Domestic infra-red radiation oven

In a domestic oven having a generally parallelepiped oven space with walls of a material which is highly reflective of infra-red radiation, one side wall being a door, and an upper and a lower radiation source arranged at top and bottom walls repectively of the oven, the radiation sources emitting infra-red radiation and a supporting surface substantially transparent to the radiation and arranged between the two radiation sources and adapted to support an oven load, the upper radiation source being arranged to emit short-wave IR-radiation with a peak performance in a wavelength range of 1.0 to 1.4 .mu.m, the improvement wherein the upper radiation source is comprised of at least one straight rod-shaped quartz-tube radiation element having an active length and being in a plane parallel to the top wall of the oven, the oven having a vertical distance from the rod-shaped radiation element to said supporting surface that is 40-70% of the active length of the radiation element.