Well, I couldn't wait to use it and the kids suggested chocolate chip cookies as a good test. haha
A true convection oven has a third element and a fan that circulates the air around for uniform cooking. Plus it's supposed to cook faster and at a slightly lower temp.
It said I could cook 3 cookie sheets of cookies at one time, so I did. I have never gotten 2 sheets of cookies to cook well unless I switched their places in the oven halfway through the cooking time and still it wasn't that great... not bad though.
I baked with the convection oven temp 25 degrees F lower than what the recipe called for.... I still needed to cook the full 10 minutes the recipe asked for. The 3 sheets of cookies though came out equally cooked and equally browned. I was really examining for a difference and I could not detect any. The bottoms of the cookies were beautiful as well. I did use my Silpats, which work really well with cookies. I baked thirty six 3 1/2 inch cookies in thirty minutes. That included mixing of the dough, baking and cooling for 2 minutes before removing from pan to cooling rack. Normally, that would have been 60 minutes of baking alone for cookies that size. My neighbors let me throw the old oven on their "dump trailer", so I took a plate of warm cookies over to them and they couldn't believe how fast they had come out of the oven.
"King's Crown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Well, I couldn't wait to use it and the kids suggested chocolate chip cookies as a good test. haha
A true convection oven has a third element and a fan that circulates the air around for uniform cooking. Plus it's supposed to cook faster and at a slightly lower temp.
It said I could cook 3 cookie sheets of cookies at one time, so I did. I have never gotten 2 sheets of cookies to cook well unless I switched their places in the oven halfway through the cooking time and still it wasn't that great... not bad though.
I baked with the convection oven temp 25 degrees F lower than what the recipe called for.... I still needed to cook the full 10 minutes the recipe asked for. The 3 sheets of cookies though came out equally cooked and equally browned. I was really examining for a difference and I could not detect any. The bottoms of the cookies were beautiful as well. I did use my Silpats, which work really well with cookies. I baked thirty six 3 1/2 inch cookies in thirty minutes. That included mixing of the dough, baking and cooling for 2 minutes before removing from pan to cooling rack. Normally, that would have been 60 minutes of baking alone for cookies that size. My neighbors let me throw the old oven on their "dump trailer", so I took a plate of warm cookies over to them and they couldn't believe how fast they had come out of the oven.
I'm impressed!
You do realise that you will now become a cookie machine <G>
"Ophelia" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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"King's Crown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Well, I couldn't wait to use it and the kids suggested chocolate chip cookies as a good test. haha
A true convection oven has a third element and a fan that circulates the air around for uniform cooking. Plus it's supposed to cook faster and at a slightly lower temp.
It said I could cook 3 cookie sheets of cookies at one time, so I did. I have never gotten 2 sheets of cookies to cook well unless I switched their places in the oven halfway through the cooking time and still it wasn't that great... not bad though.
I baked with the convection oven temp 25 degrees F lower than what the recipe called for.... I still needed to cook the full 10 minutes the recipe asked for. The 3 sheets of cookies though came out equally cooked and equally browned. I was really examining for a difference and I could not detect any. The bottoms of the cookies were beautiful as well. I did use my Silpats, which work really well with cookies. I baked thirty six 3 1/2 inch cookies in thirty minutes. That included mixing of the dough, baking and cooling for 2 minutes before removing from pan to cooling rack. Normally, that would have been 60 minutes of baking alone for cookies that size. My neighbors let me throw the old oven on their "dump trailer", so I took a plate of warm cookies over to them and they couldn't believe how fast they had come out of the oven.
I'm impressed!
You do realise that you will now become a cookie machine <G>
I have been accused of being the "Cookie Queen" during the holidays. My crown was tipping to the side as I was trying to bake cookie with an oven that had a mind of it's own when it came to what temperature it wanted to be.
