This always kind of bugged me. A recipe calls for 350, I tend to use convection whenever I can (except for baking delicate things that could be negatively affected by convection) and my oven automatically knocks off 25 degrees. Does anyone else have this feature on their ovens? Do you think that those 25 degrees make or break what's baking in your oven? For a long time, when I see a recipe calls for a certain temperature, I would like to do that temp with convection to be more efficient, since hot air is always touching my food and rotating around it. I can tell you that 550 without convection and 550 with convection (so technically 525 I guess) does not affect my pizzas at all. At least not anything noticeable.
Barriehie
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The 25 degree drop is to keep the cooking time the same as a non convection oven.
Wow, I just did a test. I set my oven to 350 convection, which means it should be at 325.
My oven is that uncalibrated! ? It's only a few years old. Or did I screw this up somehow?
I did a second test at 350 for just the regular baking setting.
My oven is that uncalibrated! ? It's only a few years old. Or did I screw this up somehow?
I did a second test at 350 for just the regular baking setting.
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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I doubt it.
Oven calibration is a wild west.
Thermometers and discretion rules the cooking world.
Oven calibration is a wild west.
Thermometers and discretion rules the cooking world.
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Mind you- how long did you allow it to heat for?
That pizza stone will suck the life out of anything.
That pizza stone will suck the life out of anything.
Yes, I just did another convection test without the stone and it read perfectly accurate.
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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The oven did or thr thermometer did?
Barriehie
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Yes, I would say test it w/out the stone. If with the stone I'd let it heat a minimum of 40 minutes.
I know nothing about convection ovens, but my bro bought one for my parents a few years ago. He was a professional chef, and -25 was his advice.