chef stove beep, and the digital display will light up, indicating that the broiler is on high.

Open it up and you'll see the gas flames streaming out of the broiler's burners as it begins cooking anything inside it in 500-plus degree heat.

A Maytag repairman acknowledged the problem and told Melnikov that he needed to order "a suppressor" that would take 7-10 days to arrive. He claims that that this is the first time Maytag has heard of the issue and they are currently looking into it. It's also the first time Melnikov has dealt with it in the years that his family has owned the stove and the phone. Still, a glitch like this is pretty damned unsettling. [1010 WIns via MyFoxDC via Fark]

Oven Re-Constructed Flips an Oven Up On Your Cooktop

Adam Frucci — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:40:00 EDT

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.This clever oven concept is flat, creating a closed-in space for baking by folding up sections of its surface.

The Oven Re-Constructed works as a normal cooktop, but when you want to back something, you can fold up its sections to create an oven sitting right on top of the surface. How exactly it works is not clear thanks to the standard vagaries of concept designs, but it's certainly an interesting take on an appliance that hasn't seen much innovation in a while.[a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/06/24/the-oven-re-constructed/">Yanko Design via Ubergizmo]

Retromodo: Electrochef All-In-One Kitchen Circa 1920

Sean Fallon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:20:00 EDT

Designing for small spaces certainly isn't new—take this Electrochef all-in-one kitchen from 1920. It featured an adjustable height oven, four-burner stove and a small storage space hidden below. [Dornob]

Siemens Oven Moves Your Roast Like a Death Star Hangar Lift

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:30:00 EDT

The Siemens HB 78P570 oven looks like any other oven until you notice that it has no door, which is precisely when it starts to open automatically from its bottom: The glossy black food platform slides down mechanically until it is at the same level as your kitchen top. Sounds a bit crazy, but it's extremely convenient to put your suckling pig stuffed with chicken wings, then easily paint it with BBQ honey sauce until it's done. [More IFA 2008 Coverage]

Range Kitchen Concept, for Mobile Cooking at Home

Kit Eaton — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:56:15 EDT

Ok, tackling the standard kitchen design for improved eco-friendliness or chicness makes sense, but for portability, like this Whirlpool Range concept? Nope... don't see it. I mean designer Weston Boege has made it look all very nice, with those curvaceous lines and wooden accents. And his design squeezes in a small oven and stove-top gas burners, along with track-style wheels for mobility. But I'm not sure I'd ever want to trundle one gas bottle-laden component about the house so that I could cook near the dining table or outdoors. Surely that's what barbecues and zipping out to a Japanese restaurant for some at-table theatre cooking is all about? [Born Rich]

This Eco-Friendly Oven Stinks (Because It Runs On Garbage)

Benny Goldman — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:58:01 EDT

In the Kenyan slum of Kibera, outside of Nairobi, an oven fueled by garbage is now in testing. At its heart is a superheated steel plate that vaporizes drops of water. The oxygen released burns discarded sump oil from vehicles, reaching even higher temperatures up to 930° Fahrenheit. Garbage is then used to maintain the heat.

Residents can use the oven to cook hot meals or make hot water for washing. The system's added benefit is that it reduces waste in the area, a problem that has gotten so bad that it is beginning to destroy Kenya's plains.

Recognized as the first of its kind, the concept has caught on quickly, and plans for 20 more are already in the works. As people are increasingly drawn to urban areas, excess waste is rapidly becoming a critical problem. There are still some obvious kinks to be worked out, such as containing the fumes from the burning garbage.

The oven was built with the help of a $10,000 grant from the United Nations Environment Programme. Advocates of the oven hope that the technology works well enough to be employed in large cities everywhere. [Christian Science Monitor via Treehugger]

Countertop Pizza Oven

Jason Chen — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:10:12 EDT

If your life's dream is to cook a pizza in something that only slightly resembles a pizza oven, this Da Gennaro is your ticket to paradise. The oven's small enough to fit onto a counter, but big enough that it takes up a whole lot of your kitchen space. As for how well its programmable cooking time and heat insulation cooks your pizza, that's a question for someone who's eaten a pie made from its loins. [Ariete via Appliancist]

TurboChef Speedcook Oven Ruins Dinner 15 Times Faster

Charlie White — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:29:37 EDT

Besides looking rather bad-ass, this TurboChef Speedcook oven can allegedly cook your culinary masterpieces 15 times faster than an ordinary oven. It works with similar principles to convection ovens, except instead of simply moving air around the inside, the Airspeed Technology apparently blasts your roast from the top and the bottom. It's also aided by a special stirring mechanism that make sure that blast of hot air is evenly distributed.

At the same time, there's what the company calls "precision microwaves" that add their own special brand of agitation to the festivities, stirring up those atoms while keeping the moisture and flavor inside the food. There's a lot of hot air moving around here, and we're not sure all of it is inside that oven, either. If you buy into all this, get out your $7,900. – Charlie White

Product Page TurboChef, via Born Rich]

Turbochef Speedcook Oven: Air and Waves Do a 12-Pound Turkey in 45 Minutes

Brian Lam — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:20:02 EST

The international builder's show just went down, and among the home automation madness, it was impossible to miss this oven's claim that it can cook a 12-pound bird in 45 minutes. That's 3 hours faster than a standard oven. They say it uses Airspeed technology, but from the diagram and flash animations, I'd say it runs a bunch of hot air over your food, like a hair dryer, to make stuff cook faster. Hmm...microwaved, hairdryed bird?

Very fancy. For me, the end game is this: I'm not sure I'd know how to adopt standard recipes to this new fangled cook-tech. Honestly, I'd settle for a standard unit that emails me when my food starts to smoke, inevitably, like a meteorite. –Brian Lam

TurboChef [Marketwatch]

TMIO Intelligent Oven: Cook via Internet or Cellphone/PDA

www.gizmodo.com — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:52:34 EST

Dinner can be ready the second you walk in the door without the need for one of those pesky spouses with the TMIO Intelligent Oven. This "smart" oven has both cooking and refrigeration elements and can be controlled remotely via the internet, cell phone or PDA. Of course, this still requires that you prepare your meal beforehand and place it in the refrigerated chamber until ready to cook.

Personally, we'll be impressed when the oven is intelligent enough to go grocery shopping, chop, prepare, cook and clean for us via cellphone, but this is one step in the right direction. Super geeky bonus—these ovens also use NASA-based command and control engineering in addition to NASA-based ceramic insulation. –Dana Bushman

TMIO Intelligent Oven [Appliancist]

Sharp AX-700S Superheated Steam Oven

Charlie White — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:28:21 EST

Next time you have to suffer through another one of those bone-dry turkey dinners at Aunt Mabel's, you'll wish she had a Sharp AX-700S Superheated Steam Oven. The company is touting the health benefits of food prepared using steam cooking. The AX-700S combines conventional heat with steam that's been superheated to 550 F, condensing and melting away the fat in meat and poultry while keeping the taste and moisture inside. Plus, when you want to bake or heat up things that should be crispy, it can also function as a conventional oven. Available now, the only downside to this great-sounding concept is the price: $1,400.

Superheated Steam Oven [Pop Gadget]

Sharp AX-700S Superheated Steam Oven on sale for $1199.99 [Amazon]