Abstract: A cooking oven utilizing in combination, convection, radiant, and pregnation heating. The apparatus includes a cooking compartment positioned between combustion chambers that provide spaced apart confronting heating surfaces which provide radiant heating, and forced circulating heating air passages, each of which have an inlet opening with a closed heated plenum chamber so as to forcibly discharge pregnating heat therethrough into the cooking compartment, with the heated air contained in the cooking chamber providing normal convection heating therein.