Patent ID: 8247743

Claim:
An oven comprising: a cooking chamber in which a cooking vessel can be disposed for heating of food or other substances retained on the cooking vessel, the cooking chamber having a front-most one-third portion, a middle one-third portion, and a rear-most one-third portion in a depth direction of the cooking chamber, the cooking chamber having a left-most one-third portion, a center one-third portion, and a right-most one-third portion in a width direction of the cooking chamber; an oven door; an access opening that is selectively opened and closed by the oven door and which defines the front of the cooking chamber of the oven; and an electric resistance heating element disposed in a lowermost portion of the oven, the electric resistance heating element comprising: a sinuous-shaped, lower baking element formed only by a single continuous wire coupled at a first end to a first plug and at a second end to a second plug, the sinuous-shaped, lower baking element having a first front side flank portion and a second front side flank portion and at least one front side interior portion, the at least one front side interior portion being disposed intermediate the first front side flank portion and the second front side flank portion as viewed in the width direction perpendicular to the depth direction of the cooking chamber of the oven from the front of the cooking chamber of the oven to the rear of the cooking chamber of the oven and the first front side flank portion and the second front side flank portion each extending closer to the front of the cooking chamber of the oven than the at least one front side interior portion, wherein each of the first front side flank portion, the second front side flank portion, and the at least one front side interior portion includes a semi-circular extent that extends in the depth direction from the rear of the cooking chamber of the oven toward the front of the cooking chamber of the oven and thereafter extends in the depth direction from the front of the cooking chamber of the oven toward the rear of the cooking chamber of the oven, and wherein an entire length of the semi-circular extent of the at least one front side interior portion is located only in the front-most one-third portion of the oven in the depth direction such that food or other substances retained on the cooking vessel in the front-most one-third portion in the depth direction and one of the left-most one-third portion and the right-most one-third portion in the width direction is heated by the sinuous-shaped, lower baking element uniformly with food or other substances retained on the cooking vessel in the front-most one-third portion in the depth direction and the center one-third portion in the width direction of the cooking chamber.