1982 (2014)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
The small squat oven isn't much, but it's served your uncle well.
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Ovens in Interactive Fiction 
Let's look at ovens and stoves! Yes, including microwave ovens.
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1982 (2014)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
The small squat oven isn't much, but it's served your uncle well.
A1RL0CK (2023)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
A glass shelf, on which circles with a thin white profile are drawn. Induction cookers, to avoid open flames at two thousand meters below sea level. Of course.
Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone (2019)
> x microwave (@ Lounge)
The microwave is a mess. You really need to clean it up before the professor has a chance to yell at you about it.
Alcohol solves everything (2007)
> x oven (@ Work Room)
The oven is simply a large cavity in the wall, filled with ashesand dark coal. The paint has peeled off at places, revealing the brick beneath.
Arborea (2022)
> x oven (@ Processing Plant)
This thing will cook stuff in a fraction of the time that it might take to, say, barbecue it instead. The oven controls are reasonably easy to operate and, by way of shorthand, the oven will operate automatically if you place something into it and close the door.
Baking with Lizzie (2017)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
A small, purple oven, about the size of a toaster. There is an on/off switch on the front, next to the door.
Basilica de Sangre (2018)
> x stoves (@ Kitchen)
Hot stoves used to prepare food for the convent's nuns.
Basket of Destiny (2001)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
The stove and fridge came with the apartment when you moved in. That's probably the last time they were cleaned. Luckily, you're afraid to touch them, so they don't get much dirtier these days.
Beet the Devil (2011)
> x oven (@ Hell's Kitchen)
You can see heat shimmering off the huge oven's top and sides.
The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes (2006)
> x oven (@ Yonah's Front Room)
The oven has two shelves - lower and upper - and is inset into the northern wall. It [is not or is] lit.
The Bibliophile (2014)
> x microwave (@ Kitchen Area)
It's not that you're terribly bad at devices but you've had this appliance for four years and have yet to figure out how to make it work. This isn't your fault, you feel, as it was made in Guatemala.
Bio (2003)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
It's a silver stove. It's currently [closed or open].
Bloodless on the Orient Express (2011)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
A regular stove. The bottom part consists of a burner.
Bobby and Bonnie (2017)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
A nice, solid oven.
Bullhockey 2: The Return of The Leather Whip (2019)
> x oven (@ Small Kitchen)
This is a new oven, though there are signs of use--once you two moved back in, Natalie was on a cooking frenzy and you have eaten very well ever since. It is your basic hatch-front oven with a four-burner stove.
> x stove (@ Large Kitchen)
It is wide, made of stainless steel, and has six burners. Beside the burners, there is also a large flat metal area, for stir-frying. Natalie would flip over backwards. Under it is an oven.
> x oven (@ Large Kitchen)
This oven is as wide as the stove above it, and apparently suited for dinner-party use. The door is transparent, made of plate glass, and you can see three racks inside. Several shiny dials grace the front. Natalie would give her eye-teeth for this mechanism.
Bullhockey! (2018)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
It is your typical electric oven, with a range on top--four burners, each with a knob, and door in front.
Cacophony (2009)
> x microwave (@ Real Kitchen)
It still works, but you don't have anything to heat at present.
Captivity (2020)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
The stove is a big pot-bellied affair made of wrought iron.
Capture Santa! (2007)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
A plain white oven with a stove on the top.
Carpathian Vampire (2022)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
It's a simple wood-fired oven, but it doesn't have any fuel.
A Christmas Quest (2020)
> x cooker (@ Kitchen)
It is a very posh model; it has 6 different cooking rings and an oven door. Mr. and Mrs. Claus clearly enjoy their food.
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
You carefully inspect the oven door; it is unremarkable but it does have a handle that is used to open and close it.
City of Dead Leaves (2016)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
It's useless nowadays, of course, but certainly pretty. He would have loved to cook on it.
Clusterflux (2019)
> x oven (@ Small Kitchen)
This is a small, old stovetop oven. It is white with signs of wear and use, but at least it still works. Its door is [closed or open].
