Abstract: The self incinerating oven has a housing provided with opposed radiant walls which define an oven cavity. Each radiant wall is heated by heated air from a combustion chamber. Polluted air, containing volatile, organic compounds (VOC's), from the drying of painted objects in the oven cavity, is directed from the oven cavity, through ducts to suspended, recuperative, heat exchanger tubes in the incineration chamber. The preheated, polluted air, at 800.degree. F.-1000.degree. F. emerging from the heat exchanger, is discharged adjacent to a linear gas burner, in the combustion chamber. The VOC's are burned by the burner and part of the heated air and products of combustion are directed to heat one of the radiant walls.