B A K I N G
When it comes to baking, your Astro oven gives you an outstanding choice of options (refer to Cooking Options on pages 6 & 7).
Tips for successful baking
Set your oven to
Use baking paper to line cake tins and biscuit trays and you’ll eliminate the need for greasing.
Read your recipe right through and assemble the ingredients on the bench before you start, you’ll save yourself a lot of panics.
You may find temperatures on 
Fan Bake need to be lowered.
Warning: Do not use fat filter when cooking baked products or fan functions.
INSPIRATION
Gourmet pizzas are easy - Try caramelised onion,blue cheese, red Thai curry paste and shredded chicken (add a garnish of yoghurt before serving), basil pesto with feta & tomato.
Some foods are best cooked on particular functions. For example rich fruit cakes and single cakes are best cooked on Bake without fan.
A single tray of baking works best using bake, however if 2 or more trays are cooked on Bake they will need to be interchanged during cooking to ensure an evenly cooked product.
Fan Bake is great for pastry products such as bacon and egg and apple pies as pastry crisps up well. You should always centre baking tins on trays. Multi shelf cooking can be used with Fan Forced and Fan Bake. When cooking 2 trays on Fan Bake cooking times may be longer and you may need to remove some foods from the oven at different times.
Fan Forced is well suited to batch baking up to 3 trays at a time for products like biscuits, scones and meringues.
Refer to the Baking Guide for suggested times, temperature and shelf positions.
For best results we recommend you bake using the trays supplied with your oven.
