Patent ID: 7619186

Claim:
An infrared oven having an intelligent user interface, comprising: an oven housing; an oven chamber adapted for receiving a food, the oven chamber located within the oven housing; at least one first infrared heater located inside of the oven chamber and positioned to be on one side of the food; at least one second infrared heater located inside of the oven chamber and positioned to be on another side of the food, wherein the infrared heaters emit radiant heat at infrared wavelengths selected from the range of about 1 to not greater than about 3 microns for cooking the food; and an intelligent user interface for controlling the at least one first and the at least one second infrared heaters, wherein the intelligent user interface has a plurality of selectable predefined food cooking profiles and a convert-menu for receiving conventional cooking parameters from a user, including the food type, a conventional cooking time, and a conventional cooking temperature, and converting the conventional cooking parameters into an infrared cooking time using the algorithm: infrared cooking time=( X+Y )* A, wherein X is based on the conventional cooking time, Y is based on the food type, and A is based on the conventional cooking temperature.