<p>A cooking device having a box-like cooking chamber (10) for receiving a material (38) to be cooked, and hot air producing device (18) having an electric heater heat source (12) and a blower (15). Hot air produced by the hot air producing device (18) is impinged on the material (38) to be cooked as a high-speed jet flow from nozzle holes (37) provided in a ceiling plate (33) of the cooking chamber (10). The hot air after the impingement is sucked by the blower (15) from hot air suction openings (42, 43) provided in left and right sidewall lower sections of the cooking chamber (10) and is returned for recirculation to the hot air producing device (18).</p>