Patent ID: 8895902

Claim:
An oven for heating food, comprising a housing having a left side, a right side, a top, a bottom, a back, and a front, an oven cavity inside the housing comprising at least one heating compartment for heating food placed in the compartment, the heating compartment having a left side wall, a right side wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and an open front, without a door, in open communication with a surrounding environment outside the oven, gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls, a blower for blowing gas through the gas flow openings in at least one of the left and right side walls into the heating compartment, a heater for heating gas blowing into the heating compartment through the gas flow openings, and wherein the gas flow openings are configured such that substantially all of the gas blowing into the heating compartment is directed generally away from the open front of the compartment.