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If you've ever been on a vacation, or a business trip, and said to yourself, "Gee, I'd really like a roast chicken, if only I had an oven," then I have great news for you. Scientists in Taiwan have created an oven out of cloth. The lightweight, foldable oven is easily transported and weighs "just a few hundred grams." Although, it does take a lot of power to make it work.

Personally I think it's pretty cool. While I wouldn't necessarily take it on a trip with me, it would be really great to store in my desk drawer. Just think, I could do all 52 weeks of baking here in the office!

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My father and I are thinking about purchasing a new oven. The one that currently sits in our kitchen is about 25 years old. It functions fine, but the temperature setting is incorrect and part of the ceiling is caving in. Burned bits along the bottom ignite in flames — even right after it's been cleaned — causing a smoky mess.

I know nothing about buying ovens and was wondering if you could help me research them. Search for a modern oven with convection heating and self cleaning modes. Bookmark the ovens you find in the Yum Market on TeamSugar with the keyword tag, New Oven. Thanks for your help, my dad and I really appreciate it!

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Alexis Soyer, a significant chef, humanitarian, and inventor, was born in France on February 4th, 1810. He learned to cook in France, but left for London during the 1830 revolution. While in London, he began work in the renowned kitchen of the Duke of Cambridge.

Soyer was a man with a social conscious and eventually petitioned to work for the Irish government. Leaving his prestigious position behind, he set up kitchens across the nation during the potato famine. Later he was sent to the front lines of the Crimean War where he fed the starving British troops. However his most important, long lasting contribution to the culinary world happened on today's date in 1855. At that time he created and introduced the first portable oven, shown at left, which allowed him to serve the soldiers warm meals on the field. Amazingly, the basic design was still in use by the British Army over a century later during the first Gulf War.

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About a month ago, there was a hot new oven popping up all over the blogs. The oven, which is called the TurboChef Speed Oven, is a "high performance" oven that is a ridiculously fast oven that prepares meals 15 times faster than normal ovens. It's already in use in quick service restaurants (like Subway) but now you can take the oven into your own home. Price you'll have to pay to cook a properly roasted lamb in six minutes? Try around $8000.

To celebrate the launch of the TurboChef oven, Chicago's famed chef Charlie Trotter and his new pals - Kim Cattrall (hrmm... I have a hard time seeing Samantha cooking let alone endorsing an oven...), Cynthia Rowley, Ted Allen (who, in other news, has signed on to do more episodes of Top Chef), and chef Alan Wyse - were on hand to whip up a meal and have fun in the kitchen.

To check out more pictures of folks having fun with the super-fast TurboChef,  read more