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A box that turns raw ingredients into dinner or smoke detectors into music.

means An enclosed chamber that cooks, bakes, or heats food (or anything else) by surrounding it with sustained dry heat.

from From Old English 'ofen,' a baking chamber, going back to a Proto-Germanic root (compare German 'Ofen,' a stove or furnace) and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European word for a cooking pot or vessel. So long before it was a steel box with dials, it was simply the thing you put on the fire to bake — a name almost as old as bread itself.

self-clean
Cleaning mode hits 900°F, hotter than pizza ovens
ancient roots
Mesopotamians baked in clay ovens 5,000 years ago
thermal lag
Preheat lights lie; walls heat slower than air
convection
Fan-forced ovens cook faster by moving hot air
easy-bake
A toy oven once cooked using a lightbulb
for instance

easy-bake oven — toy oven by hasbro since 1963, used heat element to bake real small cakes

pizza oven at petronio's — wood-fired brick oven in naples, italy, registered as historic culinary site

auschwitz crematorium ovens — nazi death camp ovens used 1941-1945 during holocaust

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