Patent ID: 7836874

Claim:
A speed cooking oven for cooking a food product by hot gas and microwave energy, comprising: (a) an oven cavity having a top wall and opposing left and right side walls; (b) a cooking rack in the oven cavity for supporting said food product; (c) a conduit means associated with the oven cavity, said conduit means providing for the circulation of the gas to and from the oven cavity; (d) a flow means for causing circulation of the gas; (e) a thermal means for heating the gas; (f) a control means for controlling the gas flow; (g) a first gas directing means associated with the conduit means and disposed above the food product; (h) a second gas directing means associated with the conduit means disposed above the food product, wherein the first and second gas directing means are configured to cause the gas from the first gas directing means to collide with the gas from the second gas directing means upon the upper surface of the food product; and (i) wherein said first gas directing means directs gas from adjacent the left side wall of the oven cavity, the second gas directing means directs gas from adjacent the right side wall of the oven cavity, and the position of the cooking rack remains fixed relative to the first and second gas directing means during cooking; (j) microwave waveguides for launching microwave energy from adjacent the opposing left and right side walls of the oven cavity; and (k) wherein the microwave energy is delivered to the oven cavity said first and second gas directing means being located between the top wall of the cavity and a bottom wall of the cavity, without a microwave stirrer.