2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

List of ovens
This is a list of oven types. An oven is a thermally insulated chamber
used for the heating, baking or drying of a substance,[1] and most
commonly used for cooking or for industrial processes (industrial oven).
Kilns and furnaces are special-purpose ovens. Kilns have historically
been used in the production of pottery, quicklime, charcoal, etc., while
furnaces are mainly used in metalworking (metallurgical furnace) and
other industrial processes (industrial furnace).

Materials; the two basic historical types

Ovens historically have been made by either digging the heating
chamber into the earth, or by building them from various materials:

Earth ovens, dug into the earth and covered with non-permanent
means, like leaves and soil
Masonry ovens, a term historically used for "built-up ovens", usually
made of clay, adobe and cob, stone, and brick. A modern double oven

Modern ovens are made of industrial materials.

Earth ovens

An earth oven, or cooking pit, is one of the most simple and long-used cooking structures. At its
simplest, an earth oven is a pit in the ground used to trap heat and bake, smoke, or steam food. Earth
ovens have been used in many places and cultures in the past, and the presence of such cooking pits is
a key sign of human settlement often sought by archaeologists. They remain a common tool for
cooking large quantities of food where no equipment is available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 1/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Name Image Description

Barbecue is both a cooking method and apparatus.
Pit barbecue – a method and constructed item for barbecue
cooking meat and root vegetables buried below the surface
of the earth.

Barbecue

A pit barbecue

A traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using

Hāngī
heated rocks buried in a pit oven still used for special occasions.

Huatia

Kalua

Pachamanca

Masonry ovens

See below under "Baking ovens", both for masonry oven in general and for various types.

Purpose
Broadly speaking, ovens have always been used either for cooking, prominently for baking; or for
industrial purposes – for producing metals out of ores, charcoal, coke, ceramic, etc.

Baking ovens
Industrial devices
Industrial ovens
Furnaces such as metallurgical and industrial furnaces

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 2/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Kilns

Baking

Baking is a food cooking method that uses prolonged dry heat by convection, rather than by thermal
radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones.[2] Bread is a commonly baked
food.

Baking bread in a commercial

oven

Bread being baked in a tabun

oven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 3/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Name Image Description

A heat storage oven and cooker, which works on the principle
that a heavy frame made from cast iron components can
AGA cooker absorb heat from a relatively low-intensity but continuously-
burning source, and the accumulated heat can then be used
when needed for cooking.

Bachelor
griller

Beehive oven

Chorkor oven

Clome oven

Communal
oven

Convection
microwave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 4/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Name Image Description

Convection
oven

May refer to several types of cooking appliances and devices

Cooker
used for cooking foods

Dutch oven

Easy-Bake
Oven

Egyptian egg
oven

Halogen oven

Haybox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 5/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Name Image Description

Horno

Hot Box
(appliance)

Kitchen stove

Kitchener
range

Masonry In Arabic-speaking countries, the masonry oven is called "furn,"

oven derived from the Greek word "fournos"

Kyoto box
Microwave
oven

Reflector
oven

Rotimatic An automatic kitchen robot that bakes rotis and tortillas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 6/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Name Image Description

Russian oven

Self-cleaning
oven

Solar cooker

An electric table or cabinet top popular in the 1950s. Large

Roaster oven enough to bake turkeys, they had removable inserts which held
the food and a lid, often with a glass insert.

Tabun oven

Tandoor

Tannur May be used for either baking or cooking

Toaster and
toaster oven

Trivection
oven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 7/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Name Image Description

Wood-fired
oven

Industrial

Industrial ovens & furnaces

Industrial ovens are heated chambers used for a variety of industrial applications, including drying,
curing, or baking components, parts or final products. Industrial ovens can be used for large or small
volume applications, in batches or continuously with a conveyor line, and a variety of temperature
ranges, sizes and configurations.

Name Image Description

A type of furnace used for thermal processing. They are used
Batch oven
in numerous production and laboratory applications.
Burn-in ovens
Clean process
oven
Flame broiler

Pictured is an industrial convection oven used in the

Industrial oven
manufacture of aircraft components

Heat tunnel
Reach-in oven
Walk-in/Truck-
in ovens
Spiral ovens Ovens with a helical conveyor

Coke ovens

Kilns

A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to
complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Various industries and trades
use kilns to harden objects made from clay into pottery, bricks etc.[3] Various industries use rotary
kilns for pyroprocessing—to calcinate ores, produce cement, lime, and many other materials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 8/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

Name Image Description

An ancient type of pottery kiln
Anagama
brought to Japan from China
kiln
via Korea in the 5th century.

Charcoal See for instance Birch Creek

kiln and Tybo Charcoal Kilns
A coke oven at a smokeless
fuel plant in Wales, United
Kingdom

Bottle oven

Brick
clamp
A rotary kiln

Cement
kiln

Lime kiln

A pyroprocessing device
used to raise materials to a
Rotary kiln high temperature
(calcination) in a continuous
process

Top-lit
updraft
gasifier
Tube
furnace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 9/10
2/4/24, 1:46 PM List of ovens - Wikipedia

See also
Autoclave (industrial)
Cooker Cooking portal
Furnace
Food portal
Gas Mark
List of cooking appliances Technology
portal
List of cooking techniques
List of home appliances Lists portal
List of stoves
Primitive clay oven
Redstone Coke Oven Historic District
Stove

References
1. Oven (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oven). Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved on
2011-11-23.
2. Oxford English Dictionary
3. "Brick making kilns" (http://www.bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/Goyer/Kilns/Goyer_Kilns_and_Brick
_Making.pdf) (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-20.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_ovens&oldid=1201135189"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ovens 10/10