Fan assisted

[jimothy]

We've just had a new kitchen fitted with a nice fan-assisted electric oven to replace our old gas cooker. So far, everything is cooking too quickly (burnt spuds with a roast, yum!).

Whats the best way to stop things burning, lower temperature or shorter time? I think I remember reading somewhere that with fan assisted ovens you should reduce the temp by 20 degrees. Is this correct?

Thanks



Ovenheads, cooking matters!

[scout]

Hello Jim.
Electric Fan Ovens, are a pain! I have one, and it is best to drop the temp a bit.

EG If It says 180, drop to 160, but its just trial and error, I will say this though, when cooking Yorkshire Puds, I have the oven at top temp, and they come out brill, at half the time of normal cooking!!

[neilsfishing]

Without going in to thermals a good fan oven distributes the heat far moor affectively you don’t get the top and bottom problem you get with gas in a gas oven, you can get 50 deg difference from bottom to top on standard gas as you mentioned reduce the temp and watch the dish as it cooks
Neil

[grumbledoak]

20 degrees less sounds about right.

Also, get a proper oven thermometer rather than relying on the dial- they aren't normally accurate.

HTH

[Romanymagic]

Also once you get used to a good fan assisted oven, you can adjust your cooking around it i.e. say you have 230 degree's on the dial means you are getting 250 degree's so nearly at professional kitchen's cooking temperatures.

[H_Kan]

Generally with frozen food they say to reduce the length of cooking for fan assisted ovens, so I'd imagine it would be the same for normal food.

[jimothy]

Sounds like 20 degress lower is a good rule of thumb, but I guess experimenting can't hurt.

What a shame, having to cook loads of food to work out the oven.

[dickymint]

As above, lower the temp. I think that gas, or non fan assisted electric ovens, are better bacause of the fact the oven temp varies from top to bottom. There are times when you want differeing temps at the same time.

[rsv gone!]

I always knock about 30 degrees off

[H_Kan]

dickymint said:

As above, lower the temp. I think that gas, or non fan assisted electric ovens, are better bacause of the fact the oven temp varies from top to bottom. There are times when you want differeing temps at the same time.

Most fan assisted electric ones have the option to run without the fan aswell.

[dickymint]

H_Kan said:

dickymint said:

As above, lower the temp. I think that gas, or non fan assisted electric ovens, are better bacause of the fact the oven temp varies from top to bottom. There are times when you want differeing temps at the same time.

Most fan assisted electric ones have the option to run without the fan aswell.

Mine has that option - took the connections off the fan