Types of Ovens: Convection, Microwave, Brick and Pizza Ovens

Ten ways to bake and roast: the everyday gas and electric ovens, the convection oven with a fan that circulates hot air, the microwave, the toaster oven, the steam oven, the rotisserie that turns meat on a spit, the cast-iron Dutch oven, and the wood-fired brick and pizza ovens that reach far higher temperatures than a home oven.

Convection and rotisserie, the two longest words, each fill nearly a whole row; rotisserie reads backwards.

Types of Ovens Vocabulary: 10 Words to Find

Words run across, up, and diagonally; 7 of the 10 read backwards. The longest words are Convection and Rotisserie, with 10 letters each.

Brick: A brick oven, heated by a wood fire, used for pizza and bread.
Convection: A convection oven, which uses a fan to circulate hot air so food cooks faster and more evenly.
Dutch: A Dutch oven, a heavy cast-iron pot with a tight lid for slow cooking, stews and bread.
Electric: An electric oven, heated by metal elements that glow when current passes through them.
Gas: A gas oven, heated by a burning gas flame.
Microwave: An oven that heats food with microwaves, which make the water molecules in it vibrate.
Pizza: A pizza oven, wood-fired or electric, that gets much hotter than a home oven.
Rotisserie: An oven or grill attachment that slowly turns meat on a spit as it cooks.
Steam: A steam oven, which cooks with hot steam to keep food moist.
Toaster: A small oven, or a slot machine, that browns bread.

How to Solve the Types of Ovens Word Search

The double Z of "pizza" is the easiest find, reading normally across. "Microwave" has the only W and runs upward, like "electric" and "gas". "Brick" has the only B and K and reads backwards.

Oven Science Activities

Ask students how each oven heats food: flame, electric element, fan, microwaves or steam.
Bake the same cookie in a regular and a convection oven and compare.
Find out why a microwave heats the water in food but not a glass plate.