Oven
noun
A machine that uses heat for cooking food.
She baked the bread in the oven.
Often appears as...
- bake in the oven
- preheat the oven
noun
A chamber used for certain industrial processes.
The bricks are baked in a high-temperature oven.
Often appears as...
- industrial oven
- high-temperature oven
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A machine that uses heat for cooking food.
She baked the bread in the oven.
Often appears as...
- bake in the oven
- preheat the oven
noun
A chamber used for certain industrial processes.
The bricks are baked in a high-temperature oven.
Often appears as...
- industrial oven
- high-temperature oven
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
An 'oven' is usually found in the kitchen of a house or restaurant.
Her new apartment has a modern kitchen with a built-in oven.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Foods
Ovens can be used to bake, roast, and broil different types of food.
They roasted a chicken and baked a pie in the oven.
Pro Tip 3/3Heat Adjustment
It's important to set the oven at the right temperature for the food you cook.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees before you put in the pizza.
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
An 'oven' is usually found in the kitchen of a house or restaurant.
Her new apartment has a modern kitchen with a built-in oven.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Foods
Ovens can be used to bake, roast, and broil different types of food.
They roasted a chicken and baked a pie in the oven.
Pro Tip 3/3Heat Adjustment
It's important to set the oven at the right temperature for the food you cook.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees before you put in the pizza.
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
An 'oven' is usually found in the kitchen of a house or restaurant.
Her new apartment has a modern kitchen with a built-in oven.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety of Foods
Ovens can be used to bake, roast, and broil different types of food.
They roasted a chicken and baked a pie in the oven.
Pro Tip 3/3Heat Adjustment
It's important to set the oven at the right temperature for the food you cook.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees before you put in the pizza.
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How civilization could...
That maybe by baking sand in the microwave oven or something like that you could have created a nuclear detonation. So we know that that's physically impossible. But before you did the relevant physics how could you have known how it would turn out? Although, couldn't you argue that for life to evolve on Earth
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Eric Berlow: Simplifying...
doesn't always equal complicated. So for me, a well-crafted baguette, fresh out of the oven, is complex, but a curry onion green olive poppy cheese bread is complicated. I'm an ecologist, and I study complexity. I love complexity. And I study that in the natural world, the interconnectedness of species.
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Want to be an activist?...
or in the commercials, and there would be flowery prints all over the ovens, and it would be in bright pink and purple. Very gender-specific colors to females, right? So, it kind of was sending a message that only girls are supposed to cook. Boys aren't. And this discouraged my brother a lot.
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Peter Reinhart: The art...
a few people do, I think, but not too many. I've met some dough eaters, but -- it's not the staff of life, right? Bread is the staff of life. But dough is what we're working with, and we take that dough to the oven, and it goes into the oven. As soon as the interior temperature of that dough
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How to rebuild the world...
importantly helps to break down the food so that we can absorb it so in a very real sense the mill stones are like a technological extension of our own molar teeth and the oven we use for cooking bread or the pot for boiling rice I like
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Nat Geo’s Stop-Motion...
designer the kind of all-around genius behind building all these miniature pieces it's character I make like a skate and after that I'm school with a school P I bake in the oven and after that I paint with acrylic and usually the color
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The twins who tricked...
Sure enough, the lords burned the brothers in an oven, but the seers made sure their remains were thrown in the river, which restored them to life. The brothers then came before the lords disguised as two disheveled children
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The problem of light...
I'm not sure about kitchen appliances. I haven't broken down and gotten an oven that talks to my cell phone yet. And I use lights at night like everybody else. But here's the thing. Some problems in the world,
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Andrew Skurka: Trekking...
be a great trip I'm looking forward to start this thing oven planet forever and I think that this trip will put me or take me to higher highs and lower lows compared to any other trip but that's
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Holding a Red Bellied...
Time for the ultimate killers test. How would the piranha react to my duck? So, we have our oven ready here. Just give it a dabble.
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How civilization could...
That maybe by baking sand in the microwave oven or something like that you could have created a nuclear detonation. So we know that that's physically impossible. But before you did the relevant physics how could you have known how it would turn out? Although, couldn't you argue that for life to evolve on Earth
Video examples
Eric Berlow: Simplifying...
doesn't always equal complicated. So for me, a well-crafted baguette, fresh out of the oven, is complex, but a curry onion green olive poppy cheese bread is complicated. I'm an ecologist, and I study complexity. I love complexity. And I study that in the natural world, the interconnectedness of species.
