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[becks]

What is the difference is cooking with a fan assisted oven compared to a normal one - I have a fan assisted but always just use the normal setting instead but am now thinking about cooking my Xmas turkey and wondering if I should use fan assisted?

 

Also can anyone remember the website that did the pop up timers?

 

Yesterday I had 2 other questions but now i've forgotten them again!

 

Becks

[thehallfamily]

Hi Becks

 

I have a fan assisted too.....the main difference is that you can supposedly cook at the same temp wherever you put the food in the oven. So where in a gas oven you put your Yorkshires near the top and your meat at the bottom, so as to use the varying temp! In a fan oven you can cook three trays of fairy cakes all at the same time and they should cook evenly! Generally speaking the fan ovens cook quicker than other also. If its pre-packed food....hush ...I do sometimes buy it...it usually has Fan assisted timings on it!

 

Angela

[becks]

Aha I see so in theory I could cook my turkey and roasties in the same oven (i have a double but the second one is very slim and i find it hard to find slim roasing tins) - I guess that means if i don't use fan assisted then the roasties and go on the top where its hotter and the turkey down below!

 

Thanks for that Angela.

 

Becks

[Guest]

Hi Becks I have a fan assisted oven and the conventional in my cooker, but I almost alwasy use the fan assisted. Often you need to check the temperature if you have been used to a conventional one. I find that the fan ovens seem to be abot 10 - 20 degrees hotter. But maybe it has just been my ovens.

 

The conventional oven I find is much better if you are cooking things like fruit cakes (big ones say 9" tin size etc) as they can dry out a bit or the tops or corners can get a bit burnt in the fan oven for some reason.

 

Do give it a try - you'll love it once you get used to it.

[Mrs Frugal]

Mine also cooks hotter so I reduce the temperatures according to my instruction book. This is around 10-20 degrees as Kooringa says and it cooks nice and evenly. I love my fan oven!

 

Wish it was self cleaning though !

[becks]

I wish mine was too - have just had to investigate those companies that come around and clean them for you as mine is distgusting and don't want my mother in law commenting on it at Xmas!!

[Mrs Frugal]

I'm thinking of doing that myself! I started out with good intentions, cleaned the oven every time I used it. Lasted about a week !

[Lesley]

Oh Heck! - I've got mincemeat in the oven - back in a minute

[Mrs Frugal]

THANK YOU LESLEY!! That's twice in the last hour I've almost boiled the steamer with the Christmas puddings in dry!! Good job you reminded me !

[Lesley]

Phew - glad to be of help The mincemeat's fine as well

 

Where were we? - Fan Ovens - I use mine all the time as well. Same difference with heat settings. I also use the convential settings for big cakes

[Guest]

I HAVEN'T GOT A MOTHER IN LAW SO I CAN HAVE A DIRTY OVEN

 

Yee haaaa

 

I had one of those oven cleaning companies come and do mine and my sons a long time ago - different county different oven -and apart from the expense it was brilliant.

 

Have you tried those Orange (as is oranges not the colour) oven shelf cleaners with bags to put the shelves in - they are brilliant. My daughter in law got them from T**co's (can we advertise)? Not one for miles from me now, so grubby shelves. You just squirt the stuff in, leave your shelves in it and the magic orange fairy gets all the stuff off.

 

When you find a company can you let me know if they are nationwide please, as I would love Father Christmas to get it done for me.

[becks]

theovencleaningco.com

http://www.ovenu.co.uk/

 

i think both are nationwide

 

[Guest]

Wow thanks Becks

 

I blinked and you sorted it. Am off to see if they come out to the sticks.

 

Greaaaaaaaaaaaaat

xx

[SarahJo]

I had a fan oven (double) just been next door to use it ... , as we are having our kitchen done. . I used to cook most things at 160 C rather than 180 C, as it was quicker and hotter.

 

My new oven will be SELF CLEANING , and very funky .... BUT ... will prbably take me forever to get used to it. .

 

The fridge freezer arrived today ... don't think theres much room for anything else now .

[Cinnamon]

I wish mine was too - have just had to investigate those companies that come around and clean them for you as mine is distgusting and don't want my mother in law commenting on it at Xmas!!

 

I am having mine done in a week or so by a company called COOKERBURRA.

They are Australians (geddit!) & we have used them before & they do an amazing job,literally dimantling the cooker & taking the bits outside to dip into a vat of cleaner in the back of their van.

[The Dogmother]

My neighbour used them and said that they were fab

[Lesley]

Oh! b****** - the mincemeat! Good job this topic is here!

[Mrs Frugal]

Oh Lesley! My puddings are out of the steamer now so I can't boil them dry any more!!

[Lesley]

Mincemeat is out now as well - supposed to be 6.30

 

Those oven cleaner things - put the shelves in a bag thing - are full of chemicals and very worrying to me. I was at a new 'cleaning without chemicals' product party this morning and people who have used them were saying they would worry about using them again. Worse fumes than bleach apparently.

[Guest]

Oh really, I did not know that, I understood that they were a natural product made from oranges which are acid and act to clean them.

 

Oh Dear

 

Another bloomer.

 

So are these companies that clean or valet your cooker a bad idea.

 

I would love to live in a chemical free world - and do as much as I can to avoid them. Self sufficient in veg, blah blah blah.

 

It is so hard to know what do/buy sometimes isn't it?

[Mrs Frugal]

Certainly is Kooringa! I don't know what to do with my oven so I'm leaving it as it is for the time being. The fat fumes might kill me quicker than the bleach ones will though .

[Guest]

I think that we have been brainwashed into being too obsessed with some areas of cleanliness - probably by the manufacturers.

 

Have you read that book about uses for vinegar?

 

I did some of it when I went to lip reading classes, but never got the book, but you really don't need much else around the house.

 

I wonder if you can use it on ovens?

 

Gone from using them to cleaning them. (ovens) Is there no escape from the Stepford wife programming that is slipped into our heads as soon as we can toddle?

 

(From someone who empties the Eglu litter tray most days, and rakes their 20ft x 10ft pen on a daily basis. You could eat off their floor!)

[Mrs Frugal]

Have you seen my green cleaning recipes topic, Kooringa? I've been using things like bicarb, vinegar, washing soda, borax, soap flakes and soda water for a couple of years now to do all my household cleaning. I love them! Green, clean and my hands don't get cracked and sore like they did when I cleaned with Flash and Bleach!

[Lesley]

Kooringa - I'm only repeating what they were saying - I've never tried them.

I'm just off to post about my latest find re green cleaning.

[Guest]

I am going to have a look at that then, I didn't realise what the post was - so many to read when you are a few weeks old newbie - thousands.

 

Sounds like something that will definite benefit me. Thanks