Cooking system

A plurality of burners for directing heat to a central enclosure having vertical heat transfer walls, comprising:

• a fuel supply common manifold extending to substantially surround said enclosure;
• a plurality of spaced orifices on the manifold for discharging a plurality of fuel jets in such directions that adjacent jets and the air entrained therein interact to cause turbulent mixing of said adjacent jets and entrained air to form a combustible mixture;
• combustion means for burning said combustible mixture;
• and
• a plurality of targets each separately mounted on said common manifold and positioned at least partially in the path of two or more of said plurality of jets to cause further turbulent mixing of the combustible mixture, each of said targets being spaced from the orifices emitting said two or more jets such that the gas jets therefrom substantially converge with each other before reaching said target, said target also being positioned to deflect the mixture inward toward a combustion zone adjacent one of the vertical walls of the enclosure and to reflect and radiate heat from the combustion zone through the one vertical wall, whereby a substantial portion of heat from each combustion zone is transferred through the vertical walls to heat the common enclosure surrounded by the fuel manifold.