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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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" Although there is a fabulous executive kitchen down in the basement, still the first family needs to be able to cook a hamburger or breakfast or whatever and this little space in the corner is just barely 10 x 10 and we've just got kind of you know home center bought cabinets that are being put in and over here we have a different kind of oven being installed and Todd Graves from GE is here to explain it to us."

" Hi Bob!"

" How are you Todd?"

" This is essentially cooking with light, right?"

" That's right. That's right. We use high-powered halogen light to cook oven-quality foods in an average of a fourth t time. What we've got here is a configuration if it's above the normal cooktop in the kitchen, and as you could see here we've got a vented to take your cooktop smoke and grease and vented up and out of the kitchen through the duct work here."

" Right and it's just mounts on the back plate, right."

" That's right."

" Okay,"

" And Howard and Vincent here are going to install it. You're gonna see how easy it is to install."

" This is a standard 30-inch wide installation."

" I remember they used to make microwave ovens. They were combinations."

" Here we go."

" Is it clear?"

" Here we go."

" There was combination exhaust to it in microwave."

" That's right and this is designed to replace that exactly."

" Is halogen cooking easy?"

" That's right and what we've done is packaged it with the microwave oven to give the convenience of microwave and halogen cooking all in the same oven. "

" So it just hangs up the rack on the back wall and a couple of bolts hold it in place on the top. And how much voltage are we looking at here?"

" That's a 240 volts circuit."

" Okay. So when you talk cooking light, you really mean it. That's a lot of light."

" We use a lot of power and that's how we get the speed."

" How does it work?"

" Well let me, I've got something to cook for you just as soon as I set the clock here and you could see the easy to use control."

" Oh, you're gonna make crescent roll."

" I'm gonna make some crescent roll."

" Okay."

" You could see on the interior here we've got halogen bulbs above and below the cooking surface."

" We'll just place the food in there, close the door."

" It made the Advantium very easy to use."

" To cook the crescent rolls, you just press "SPEED COOK" and you'll see the first thing is a broad list of categories of foods. We're gonna do breads then dial down to crescent rolls. I believe it will ask you what kind of bread you're cooking. Once you're in crescent rolls, I believe it will ask you if you have a four-pack or an eight-pack. In this case, we're cooking a four-pack, so it's gonna take three minutes and thirty seconds."

" Push the "START?""

" And just press the "START." And you will see the lights come on."

" Look in there so you can see what's happening."

" That's right."

" And the fact it's bread light that'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 is a very efficient way to cook."

" Okay, it's just a couple of seconds left to go but I can see that they're getting tough round in there."

" That's right. That's the power of the halogen lights."

" Now, what do you see is the real market for this type of oven? "

" We'll, we think families on the go that just don't have time to cook today really gonna see a benefit from this product."

" It's gradually a large space so you can put a whole chicken in there, don't' you?"

" That's right. We can do five to six pounds of whole chicken in minutes as opposed to an hour and twenty to an hour and forty minutes in a regular oven. "

" Fabulous and the exhaust fan is well it shut off"

" That's right."

" Now let's try to cool it down."

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