Creda Cooker - Manual (Page 28)

Since a Circulaire fan oven heats up more quickly, and generally cooks food at a
lower temperature than a conventional oven, pre-heating the oven is often
unnecessary. However, foods such as bread, scones, Yorkshire pudding, should be
placed in a pre-heated oven.
The charts on pages 30 and 31 are a guide only, giving approximate cooking
temperatures and times. To suit personal taste and requirements, it may be
necessary to increase or decrease temperatures by 10˚C.
Unless otherwise indicated in the charts, food is placed in a cold oven, i.e.
without pre-heating. If food is placed in an already hot oven, the suggested cooking
time should be reduced, depending on the type and quality of food being cooked.
OVEN POSITIONS
Since the distribution of heat in the Circulaire fan oven is very even, most foods will
cook satisfactorily on any shelf position, but the shelves should be evenly spaced.
To ensure even circulation do not use meat pans larger than 390 x 300mm
(15ins x 12ins) and baking trays no larger than 390 x 255mm (13ins x 10ins), these
should be positioned centrally on the oven shelf.
Food or utensils should not be placed directly on the floor of the oven for cooking.
Never use more than 3 shelves in the oven as air circulation will be seriously
restricted.
Note:There are two rod shelves in main oven, but the top oven rod shelf can also be
used in the main oven to provide a third shelf position.
To avoid unnecessary cleaning, rod shelves which are not in use should be removed
from the oven.
TEMPERATURE AND TIME
When three shelves are used to cook large quantities of food for home freezing or
parties, it may be necessary to increase the cooking times given in the charts on pages
30 and 31 by a few minutes, to allow for the loss of heat due to the extra time taken to
load the oven, and the larger mass of food. Baking trays should have an equal gap on
all sides to allow even air circulation.
N.B. Recipes in cookery books give times and temperatures for cooking in ordinary
ovens. The Creda fan oven makes it possible, in most cases, to:–
a) reduce the recommended temperature by 25oC (45oF).
b) reduce the recommended time by approximately 10 minutes per hour.
c) make pre-heating the oven unnecessary for certain foods.
TO PREPARE MEAT AND POULTRY FOR ROASTING IN YOUR FAN
OVEN
a) Wipe the meat or poultry, dry well and weigh it. Meat which has been stored in a
refrigerator should be allowed to come to room temperature before cooking, and
frozen meat or poultry must be completely defrosted before placing in the oven.
b) The weight of any stuffing used should be added before calculating
the cooking time.
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