Convection Ovens

[vgnwtch]

When we moved back to Britain at the end of March, we moved into my grandmother's house (she's in a nursing home). This is fab, and has a relatively new electric convection oven - about 3 years old. Now, it being summer, I've not done a lot of baking, but we're coming into the early start of autumn, and I'm likely to be baking

Comments

[darkhorse43]

Yes there is a difference. My parent's convection oven has a conversion thing where you put in the normal time and temperature and tell it convection and it lowers both the time and temperature. There's probably resources online somewhere if your oven doesn't have the conversion.

[velma_007]

the power of google brings me this:

http://www.broilking.com/convection_cooking.html

[dancingwolfgrrl]

This also has some hints. They're definitely not the same! Convection ovens are much more efficent and so everything will cook faster.

[vgnwtch]

Thank you both - that's excellent! :)

[velma_007]

cooking in a convection oven would dramatically cut down on the electric bill. good idea! I need to get one!

[oneofthemnow]

Yeah, my roommates and I baked a cake in a regular toaster oven and the same cake in my convection toaster oven and the one in my toaster cooked much faster.

[anonymous]

My convection oven instruction booklet says to reduce the temperature by at least 25F, and I also usually decrease the time by about 1/5th the suggested time. I don't bake enough to know the oven really well, but reducing the temperature by 25F always helps me.

[greenanimal]

How did this get posted? Posts I write have to be specifically about vegan RECIPES to get posted.

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[redclock]

it would seem that although this post isn't about a RECIPE, it is about cooking. Assuming the cake was vegan, this question was about vegan cooking/baking, which just so happens to be the title of this community. Besides, what good is a recipe if the outcome is burn.

[greenanimal]

My point was that my posts like this get denied.