Exhibit 5


                [Letterhead of Blank Rome Tenzer Greenblatt LLP]


                                                                    May 23, 2002


TurboChef Technologies, Inc.
10500 Metric Drive - Suite 128
Dallas, Texas 75243

         Re:  TurboChef Technologies, Inc. (the "Company")
              Registration Statement on Form S-3 (333-82518)

Dear Sir/Madam:

     We refer to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-82518)
including any amendment thereto (the "Registration Statement"), filed by the
Company, a Delaware corporation (the "Registrant"), with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"),
with respect to the registration under the Act of an aggregate of 4,509,120
shares of common stock, par value $.001 per share of the Company (the "Common
Stock") including (i) up to 2,475,866 shares (the "Common Shares") of Common
Stock currently outstanding, (ii) up to 1,186,269 shares (the "Warrant Shares")
of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding warrants, (iii) up to
793,651 shares (the "Preferred Conversion Shares") issuable upon conversion of
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock ("Series C Preferred"), and (iv) up to
53,334 shares (the "Preferred Dividend Shares") estimated to be issuable in lieu
of cash as payment of further accrued dividends on the Series C Preferred for
the period from April 21, 2002 through April 20, 2003.

     In our capacity as counsel to the Registrant, we have reviewed copies of
the resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Registrant and such other
documents and records as we have deemed relevant and necessary as a basis for
the opinions expressed below. We have assumed the genuineness of all signatures
and the conformity to original documents of all copies submitted to us as
photostatic or conformed copies. As to various questions of fact material to our
opinions we have relied upon statements or certificates of public officials and
representations of the Registrant and others.

     Based upon the foregoing, it is our opinion that:

     (a) the Common Shares are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable;

     (b) the Warrant Shares, when paid for and issued upon exercise of the
Warrants, in accordance with the respective terms thereof, will be validly
issued and fully paid and non-assessable;



     (c) the Preferred Conversion Shares, when issued upon the conversion of the
Series C Preferred in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of
Designation of the Series C Preferred (the "Designation"), will be validly
issued and fully paid and non-assessable; and

     (d) the Preferred Dividend Shares, when issued as payment of dividends on
the Series C Preferred in accordance with the terms of the Designation, will be
validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable.

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an Exhibit to the
Registration Statement. We also hereby consent to the use of our name as your
counsel under "Legal Matters" in the prospectus constituting part of the
Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not concede that we come
within the categories of persons whose consent is required by the Act or the
General Rules and Regulations promulgated thereunder.

                                            Very truly yours,

                                    /s/ BLANK ROME TENZER GREENBLATT LLP

                                        BLANK ROME TENZER GREENBLATT LLP