Dinner Bell (2012)
> x oven (@ Test Chamber)
This oven's designer got tired of trying to remember if they'd left the oven on, so they invented an oven you can't turn off. Its internal temperature is a constant 400 degrees Fahrenheit. You know this because you are omniscient all of a sudden, but only as regards this oven and the names of everyone in New Jersey.
[if closed:] The oven is closed. This fact is clearly visible to everyone, but you used your omniscience to discern it anyway, because why not.
[if open:] In the oven are [list of items].
Finding the mouse (2009)
> x microwave (@ Kitchen)
A Zaptrue 3500 microwave. Bought second hand from a guy in the back of a truck.
Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg (2021)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
On the whole, not a bad stove.
Heated (2010)
> x stove (@ kitchen)
It was probably once a magnificent electric range, but now it's just a lumpy extension of your counter.
The Impossible Bottle (2020)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
John's Fire Witch (1995)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
There is a thin layer of dust on the stove; further evidence that this room is not used much. Continued inspection shows that the stove does not even work. You wonder if John is aware of this or if he even cares.
Last Day (2020)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
An old gas-powered oven. You've heard of how dangerous these old things are, and a suicidal blip enters your mind.
Looking for Godot (1996)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
It's an oven. You can put things you want to cook on it.
Lydia's Heart (2007)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
The old-fashioned electric stove has an oven door in the front and four heating elements on the top.
Moon-Shaped (2006)
> x stove (@ Your Home)
The potbelly stove is sooty but cold. You haven't done any cooking since yesterday (your weekly baking day), and the weather has been warm enough this spring that you have not needed to heat the house during the day.
Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret (2008)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
The stove is not as nice as the one your family has, and not as clean either. Bits of this and that have dribbled down the front and dried there. It’s [closed or open].
A Quiet Evening at Home (2010)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
a four-burner coil type electric stove.
> x old microwave (@ Kitchen)
an old but functional microwave sits on the counter.
Scary House Amulet! (2002)
> x stove (@ In the House (kitchen))
This dilapated device must be a hundred years old!
Seasonal Apocalpyse Disorder (2020)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
A hot fire burns inside.
The Silence of the Gods (2011)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
The old kind, with the burners on top.
So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest (2021)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
Stuff of Legend (2020)
> x oven (@ Front of Farmhouse)
The stone oven stands against the southern wall. The fire pit below and the cooking surface above are currently not being used. A stack of firewood sits beside the oven waiting to be used as fuel.
Stupid Kittens (2000)
> x microwave oven (@ Waiting Room)
Too complicated for the likes of you.
Tightest (2002)
> x stove (@ Villa)
Well, with the primitive state of affairs in this villa, it's basically just a big hot box. But it'll do for your purposes.
Tookie's Song (2002)
> x microwave oven (@ Kitchen)
Amana Radarange, 1200 watts. That says it all. Then again, upon a closer inspection, you've never seen a microwave that was this simple. It looks like there's an on/off switch, and the door, but not much else.
Toonesia (1995)
> x stove (@ Inside Bud's Warren)
It's a simple stove, consisting of a metal surface and an on-off switch. A metal chimney above the cooking surface helps get rid of cooking smells.
Tryst of Fate (1995)
> x stove (@ Biscuit Residence)
The coal-black stove is made from cast iron, has a grille on the front, and a flat surface on top for cooking. A flue runs from the back of the stove up through the roof.
Vindaloo (1996)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
Ahh yes many curries have been made at this stove, you look forward to using your trusty stove again for this next one.
The Wand (2017)
> x stove (@ Kitchen)
The round iron stove sits on four carved legs. You see some ashes on the floor below it. The front of the stove is closed.
A copper pot sits on top of the stove. [if pot moved, add:] Next to it a message is scratched on the stove's surface: "Red-orange-green and black-blue-yellow form an Arcane Pair."
Where There's A Will (2005)
> x oven (@ Kitchen)
The oven doesn't get much use.
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