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Convection Ovens
Convection ovens, also known as fan ovens and fan-assisted ovens, are ovens in which heat is assisted by fans to force the movement of hot air. This allows food to be cooked at lower temperatures and quicker than standard ovens. The air circulation also makes sure there are no "hot spots" during baking, ensuring food bakes evenly. Although convection ovens are a modern invention, the process of circulating hot air to help cook food has been used for centuries by fanning the heat manually.
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How long do you bake macaronie and cheese at 350 in a convection oven?
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Bake macaroni and cheese at 350°, uncovered in the center of the oven for about 45 to 50 minutes, or until macaroni and cheese is set.
Can you stack a convection oven on a microwave oven?
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It is possible to stack appliances as suggested, but there is a caution. Here it is. Both units generate heat, and the microwave actually has air moving through it and exiting at an elevated temperature. The installation instructions for both machines must be reviewed and sufficient space made betweenand around both machines (including behind them) for the appliances to operate without inordinate heating. If the instructions are not clear and/or your have doubts, you will be wise to consult an appliance technical professional. Note that all these machines have definitive installation instructions. Should you ignore warnings and "wing it" with the installation, you risk (at minimum) damaging the unit or units. Additionally, a fire can result, and property damage could be considerable. Lastly, people die ever year from the affects of smoke inhalation because they are trapped (or sleeping) inside a burning structure. You may kill yourself and/or a family member, or a friend or relative who is staying over.
Is cooking a ham in a convection oven faster than a conventional one?
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Carefully. A convection oven is similar to a microwave in its speed of heating. Some fatty materials may crisp or burn.
How are convection ovens different from regular ovens?
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Convection baking presents a more even heating to the entire exposed surface. This facilitates faster heat flow and more even baking, so baking time is reduced and less problems like hot/cold spots in your oven are encountered. If you bake with multiple racks, convection helps even more because the radiant heat from the elements isn't blocked by the first pan it contacts.
How to Adapt Your Own Cooking Recipes to Microwave Ovens?
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Microwave ovens cook at a faster rate than conventional cooking methods (such as an oven). However, this does not mean that you just put a whole chicken inside the microwave oven and expect it to be cooked within 15 minutes. You will probably end up having burnt skin and undercooked meat or the food may be soggy. Cooking in the microwave oven requires you to understand the difference between your conventional oven and your microwave oven. For one, conventional oven uses convection to cook your food (this means the heat is circulated all throughout the oven) whereas microwave oven uses microwave heat to specifically heat surfaces that contains water to cook the food. Here are some ways to adapt your conventional cooking method on to the microwave oven.
• Find a conventional recipe that is similar to the recipe that you want to adapt in terms of ingredients and proportion.
• Reduce the amount of liquid to about one-fourth if you cook it the usual way in the microwave since there is less evaporation in microwave cooking.
• Use no salt, or less salt. The microwave oven emphasizes the salt content in food, so recipes containing a conventional amount of salt will taste twice as salty.
• Reduce the amount of seasoning since microwave cooking enhances other herbs and spices.
• Use deeper bowls or dishes when you cook in the microwave because the volume may increase temporarily. This is attributed to the fact that there is low evaporation in the microwave.
• Foods containing liquid, sugar and fat cook faster; so try reducing the cooking time by 1/4 of conventional cooking and then gradually increase until you obtain the desired result.
Unfortunately, there is no fast rule for converting recipes. There is a little bit of experimentation involved in converting each recipe you attempt. Don't be discouraged if your first big microwave meal did not turn out the way you expected it to be, just try again and you will be able to eventually master the art of cooking in the microwave in no time. Have fun!
How does convection in a microwave work?
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A microwave oven takes advantage of the ability of microwave energy to act on atoms at a molecular level. Take a metal box with a door on it, put in some control electronics, a magnetron (the microwave generating device) and a high voltage power source and you're in business.
