Questions tagged [oven]

Questions about selecting, operating, and maintaining conventional and convection ovens.

This tag is not a catch-all tag for any recipe or technique that uses an oven. Please read the full wiki text before adding it.

Topics accepted within this tag:

  • Conventional ovens, both gas and electric, which use one or more heating elements to cook by heat radiation. If you don't specify , we will assume you mean electric.

  • Convection ovens, which heat food using fan-forced hot air. Include the tag.

  • Wood fired ovens, which are heated using flames from burning wood. Include the tag.

  • Toaster ovens, which are technically a form of conventional oven. Please be aware that toaster ovens vary drastically in their characteristics and capabilities, so be as specific as possible when asking about these.

Topics not accepted within this tag:

  • Microwave ovens; use the tag for questions on microwaves or microwave cooking.

  • Questions about recipes or cooking techniques that happen to use an oven. This tag is about the equipment itself; if your question is not actually about selecting, operating, or maintaining an oven, then use the appropriate technique tag such as or .

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Oven management in restaurants

Background: I'm an ERP consultant and one of my customers is a metal works factory in which they have an oven. This is an expensive piece of hardware so they have only one oven. It is important to schedule the jobs that use the oven in order to use…
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Should a gas Aga be left on when not in use?

We've recently moved into a house with an Aga GC3 cooker; though have no experience with this type of oven. Reading up on Agas, people talk about them being left on all the time; though this seems like a waste of gas for our usage (1 cooked meal…
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How long to preheat oven?

This is a silly question, but my wife will turn on the oven to preheat while she prepares stuff, but sometimes it takes her 15 minutes to 45 minutes before she puts things into the oven. Generally, how long does one need to preheat the oven before…
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Are there any guidelines for converting cooking recipes from Regular Ovens to Convection?

I was looking to buy a Convection Oven and wanted to know if there are any general differences in baking methods between the two.
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Why does my oven take so long to heat up?

My modern whirlpool electric oven take forever (about 20min) to heat-up to 200C. This seems similar to other electric ovens I have used in Ireland. Hoever, when visiting my mother in law in the USA, I noticed that her very old(20+ years) electric…
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Is this some kind of warming oven?

These are two chef's kitchens. In both images, there is a small oven(?) on the stainless steel shelf above the main oven. In each image, it appears to be the same device. Any idea what that is and who makes them? Looks to be some sort of warming…
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When a recipe calls to reduce oven temperature mid-cooking, should you leave the door ajar until the oven reaches said temperature?

I have always wondered this. Many recipes will ask for 15-10 minutes browning at 450f and then continue cooking at 350f. But should you leave the door open until the oven hits said lower temperature, or just reduce the temperature mid cooking and be…
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What exactly is a "fast" oven?

If an oven is described as "fast", what does that mean? I have always assumed it simply means a hotter oven, where the temperature on the dial is lower than the temperature inside the oven. But a fan-forced oven also cooks faster than a conventional…
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Why do some instructions tell you how long to preheat an oven for?

Why is it that on some directions it says something like "preheat an oven for 400 for 10 minutes"? Is it not enough to preheat the oven until the oven signals (i.e. usually with a beep) that the desired temperature has been reached? Are there any…
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Is it safe to eat veggies that were chopped on bloody cutting board and then cooked?

I made steak last night, and my girlfriend just chopped up some broccoli on the cutting board I used to prepare the meat, without washing it. She plans to cook the broccoli in the oven, which she said will cook off any bacteria that would have been…
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Does oven size affect baking?

My bread sometimes burn and I've checked my thermometer and it works fine. Does the oven size affect the baking?
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How long should I wait for my gas oven to heat up?

My cheap rental apartment comes with a (presumably cheap) gas oven. Although this oven has a temperature control, it lacks any sort of indicator to tell me when it has reached the desired temperature. I have reason to believe this oven is relatively…
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Gratin without a broiler

I've been wondering, is there a way to gratin food (as in cheese gratin) in a gas oven without a broiler? I'm used to cook using my parents' big electric oven, which had coils in the upper and lower part, so I was able to heat from below as well as…
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I have clay tajines from Morocco that I've always cooked in and suddenly new stove is smoking?

When I lived in Morocco I purchased small clay tajines to bring home and I've been cooking in them ever since; several years. Mostly on convection ovens, and once on a flat surface stove. I've just bought a house with a flat surface electric stove…
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Oven is leaking steam out the back

Most times when I cook, steam leaks out the back of my oven in large quantities, much more than I've spilled. I think maybe it's coming off the food, leaking out a loose seam in the back, and condensing on the back panel, dripping down onto the…
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