Baking Elements
The Bosch oven uses two baking elements: one located at the top of the oven and the second lo- cated below the floor of oven cavity to provide ease in cleaning the oven cavity.
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Broiling Elements
The broiling elements of the Bosch ovens are lo- cated at the top of the oven cavity.
Do not touch the heating elements or let pothold- ers touch the broiler elements.
Never use a towel or bulky cloth for a potholder; they could catch on fire.
Convection Element
If you have purchased one of the convection oven models you will find the convection element (not visible) and fan located at the back of the oven cavity.
This element and fan combination performs the cooking when in the convection bake mode. When in any of the convection modes the fan is on, see Table 3.
About Convection Ovens
Both the single ovens and double ovens are avail- able as either conventional thermal ovens or as convection ovens.
Although most people are familiar with the opera-
tion of a conventional thermal oven many are un- clear as to how a convection oven works or in what ways it is superior to a conventional thermal oven.
Below you will find a brief explanation of how a convection oven works and its advantages.
In Bosch Ovens, the Genuine European Convec- tion system (the 3 elements, fan and venting panel) circulates even, heated air throughout the oven. This process:
•Seals in juices and flavor
•Provides even baking and browning
•Saves time and energy
•Baking on multiple levels at the same time
•Dehydrates herbs, fruits and vegetables
•Bakes whole meals at once with no flavor transfer
•Thaws evenly
The Bosch cookbook provides many helpful tips and a description of each cooking cycle. It also has many recipes for each cycle to help you enjoy your new oven.
Many of your own recipes have time and tempera- ture instruction for the regular bake cycle. As a rule, most of these recipes can be cooked with better results in one of the convection cycles. In general, to convert standard recipes for use in convection, you reduce the temperature by about 25°F and check for doneness at the minimum sug- gested cooking time.
When baking on more than 1 rack it may be nec- essary to increase the cooking time a few minutes for each additional rack. As individual tastes vary, you may find you need to adjust the time and tem- perature to achieve desired results.
You may feel your new oven cooks differently than your old oven. We recommend you use the various cooking cycles for a few months and refer to the Bosch Cookbook to become more familiar with it.
We do not recommend you use oven thermome- ters found at many grocery stores to check oven temperature. They may be inaccurate and are slow to respond to temperature changes.
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