Abstract: A lightwave oven for heating food in a cooking chamber includes an oven housing, a drawer that can be moved out and in through an opening in the oven housing and has a bottom plate, side walls, and a rear wall that bound the cooking chamber, and a front plate to close the opening in the oven housing. A top plate is disposed above the drawer. The top plate can be moved relative to the drawer in the oven housing, rests on the drawer when in an operating position, and, as a result, bounds the cooking chamber of the drawer from above. Such a lightwave oven is configured to simplify and make easier the cleaning of the cooking chamber, and can be constructed cost-effectively and, furthermore, can be used flexibly.

Abstract: A microwave device includes a cooking space disposed in a housing, at least one microwave source, and at least one further radiation source, as an alternative to the microwave source, which is protected from microwaves from the microwave source by a shielding grid. At least one grid wall of the shielding grid has a radiation reflector by which it is possible for rays from the alternative radiation source to be reflected into the cooking space.

Abstract: A microwave device includes a cooking space disposed in a housing, at least one microwave source, and at least one further radiation source, as an alternative to the microwave source, which is protected from microwaves from the microwave source by a shielding grid. At least one grid wall of the shielding grid has a radiation reflector by which it is possible for rays from the alternative radiation source to be reflected into the cooking space.

Abstract: A lightwave oven for heating food in a cooking chamber includes an oven housing, a drawer that can be moved out and in through an opening in the oven housing and has a bottom plate, side walls, and a rear wall that bound the cooking chamber, and a front plate to close the opening in the oven housing. A top plate is disposed above the drawer. The top plate can be moved relative to the drawer in the oven housing, rests on the drawer when in an operating position, and, as a result, bounds the cooking chamber of the drawer from above. Such a lightwave oven is configured to simplify and make easier the cleaning of the cooking chamber, and can be constructed cost-effectively and, furthermore, can be used flexibly.

Abstract: A microwave device includes a cooking space disposed in a housing, at least one microwave source, and at least one further radiation source, as an alternative to the microwave source, which may be protected from microwaves by a protective device. The protective device has a control unit by which it is possible to establish a protective state for the alternative radiation source.

Abstract: A lightwave oven includes a cooking chamber, at least one wall having a translucent region, at least one duct separated from the chamber by the wall, the duct having at least one inlet opening supplying cooling air therein and at least one outlet opening discharging the cooling air, at least one lightwave heating device heating food in the chamber, the heating device having at least one rod-shaped radiant lamp producing lightwaves, the radiant lamp being disposed within the duct and having a longitudinal extent, and at least one reflector surface for reflecting the lightwaves produced by the radiant lamp into the chamber, and the inlet opening and the outlet opening being disposed to direct the cooling air in the duct to flow substantially at right angles to the longitudinal extent of the radiant lamp.

Abstract: A lightwave oven includes a cooking chamber and at least one lightwave heating device that can be moved to and fro on a travel path between a first position and a second position. To distribute the lightwave energy emitted by the lightwave heating device as uniformly as possible in the entire lightwave oven, the lamp reflector is pivotally disposed in the lightwave oven, which achieves an improvement in the browning of edges of food to be cooked.

Abstract: A lightwave oven having a cooking chamber and at least one lightwave heating device for heating food in the cooking chamber, and at least one reflector for reflecting the lightwaves produced by the lightwave heating device in the direction of the food and improve thorough cooking and browning of the food. In addition to the radiant lamps of high color temperature, separate radiant lamps of low color temperature are provided to also improve browning of the food. In each case, two radiant lamps of different color temperature can be fixed to a common holder, the holder being held on a movement device such that it can be pivoted, and the radiant lamps radiating light in different directions.

Abstract: A lightwave oven includes a lightwave heating device having at least one radiant lamp and at least one reflector having a reflective surface whose geometric shape is formed by a generatrix. Improved thorough cooking and browning of food in the oven is achieved by using a common radiant lamp both for browning and for cooking, its reflector having a reflective surface produced from a generatrix having a curve lying between an elliptical and a parabolic curve, whose vertices lie at a common first point and whose focal points lie at a common second point.

Abstract: An oven includes a cooking chamber. A cooling-air fan is disposed outside the cooking chamber. An intake opening leads to the cooling-air fan and an exhaust duct leads from the cooling-air fan into the open air. A holding section associated with the exhaust duct has a bearing plate for a motor of the cooling-air fan, in order to reduce mounting expenditures.

Abstract: A lighting device for household appliances such as ovens, includes an electric lamp socket formed of electrically insulating material preventing leakage currents. Contact parts are disposed in the socket. The socket has an access side with a plug-in opening formed therein into which a lamp with a glass bulb, a lamp base of insulating material and contact prongs protruding from the lamp base is to be plugged into contact with the contact parts in a given plug-in direction. An electrically conductive and protectively grounded protective element covers at least the access side of the lamp socket and extends to the vicinity of at least one of the glass bulb and the lamp base. The protective element and the contact parts are spaced apart by a distance being greater than the length of the contact prongs by a required margin of safety, as seen in the given plug-in direction.