Rapid cook technology cooks food up to five times faster than conventional ovens.
Compact configuration provides a number of installation options.
In some quarters, the clocking of food preparation has become just as critical as timing a sprinter who's training for the next Olympics. Another player, the JetDirect oven from Thermador, Huntington Beach, Calif., now part of Bosch Appliances, will also hit the market soon. Since these ovens utilize unconventional and unfamiliar cooking technologies, it would be unreasonable to expect a consumer to determine the proper time and combination of various heat inputs for cooking different foods. These approaches are designed to place the burden of thinking on the machine, and not the user. While each of the technologies may yield a slightly different cooking time for two chicken breasts or a pan of lasagna, their time comparisons are aimed at conventional ovens more than each other.