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Speedy five-star oven comes home

by Paul Lin

Foodies obsessed with home kitchen performance, here's an oven for you: the TurboChef 30-inch Double Wall Speedcook Oven. It's a conventional/convection oven topped with a high-speed oven that uses the same technology normally reserved for professional appliances.

Double Wall Speedcook Oven
Credit: TurboChef

The upper oven supposedly cooks meals 15 times faster than regular ovens. So if you have, say, a 12-pound turkey, it'll be done in all of 42 minutes vs. the usual four hours. Rack of lamb? Three and a half minutes. Frozen pizza? Piping hot in 90 seconds.

The company says small jets in the upper oven use patented Airspeed Technology to move heated air around the food at speeds up to 60 mph. The air circulates from top to bottom, and a microwave kicks in to speed the cooking process. It's an oven that pros like chef and cookbook author Charlie Trotter of Charlie Trotter's vouch will quickly sear and caramelize the outside of food, locking in 20 percent more moisture.

The oven--which was unveiled at the 2006 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show in Chicago--has hearth-shaped sculpted doors that can be color-matched to suit a kitchen design scheme in colors like red and blue. The product was designed by Frog Design, the same firm behind wearable wireless devices from Motorola. Of course, having the newest technology in the kitchen doesn't come cheap: If you register online to preorder for fall delivery, be prepared to plunk down an eye-popping $7,495--that's four times the cost of a 30-inch standard double oven from KitchenAid, and roughly triple the price of a 30-inch microwave-oven combo.

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