History of the microwave oven
Pre-1700s
Most obviously people have been cooking food using the same cooking principles as a modern oven forever. From roasting pits to cauldrons to earthen kiln-like structures, some form of oven has been around forever.France was home to the first written historical record of an oven being built, constructed using bricks and tiles.
1700s
Around 1728, German-designed cast-iron ovens began being made in serious quantities. These were known as Five-plate or Jamb stoves. Then a Bavarian architect named François de Cuvilliés invented the first recorded enclosed oven, called the Castrol stove, also known as the stew stove. The enclosed nature of the oven was an innovation as it contained the smoke inside the oven, which had not been done before. Towards the end of the 1700s Benjamin Thompson aka Count Rumford invented an iron stove that allowed the user to adjust the temperature of the individual stovetops; a huge innovation at the time, and a step towards our modern stovetops.1800s
The first gas oven was patented by James Sharp, however gas ovens were not a common household appliance until the 1920s. And in 1892 we saw the first electric oven; an early version of the electric oven was manufactured by a Canadian named Thomas Ahearn, and put into service at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa.1900s
Sure the 1900s must be associated with the development of that most convenient of cooking appliances: the microwave. An engineer named Percy LeBaron Spencer was researching microwave-producing magnetrons when he discovered that microwaves could cook food faster than the application of heat could. The first commercial microwave oven was produced in 1954.
Oven is very important in culinary industry, because basically, the oven is one of the basic equipment that never goes out of the kitchen, and I think the beginning and end of cooking are with the oven. The oven can make a variety of food, such as bread, cookies, pies, or grilled and toast, which I want, and I can cook at the time and temperature I want.In a microwave oven, the food cooks in a fraction of the time compared to a regular oven.
This kind of microwave oven is perfect for those with limited space. Many people who live in apartments don't have very large kitchens. If people don't have room for a full-size stove this is a great solution. Moreover, one thing most people hate about cooking in a large oven is the cleaning you have to do afterwards. Since the size is smaller there is a lot less to clean.
Reference
Hurwood, 2015, A brief history of ovens, Canstar Blue.
http://www.canstarblue.com.au/appliances/kitchen/ovens/a-history-of-ovens/
