fan assisted oven

I'm going to have new cooker with a fan assisted oven. Has anyone got any advice on how to use the oven? Thanks

 

Just be aware they cook a little faster and hotter so if a recipe has instructions to cook at 190 degrees with the Fan oven cook at 180 degrees but you'll soon get the hang of it.

 

Thank you @lolimac

 

Hi,

We've had a "Stoves" fan assisted oven for about 18 years Logan; Bron made the change over to it without really noticing; I think the only difference is more even heat spread within the oven.

I agree with lolimac; you'll soon get used to it. Good luck.

Out of interest though and hopefully a long way off for you we've just replaced the oven element for the first time; it took all of five minutes and from "espares" we had a choice of elements; original or copy; we bought original at around £33 it being worth it. Videos on YouTube show how to replace the element.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

Usually convection ovens come with three racks instead of two because the fan keeps the heat stirred and even. You can bake three trays of cookies without having to switch them about partway through.

Mine bakes a LOT faster than the conventional oven mode. I have a choice whether to use the fan function or not so I change the mode according to my recipes.

 

Thank you Colin, it's just that I've got to do the Christmas Turkey in it.I hope that the oven element doesn't need changing after 18 years.

Thanks @shiney it's a Zanusi electric cooker. The old one is a Belling Classic had it for 30 years.

Thanks @CanadianLori I'll keep that in mind.

I did watch one YouTube video about them and the woman said that the food cooks better with lighter coloured cooking trays.Is that true?

 

We've had our fan assisted one for 35 yrs now and haven't had any problem at all . It does cook faster though as others have already said. We also have an ordinary one too, but tend to use the fan more. Never had to replace any part.....hope I'm not jinxing things now
It's much easier nowadays as they usually include timings for fan assisted ones on most cooking instructions but when we first got ours we had to work it out for ourselves.

Never bothered about what coloured trays are used.

 

Thanks @Upsydaisy I'll keep that in mind. It's going to be a double oven, the top one is a grill and oven. Never used the grill at all because if it gets dirty when i have to use the oven side of it, it starts to smoke and fill the room with it then sets off the smoke alarm.

 

I don't think the light coloured cookware makes much difference. Pyrex (clear) does tend to cook a little faster in the oven. The only place where the colour of cookware really makes a difference in a sunoven and then it is that the darker, the better.

 

my oven has a fan inside it, to be used or not used to my choosing . It also came with an instruction book, where when the choosing of the "confection" oven type---that is when the fan goes on, how that changes the "normal recipe" temp. I usually do not use the fan part. I would say, 99% of the time I don't .

 

Thanks @CanadianLori and @redstar

 

one thing I do use in my oven is the timer. I can set it to the degrees I want, and what time to go on, and off. So I can have a frozen chicken in the oven in the morning, seasoned, in a dish. etc. come home from work and its done roasted. Or baked potatoes. etc. I always start any meat out frozen solid. it works, no one dead yet.

 

I seldom use my electric fan assisted oven. Just for one, I find the halogen oven OK. No offence to members but. I'd advise against lowering the cooking temperature. Instead reduce the cooking time a bit.

A bit of advice given to Val & I by the chap who used to clean our oven, due to our physical problems. He said that the oven should be allowed to cool down naturally. So when done cooking, leave the oven door open a bit. Just a tip.

 

Thanks for the tip @Mike Allen I'll keep that in mind. I don't go by the time that recipes say,i go by what it looks like. I only use the big oven for cooking Turkey and doing pastry. I use the top oven for the other things because the larger one will be too much.