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Reviewing the Kitchen Appliances

Bob tours the restoration on the governor's mansion in VA and visits the "first kitchen" where Todd Graves with GE appliances shows Bob the Halogen oven.
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Reviewing the Kitchen Appliances

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" Although there -- that fabulous executive kitchen down in the basement. Still for a family needs to be able to -- hamburger breakfast or whatever in this little space in the corners just barely ten by ten. And we've just get kind of you know. Home home center bought cabinets that are being put in. And over here we have a different kind of oven being installed Todd graves from GE is here to explain it to us about or it's not. This is essentially. Cooking with light right that's right that's right these high power halogen light and Coke oven quality foods in Africa before the time. What we've got here's the configuration -- above the normal cooktop in the kitchen. And as you can see here we've got a minute to think -- cook top smoke -- And then it up and out of the kitchen through the duct work here right and it just mounts on that back place right that's threat today. And Howard -- here going to solid you're gonna see how easy it is to install. This is a standard thirty inch wide installation. I remember the used to make. Microwave ovens that we're combination. The clean and there were combination exhaust hood in the microwave that's right and and designed to replace that's exactly. It's halogen cookies that's right and and the what we've done it's packaged it with a microwave oven to get the convenience of microwave and halogen cooking alone single. So just hangs up Iraq on the back wall and a couple of bolts hold that place on the top. How much voltage are really here that's 240 volt circuit OK so -- when you talked. Cooking light do you really mean that's allow light we use a lot of power that's how we get speak."

" How does that work well let me let me I've got something to -- for justice and that's that the clock here. And you can see the easy to use control. But -- crescent and it makes depressant okay. It's in the interior here we've got halogen bulbs above and below the cooking surface -- place food in their closet. And maybe advantage and very easy to use. But it cooked oppressive rule if this press speed -- it to the first things abroad list of categories of foods we're gonna do breads. And dial down to crescent rolls Italy and ask you what kind of record -- Once repressive roles and -- and ask you -- before packer an eight pack. And -- that in this case we're looking at warp crack. So it's gonna take three minutes thirty seconds to start to press the start."

" We'll lights come -- but in there you can see what's happening that's right -- them right like it's actually cooking it. Extremely powerful and the heat from the light is focused directly on whatever it is you're cooking as opposed to the whole space that's right it's -- very efficient way to cut. OK just a couple of things -- ago when I can see that they're even getting tough round yeah that's right that's the power halogen. Now what he's is that the real market for this type of well we think families on the go with -- don't have time to put today. They're really going to see a benefit. Product it's relatively large space you can put old chicken and equipment that's right we can do apart the sixth. We'll -- and 45 minutes as opposed to an hour and 21 hour hour forty minutes of the regular active. And he's not finished well action itself off now to try to cool it down."

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