Convection and Combination Cooking
Custom convection cooking
To preheat the oven for convection cooking, follow steps 1-3 below.
To convection cook without preheating the oven, skip step 3 below.
NOTE: For best results, many recipes require pre- heating the oven before you begin cooking. Use cooking utensils that will not melt or burn in the hot oven. Do not use light plastic containers, plastic wraps, or paper products during any convection or combination cycle.
1.Touch CONVECT.
2.Touch Number pads for desired temperature.
(If your recipe does not call for preheating, go to step 4.)
3. Touch START to Preheat oven.
Two tones will sound when oven has reached preheat temperature.
4.Place food in appropriate cookware on Convection Rack.
5.Touch Number pads to enter cooking time in hours:minutes.
For example: For 1 hour, touch “1 0 0”.
Helpful hints for convection cooking
•For best results, place food on the Convection Rack.
•Do not cover Turntable or Convection Rack with alu- minum foil. It interferes with the flow of air that cooks the food.
•Round pizza pans are excellent cooking utensils for many
•Use convection cooking for items like souffles, breads, cookies, angel food cakes, pizza, and most meat and fish cooking.
•You do not need to use any special techniques to adapt your favorite oven recipes to convection cook- ing. However, you may need to lower some temper- atures or reduce some cooking times from the con- vection oven cooking directions.
•When baking cakes, cookies, breads, rolls, or other baked foods, most recipes call for preheating. Preheat the empty oven just as you do a regular oven. You can start heavier dense foods such as meats, casseroles, and poultry without preheating.
•All heatproof cookware or metal utensils can be used in convection cooking.
•Use metal utensils only for convection cooking. Never use for microwave or combination cooking since arcing and damage to the oven may occur.
•After preheating, if you do not open the door, the oven will automatically hold at the preheated tem- perature for 30 minutes.
6. Touch START.
Using the drip pan
NOTE: It is not necessary to preheat the oven unless your recipe calls for it.
Preheating temperature chart
Recommended temperature settings may vary. Refer to your recipe for recommended temperature settings.
FOOD | TEMP |
Cookies | 325°F (163°C) |
Breads, Brownies | 350°F (177°C) |
Refrigerated Biscuits, Fresh Pies | 375°F (191°C) |
Fresh Pizza, Frozen Pies | 400°F (204°C) |
Muffins, Fresh Fish Fillets | 425°F (218°C) |
Fresh Biscuits | 450°F (232°C) |
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NOTE: For any Convection, Combination or Broiling cooking of foods that drip grease, such as steak or hamburger, we recommend that you place the Drip Pan (Part No. 8172250) under the rack to catch the grease.
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