GE Profile Advantium 120 Speedcook Oven

This space age kitchen appliance uses high-powered halogen lights instead of molecules to cook full meals at speeds up to 5 times faster than traditional microwaves or ovens. Besides speed, cooking with light doesn't discriminate like a microwave with what food you can put in it. It can cook a steak or a pie just as well as your oven and do it in half the time.

While light cooking products have been on the market for a couple of years, GE is introducing the first high speed light cooking oven to incorporate a standard 120 volt plug, instead of a 220v beast that required three electricians and a custom install. The lower voltage 120 reduces its speed from 5 times to 3X faster, but it adds three more cooking options: a microwave mode, a broiler oven function and a food-warming tray. $750. www.geappliances.com/advantium