Video examples
Want to be an activist?...
or in the commercials, and there would be flowery prints all over the ovens, and it would be in bright pink and purple. Very gender-specific colors to females, right? So, it kind of was sending a message that only girls are supposed to cook. Boys aren't. And this discouraged my brother a lot.
Video examples
Peter Reinhart: The art...
a few people do, I think, but not too many. I've met some dough eaters, but -- it's not the staff of life, right? Bread is the staff of life. But dough is what we're working with, and we take that dough to the oven, and it goes into the oven. As soon as the interior temperature of that dough
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
importantly helps to break down the food so that we can absorb it so in a very real sense the mill stones are like a technological extension of our own molar teeth and the oven we use for cooking bread or the pot for boiling rice I like
Video examples
Nat Geo’s Stop-Motion...
designer the kind of all-around genius behind building all these miniature pieces it's character I make like a skate and after that I'm school with a school P I bake in the oven and after that I paint with acrylic and usually the color
Video examples
The twins who tricked...
Sure enough, the lords burned the brothers in an oven, but the seers made sure their remains were thrown in the river, which restored them to life. The brothers then came before the lords disguised as two disheveled children
Video examples
The problem of light...
I'm not sure about kitchen appliances. I haven't broken down and gotten an oven that talks to my cell phone yet. And I use lights at night like everybody else. But here's the thing. Some problems in the world,
Video examples
Andrew Skurka: Trekking...
be a great trip I'm looking forward to start this thing oven planet forever and I think that this trip will put me or take me to higher highs and lower lows compared to any other trip but that's
Video examples
Holding a Red Bellied...
Time for the ultimate killers test. How would the piranha react to my duck? So, we have our oven ready here. Just give it a dabble.
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Quote examples
Paul Hollywood
English Chef
I can judge a restaurant by its bread: it winds me up that a lot of places buy pre-packed ones in and don't bother putting them in the oven to crisp them up again. And you shouldn't put bread on a side-plate: it needs to be pushed back into the centre of the table.
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
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Gino D'Acampo
Italian Chef
My grandfather was a chef and would make everything himself, including the wine, and had his own huge pizza oven. All the neighbors used to come over and use it to bake their bread.
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James Turrell
American Artist
My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.
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Claire Saffitz
American Editor
Always deep fry in a nonreactive, heavy pot with high sides, like an enameled Dutch oven. A heavy pot ensures even heating which means more even cooking.
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Guy Fieri
American Businessman
I have three wood-fired ovens... I have one at my house, one at my ranch, one on the trailer that I use for charity events.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
American Actress
We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
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Julian Nagelsmann
German Coach
I work like a baker. I mix things, put them in the oven and see if I like what comes out.
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Sandra Bullock
American Actress
Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.
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Jose Marti
Cuban Activist
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Quote examples
Paul Hollywood
English Chef
I can judge a restaurant by its bread: it winds me up that a lot of places buy pre-packed ones in and don't bother putting them in the oven to crisp them up again. And you shouldn't put bread on a side-plate: it needs to be pushed back into the centre of the table.
Quote examples
Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
Quote examples
Gino D'Acampo
Italian Chef
My grandfather was a chef and would make everything himself, including the wine, and had his own huge pizza oven. All the neighbors used to come over and use it to bake their bread.
Quote examples
James Turrell
American Artist
My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.
Quote examples
Claire Saffitz
American Editor
Always deep fry in a nonreactive, heavy pot with high sides, like an enameled Dutch oven. A heavy pot ensures even heating which means more even cooking.
Quote examples
Guy Fieri
American Businessman
I have three wood-fired ovens... I have one at my house, one at my ranch, one on the trailer that I use for charity events.
Quote examples
Gwyneth Paltrow
American Actress
We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
Quote examples
Julian Nagelsmann
German Coach
I work like a baker. I mix things, put them in the oven and see if I like what comes out.
Quote examples
Sandra Bullock
American Actress
Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.
Quote examples
Jose Marti
Cuban Activist
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Example 1 of 10
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