Microwave/Convection Oven Notes

Microwave/Convection Oven Notes

1. Convection oven

   • can save about an hour on a turkey
   • food cooks more evenly
   • can cook more cookies in a convection oven because of the fan moving the heat around
   • the heat gradually moves out of the heating elements to heat oven up
   • there's a fan in a convection oven to move the heat all around better
   • There is an extra piece in convection over that a conventional oven doesn't have
   • food cooked in a convection oven cooks 25% faster than other ovens.
   • cook about 25 degrees lower in convection oven
   • use a pan more shallow so heat moves through food better

2. Conventional oven

   • bottom half is the coolest
   • doesn't cook as thourly
   • top wrack cooks faster normally becuase heat isn't moved around
   • top and bottom are different temps
   • top is hottest

3. Microwave

   • water molecules move back and forth to heat up the food
   • no metal in microwave
   • magnetrons move through the fan into thr microwave
   • energy efficent ways to cook
   • the fan moves the heat around the microwave
   • The waves bounce from wall to tall till it hits the food causing it to heat up