Oven

There is quite a demand for innovative grills and ovens that take campsite cuisine to new levels, but few pack as much punch as Ooni's new wood-fired pizza oven.

​​There’s nothing quite like a warm and crispy pizza pie pulled straight from a wood fire oven, but few have the capacity to create such a meal in their own kitchen. Breville is out to change that with a new countertop pizza oven for the home.

A company called Brava is launching a countertop oven that cooks food quickly and thoroughly using visible and infrared light, and if you cut through the marketing faff it looks like there might just be a useful product hiding under there.

There’s one big problem to cooking with the power of the Sun – half the time it’s gone. To extend the cookouts to all hours, GoSun has now whipped up the GoSun Fusion, which adds an electric heating element to the device.

In 2013 GoSun unveiled its first solar oven. Using parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight, this portable convection oven is designed to cook a variety of foods. Now, after several different iterations, the company is launching its cheapest and most portable version, the GoSun Go.

Wacky garage inventor Colin Furze occasionally takes on build projects suggested by viewers of his popular YouTube channel. Such is the case for his latest build – a microwave oven with an LCD display panel squeezed into the door, and ports for feeding in games from a pocket console.​

​​Perhaps one of the biggest things that people obsess over after leaving their house is, "Did I leave the oven burner on?". Well, if they had the Inirv React system in their kitchen, they could check on their smartphone. If it turned out that a burner was on, they could then remotely turn it off.

​Samsung’s Family Hub Refrigerator will soon have some smart company in the kitchen. The company is adding more app-enabled appliances with a new range of built-in ovens, cooktops and range hoods that connect to each other and the Samsung SmartThings Hub via Wi-Fi.

From jet engines to office buildings, we've seen all manner of things constructed with 3D-printing techniques, but we're yet to see it used to make something that can cook us a hot meal, until now that is. The Pyra, by Oakland-based Fathom, is the first 3D-printed smart oven.

If you can't cook toast without burning it then pay attention: help may soon be at hand. The June Intelligent Oven is a computer-based countertop oven that's aimed at letting anyone produce restaurant-quality meals. It can recognize food, cook to preference and help plan the shopping.

Most of the equipment we saw at Overland Expo came in large, XL and XXXL sizes, but there were also a few interesting accessories on show. The Solavore Sport oven is a simple cooking device that transforms the sun's rays into baking and slow-cooking heat.

The GoSun Stove solar cooker uses parabolic mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a glass tube and cook the contents inside, allowing it to act as a portable convection oven. After the meal is done, it can be folded up into a small, lightweight bundle that fits easily inside a backpack.