We are looking for advice on the best convection oven to buy in the UK for baking. We need EVEN temperature distribution for best results with cakes. Any information, experiences or advice will be welcome! Thank You.
There's a thread on here from 2/15/05 that basically says convection ovens aren't great for cakes.... I'd read that thread before buying anything if I were you.
A snippet: Well, we finally cooked a good cake in our convection oven, but it took a lot longer than we wanted.
The magic formula:
200 degrees, low fan speed, rotate once, cook for 1 hour and 30 minutesIt's really enlightening to me to hear all of the bakers that don't use convection ovens for their cakes.
Sounds like there is room for a midle ground, between a still air conventional oven and the hurricane-like convection ovens I have seen. Ultimately, I suppose, the ideal would be a masonry oven slowly heated to the correct temperature, and mantained there. Lots of mass, even heat, no air currents.
Dave
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