An oven is a small but powerful tool in the kitchen. Looking at its small size, it doesn't seem like it can do a lot, but just about anyone who has worked with a kitchen oven will tell you the many wonders it does to home cooking. Casseroles, beef, chicken and pork, bread and cake, desserts-you name it, and the oven can cook it. A good kitchen oven works on most types of cuisine regardless of whether you're from Haiti or Timbuktu .