Patent ID: 8026463

Claim:
An oven for cooking a food product, comprising: a cooking chamber comprising a top, a bottom, and a food product support; one or more magnetrons that communicates microwave energy into the cooking chamber; a conduit in fluid communication with the cooking chamber; one or more air blowers communicating a gas flowing through the conduit to the cooking chamber; a thermal energy source for heating the gas; a first tube or a first nozzle generating a first airflow of the gas into the cooking chamber; and a second tube or a second nozzle generating a second airflow of the gas into the cooking chamber, wherein the first and the second tubes or nozzles respectively direct the first and the second airflows towards substantially opposite portions of the food product support at a non-zero angle less than 90 degrees with respect to a surface of the food product support, with the directions of the first and the second airflows meeting each other above the food product on the food product support in the cooking chamber.