The user puts an item or items into the cavity (that volume of space where the cooking occurs), and then punches up time and power (often by using preset selections). The high voltage power source powers up the magnetron, and this vacuum tube (a cavity oscillator with its integral magnets) generates microwave energy at about 2.45 GHz. The electromagnetic energy is coupled out of the magnetron, through a waveguide, and into the cavity.
In the oven's cavity, the electromagnetic energy acts on electrically polarized molecules in the food. It causes these molecules to move in an attempt to align themselves with the incoming radiation. As the electromagnetic radiation passes molecules, they attempt to align themselves with the magnetic field of that radiation. But the molecules must constantly move to align themselves with the passing magnetic field. The high frequency energy imparts high frequency "torque" to the molecules, and they try to "flip around" in the passing magnetic field. Those microwaves have a fair ability to penetrate the food, so the items being cooked get heated more evenly than in conventional cooking.
The energy that the microwaves give molecules is expressed as heat. Water molecules have a relatively high dipole moment, and they react more dramatically to the microwave energy than do the molecules in fats or oils; it is the water molecules in foods that convert the larger part of the microwave energy into thermal energy. The technical term for this kind of thermal stimulation is dielectric heating, but we just use the term "nuc" to describe what we're doing with the oven.
How a Microwave Works
Microwaves are radio waves that are roughly around 2,500 megahertz, or 2 gigahertz.
These radio waves have the intresting property of being absorbed by water, fats, and sugars. This absorption converts them directly into atomic motion, thus producing heat. It is not the movement of the microwaves themselves that produces heat, but rather the movement of the excited particles in the food. These waves are also not absorbed by most plastics, ceramics, or glass, meaning that objects made from these materials are 'microwave safe'. Metal, on the other hand, will reflect microwaves, causing sparks when one wave bounces into another. A microwave oven will also produce sparks if turned on when nothing is inside the microwave, as the waves themselves will bounce off of each other, having nowhere else to go.
The magnetron inside a microwave oven uses magnetic energy to create microwaves. Newer microwaves with inverter technology use circuit boards instead of the old transformer/capacitor style microwaves, which makes the microwave more energy efficient, but the overall function is the same.
Unlike a conventional oven, where the heat has to miagrate through the food, the heat produced by a microwave is able to cook food evenly, as all of the particles in the food are excited simulaneously.
Microwaves do have limits. They may not penerate between thick pieces of food. Since the microwaves are emitted from only one side of the oven, it is recommended that you use a microwave which contains a spinning plate, to ensure that food cooks evenly. Furthermore, the air in the microwave remains room temperature, so there is no way to form a crust. This is why microwaveable items sometimes come with a cardboard sleeve. The foil in the sleeve reacts to the microwaves by becoming very hot, causing exterior heat on top of the pastry, thus forming a crust.
Also, the reason microwaves do not escape out of the little holes in the oven is that microwaves have a wavelength of 12.4 centimeters. Any conducting surface that has holes smaller than that will reflect the microwaves, rather than allowing them to pass through. This allows you to view the items in the microwave while still remaining relatively safe from any potential exposure to radiation.
Despite some myths, there are no known health risks from eating microwaved food. Microwave ovens use non-ionizing radiation, which does not mutate your DNA and is not as dangerous as ionizing radiation, such as that found in X-ray machines. However, exposure to microwaves can still burn tissue by heating up the water, fats, and sugars naturally found in human tissues. The eyes are particularly susceptible. For this reason, the FDA recommends that you do not stand directly against your microwave while it is in operation. You should also regularly check your microwave for damage, which may lead to microwave leakage.
What is the difference between a convection oven and toaster oven?
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hes lying to u!!!!!!!!!!!!! its magic ok magic
lol who Eva wrote that is totally right a toaster oven is a small oven when a toaster only ccooks toast!
How long does a 10 lb turkey take to cook in a convection oven?
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Six to 10 pounds: 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 hours.
