Wall-mounted type microwave oven

A wall-mountable cooking apparatus comprising:

• an oven body for mounting in a cooking area;
• a cooking chamber provided in the oven body for containing food therein;
• a heating unit which cooks the food;
• an exhaust flow path provided in the oven body to exhaust air existing under the oven body to the outside of the cooking area;
• a ventilation flow path which ventilates air in the cooking chamber to the cooking area;
• a communicating flow path which communicates between the exhaust flow path and the ventilation flow path;
• and
• a path-converting device which selectively changes a discharging direction of air exhausted from the cooking chamber toward one of the ventilation flow path and the exhaust flow path.

A wall-mountable cooking apparatus comprising:

• an oven body for mounting in a cooking area;
• a cooking chamber for containing food therein;
• a heating unit which cooks the food;
• a rear exhaust flow path to exhaust air existing under the oven body to the outside of the cooking area;
• a front ventilation flow path which ventilates air in the cooking chamber to the cooking area;
• and
• a path-converting unit which selectively changes a discharging direction of air exhausted from the cooking chamber toward one of the front ventilation flow path and the rear exhaust flow path.