Electric Oven Photos Courtesy of Intek Corporation.

Every product has a standard model that is used as a foundation to build similar products with variances for specific needs. Amongst the ovens used in the industrial, commercial and residential contexts, that standard model is the electric oven. Although it is not the original cooking model (that would be a basic fire, in a pit or fireplace) it has been the standard for the last hundred or so years. This is because it is a simple, low risk oven, mostly because it can only reach fairly low temperatures of heat. It is also a very dependable model. It comes in a variety of sizes, although the larger an industrial oven gets the less likely that it will be able to heat consistently and evenly with electric power. Therefore it is usually the smaller ovens, such as those in residential homes and for less intense industrial heating projects that are electric ovens.

Just because they aren’t made big does not mean that electric ovens are not popular. The way they function varies, but is often related to electric coils on the top, bottom and both sides of the internal section of the oven. Another way for electric ovens to heat is by way of tungsten coils, which is a heating method that also defines infrared ovens. These are not always powered by electricity but sometimes are. Regardless, electric ovens are energy efficient, which also means that they are financially efficient. As with most standard products, they are often shaped in the regular oven square or rectangle, depending on the space they will occupy. They are also usually made from standard oven materials such as stainless steel, which is sanitary, easy-to-clean, sturdy and able to withstand high temperatures without damaging. The one thing that is not standard about electric ovens is the ways that some industries think up to use them. For example, they can be used for moisture removal, curing, hardening ceramics, activating adhesives, fusing materials together, sintering, melting and laminating.