10 to 14 pounds: 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 hours.
(that's at 300 degrees)
Can aluminum tray used for convection?
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yes but only in convection mode setting..NOT to be used in microwave setting
How long do you cook 10 lbs of brisket in a convection oven?
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It depends on what you want to cook with Bratwurst. If it is Bratwurst Casserole, you would need two pounds of bratwurst, three potatoes cut into quarter, an onion, a small can cream of mushroom soup, ½ can water and ½ can milk. Start by slicing the sausages into several portions and frying the sausages. Next remove the oil. Now, pour ½ teaspoon of vegetable oil in a casserole and place the potatoes, onions and sausages. Next, pour some milk, water and cream of mushroom soup in the casserole. Also you can season with pepper and salt. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. It normally takes one and a half hour to get cooked.
Can you use Pyrex glass bowls in a convection oven?
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Yes, Pyrex can be used in the microwave as well as conventional oven.
Can you use foil in convection oven?
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Yes, you can use foil in convection ovens and regular ovens alike (despite the different names all ovens are convection ovens, ovens labeled convection ovens are just faster). However, NEVER and I mean NEVER use foil in a microwave. Then it will go BOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!
My Oster convection oven manual has a safety warning regarding foil: "Do not cover the oven tray with metal foil. This will cause overheating of the appliance."
Should chicken breast be covered while baking in the oven?
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You should always cover chicken when baking so the moisture stays in the pan and the chicken is less likely to dry out. Adding some butter on top of the chicken and baking on a higher temp (like 400) for the last 10 min will ensure that you still get that great crispy skin, without the side effects of dry chicken.
How do you cook chicken legs in a convection oven?
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You should cook chicken legs in an convection oven for between 20 and 30 minutes depending on the temperature. The air movement of convection ovens greatly reduces cooking times when compared to traditional ovens.
How long to cook green bean casserole in a convection oven?
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I would say about 3 hours if your baking it at 275 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a convection oven what is actually convecting?
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What is actually "convecting" in a convection oven is the air. A fan moves the air around in a convection oven, and the air picks up heat from the heating element and "convects" it to the food being cooked. The heat is then transferred out of the air and into the food.
How long is turkey legs cooking time in a Convection Oven?
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You should cook chicken legs in an convection oven for between 20 and 30 minutes depending on the temperature. The air movement of convection ovens greatly reduces cooking times when compared to traditional ovens.
Can you wrap baked potatoes in foil in a convection oven?
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Let the manufacturer make the call. No one on this board is as qualified when it comes to offering advice like that. Refer to the user's guide and see what it says. If it isn't about, go online and see if it's available as a .pdf document at the manufacturer's web site. (Free download!) Maybe call a place where they sell the unit and try to "borrow" one for a few minutes. Failing that, order one. If one has spent the money for a more capable appliance like a microwave convection oven, why not find, locate and read, or order the owner's manual? There are a lot of things possible with these machines, and the folks who designed and engineered the unit will provide the low down on how best to use it.
How do you bake a cake in a samsung convection oven?
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Lower the temp by 25 degrees and bake for the same length of time as usual.
Is it important to have a turntable in a microwave convection oven?
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Yes and no. It cook evenly food needs rotated, a turntable will eliminate the need of rotating 1/2 way through the cooking. I've had both, and I vastly prefer the one with turntable. A major problem with microwaved food is heating unevenly. A turntable virtually eliminates the problem. Also- put a saucer in your microwave, and put the plate or microwave dish on top of it. It will heat more quickly, and more evenly, because the waves can enter the food from the bottom as well as top & sides.
How long do you cook hamburgers in a convection oven?
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I toast mine on Broil, and watch very closely to keep from burning.
Baking pork chops in convection oven how long at what temp?
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Pork chops should be baked for 45 minutes, in a convection oven, at a temperature of 325°. Pork chops should not be considered done until the internal temperature is a minimum of 165°.
