Abstract: Apparatus in the form of at least one cooking chamber, e.g. a cooker or an oven for building into a kitchen unit, with the cooking chamber being delimited by a generally rectangular muffle (20) having an open front face. Heater elements (41) are disposed inside the muffle and/or outside the muffle in a contiguous chamber, and a thermally insulating material (50) is moulded over the side walls of the muffle together with the contiguous chamber if present. The thermally insulating material constitutes the core of a frame for the apparatus and forms part of a structure which provides at least a portion of the outside walls of the apparatus. Moulding the insulating material directly over the cooking chamber facilitates manufacture and reduces heat losses through heat-conducting bridges.

Abstract: A pyrolytically cleaned domestic cooking oven including a catalyst for combustion of the smoke evolved during cleaning, and a temperature sensor placed inside the catalyst and arranged to regulate the heating control of the oven during pyrolytic cleaning.

Abstract: Regulation of the temperature of a pyrolitically cleaned cooking oven during cleaning to avoid local overheating of the oven base plate enamel. A heating-up power level is used until near the pyrolitic temperature, and then a lower power level is used for maintaining the oven at about the pyrolitic cleaning temperature. The change over takes place preferably at about 470.degree. C.

Abstract: A pyrolytic self-cleaning oven includes means for heating a thermally insulated oven muffle to a temperature of about 400.degree. to 500.degree. C. to clean the walls thereof by pyrolysis. In order to facilitate the pyrolytic self cleaning action and to reduce the overall time of high heat application to the oven muffle to effect that cleaning, the coldest regions of the muffle, including the inner surface of the access door and narrow zones of the muffle walls immediately surrounding the muffle access opening and the air inlets to the muffle, are provided with a coating of catalytic enamel capable of withstanding the pyrolytic cleaning temperature.