Cooking with a an oven
If you are use to cooking with a
conventional oven, you will fin a
number of ifference to cooking with a
fan oven, which will require a ifferent
approach:
There are no zones of heat in a
fan oven, the convection fan at the
back of the oven ensures an even
temperature throughout the oven; this
makes it i eal for batch baking - eg;
when planning a party or stocking the
freezer, as all item will be cooke
within the same length of time.
Cooking times will generally be shorter
- by between 5 - 10 minutes per hour -
than those times given in recipe books
for conventional cooking.
We recommen preheating the oven
for frozen of chille foo , an also for
soufflés, batter mixtures an yeast
mixtures. Preheat the oven until the
in icator light switches off for the first
time, this will take between 5 to 15
minutes epen ing on the temperature
selecte .
There is no flavour transference in a
fan oven, which means you can cook
strong smelling foo s such as fish, at
the same time as mil foo s - eg; milk
pu ings.
Foo s are cooke at a lower
temperature (between 10˚C an 20˚C
lower) than a conventional oven, so
conventional recipe temperatures may
have to be re uce .
De rosting and cooling
To de rost frozen foo s, turn the
oven control to the efrost position,
place the foo in the centre of the oven
an close the oor.
To cool foo s after cooking, prior to
refrigerating or freezing, turn the oven
control to the efrost position, an
open the oor.
Be sa e
Do not efrost stuffe poultry using this
metho . Do not efrost larger joints of
meat an poultry over 2kg / 4lb using
this metho .
Never place uncooke foo for
efrosting next to cooke foo which
is to be coole , as this can lea to
cross contamination.
Defrosting meat, poultry an fish can
be accelerate using this metho , but
make sure they are completely thawe
before cooking thoroughly.
Place meat an poultry on a trivet in a
meat tin.
De rosting times
Small or thin pieces of frozen fish or
meat - eg; fish fillets, prawns an mince,
will take approximately 1 - 2 hours.
Placing the foo in a single layer will
re uce the thawing time.
A me ium size casserole or stew will
take approximately 3 - 4 hours.
A 11⁄2kg / 3lb oven rea y chicken will
take approximately 5 hours - remove
the giblets as soon as possible.
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Using the Main Oven