Cooking appliance

A cooking appliance having a heating element assembly to provide heat to a cooking cavity of the cooking appliance, the heating element assembly including:

• a first heating element, a second heating element, and a third heating element;
• the first and third heating elements at least partially surrounding an area within which the second heating element is located;
• each of the heating elements including a first terminal end portion, a second terminal end portion, and a length extending between the first and second terminal end portions of the respective heating elements;
• the length of each of the first and third heating elements including:
• a respective first length portion extending along a single associated circular arcuate path between the respective first terminal end portion and a respective end portion, the single associated circular arcuate path extending from the respective first terminal end portion all the way to the respective end portion, and
• a respective second length portion extending along a single associated circular arcuate path between the respective second terminal end portion and the respective end portion the single associated circular arcuate path extending all the way from the respective second terminal end portion to the respective end portion, wherein:
• the respective end portion being located between so as to connect respective first and second length portions;
• and
• the single associated circular arcuate path of the respective first length portion and the single associated circular arcuate path of the respective second length portion follow a curvature of the circular second heating element and the respective first length portion is located adjacent and generally parallel to the respective second length portion.