the chamber a so called flicker flame including a gas fed burner 47 see fig2 is located below the wood chamber 41 and serves to throw a flickering gas light through the grille 42 which illuminates the back of the oven interior and maintains fire in the wood 42 in the wood chamber 41 fig1 and 12 show respective elevational sectional side views and end views of the flicker flame burner 47 which has a gas inlet 48 for drawing air into the burner which has a plurality of holes 51 that issue a row of small gas streams 52 vermiculite granules 49 are located in the path of the gas stream to disperse the gas in fig8 it may be seen that bottom part of the oven chamber 26 forms a water chamber 53 adapted to contain a pool of water supplied through a water line 54 with a water cock 56 during cooking meat juices and meat fat collect in the water chamber 53 wherein the fat floats as a layer or a pool of meat juices and water forming a gravy 62 which can be topped off by pushing down a spring loaded valve 58 as shown in fig8 by pushing down the valve 58 holes 59 in the valve stem 60 align with holes 61 in the stand pipe 62a so that the gravy 62 can be drawn from a gravy drain hole 63 into a juice pan fig1 after the gravy is removed the liquid grease 57 can be drawn off into a grease trap 66 fig2 and discarded the spits 11 are advantageously equipped with slidable meat grippers 67 as shown in fig1.