There is a new type of oven causing a sensation in the cooking world and has resulted in some households turning their backs on the old conventional oven. Years ago the microwave turned things on its head with the possibility that it would take the place of an oven, but that wasn’t to be with many people preferring an oven-cooked meal that didn’t leave the food looking a little underdone.

Now, along comes the halogen oven, a small appliance that looks very much like a mixing bowl that a spaceship has landed on. The oven works by means of halogen lamps set into the underside of the lid. These lamps create an intense heat inside the glass bowl that proceeds to cook the food very quickly.

The halogen oven has been billed as an energy efficient equivalent of the oven, but it’s actually more than that. It is a small appliance so it saves space in the kitchen, it uses only a fraction of the time to cook food placed inside and it uses a fraction of the energy that a standard convection oven would use.

All reports indicate that the food that is cooked in these halogen ovens comes out very nicely prepared – succulent, even.

Oh yeah, and there’s one more area that people are finding pretty impressive about the halogen oven and that’s the price. One of these ovens cost a fraction of the price of a conventional oven. For small families or people who live alone this would be the perfect type of oven to serve their needs.