Oven is an essential requirement for a kitchen. Oven is not a new kitchen appliance. It has been in use since ancient times. Oven is an enclosed compartment which becomes hot due to heat source inside. It is used for heating, baking and drying. Besides cooking, ovens are also used for pottery making also. However, ovens used for pottery are very large and are known as the kilns. An oven is used in kitchen all over the world to heat and cook food. Modern kitchen is incomplete without a good quality oven.

There are two types of ovens available and are in use. One is the gas oven and another is the electric oven. Though both kinds of ovens are meant for same purpose but the taste of food is different when cooked in these ovens.

Gas ovens are like a round pot. It has two main parts. Its pot is placed upon the gas stove and is covered with a lid made of thick metal. It gets heated by the gas flame beneath the pot. Anything to be cooked is placed over a mash provided with it. The food is cooked by the heat reflected by the walls of the oven.

An electric oven is a modern kitchen appliance. It also has a chamber which gets heated by the hot walls inside. There are electric coils behind the walls of the ovens. These coils get hot when electric current passes into them. Food is placed upon the mash or a plate provide with the oven.

There is timer and the temperature controller provide with the electric oven. You can set time and temperature which is required for a particular type of food to get cooked.

If you use your oven occasionally, the cost of running does not vary significantly. However, if you use it more often and for bigger meals, it is quite economical to buy a gas oven. It may cost you more initially but is less expensive in long run.

As compared to electric ovens, gas oven get hot and cool down quickly as compared to electric ovens. However, heat is distributed more evenly inside an electric oven. Things like cakes, pies, bread bake more precisely in electric ovens as they use dry heat. There is slight difference between the cooking style of these two ovens and hence the taste. It is the matter of personal preference about the choice of oven.

You can search online if you want to buy a oven. There are several online shopping stores providing these at affordable prices.