Patent ID: 8445821

Claim:
A built-in cooking device comprising: a cooking device body configured to be built into a cabinet and having in an interior thereof a heating chamber capable of storing an object to be cooked, said cooking device having a front side, said front side having a lower portion; a door capable of closing a front side opening of the heating chamber; and an air-inlet-and-outlet portion having an air inlet portion for taking in cooling air to be sent into the heating chamber and an air outlet portion for discharging an inside air containing heat and vapor generated during cooking of the object to be cooked from the heating chamber; wherein the door has a size large enough to cover the front side of the cooking device body including a lower portion thereof, and wherein the air-inlet-and-outlet portion is recessed at an inner lower side portion facing the lower portion of the cooking device body; a partition separating the air inlet portion and the air outlet portion; and the direction of inlet air and outlet air flowing in the forward and rearward directions through the recessed portion of the door is changed to a perpendicular direction.