An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking, or drying of a substance,[1] and most commonly used for cooking. Kilns and furnaces are special-purpose ovens used in pottery and metalworking, respectively.

Applications:

• Electronics testing
• Burn-in test for detecting early failures in manufactured integrated circuits
• Solder strength testing in circuit boards
• Accelerated simulations to measure prolonged product use
• Curing to catalyze a chemical reaction and alter the chemical nature of advanced polymers
• Forensic labs use specially configured vacuum ovens as fingerprint development chambers
• Biological laboratories employ gravity convection ovens for removal of microbiological contaminants in labware and vacuum ovens for adhering substrates to the 
• Environmental laboratories dry specimens in laboratory ovens, weighing the samples before and after drying, to determine the moisture content of the sample. Gravity convection and forced-air ovens are used for these types of processes