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To: yorkiemom
I may have to copy this to a file and save it. It's a rant, for sure...

Convection ovens operate on the mistaken theory that you can put a cheap @$$ fan in the corner of an oven and create even circulation to balance out the normal hot/cold spots that cause uneven cooking.

BULL$&!T.

What the stupid little fan does is to concentrate the hot spots and cold spots and increase uneven cooking.

In a commercial bakery, it can lead to hilarity, when cooking some paper thin cookies like Pecan Thins that are mostly egg white.

What happens is that they lift off of the Silpat baking mat and fly out the back top of the oven where the vent is.

In every kitchen I ever worked in, if there was a switch to turn the fan off, I turned it off, taped over it with HAZARD tape and put a note on it to not turn it on.

Amazing what you can get away with if you have some official tape and a notice.

/johnny

144 posted on 04/27/2013 5:17:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
What the stupid little fan does is to concentrate the hot spots and cold spots and increase uneven cooking.

In a commercial bakery, it can lead to hilarity, when cooking some paper thin cookies like Pecan Thins that are mostly egg white.

What happens is that they lift off of the Silpat baking mat and fly out the back top of the oven where the vent is.


LOL! Sounds like fun (or a mess, depending on one's perspective).

How did you go from engineer to culinary school and being a chef? Or is that order reversed?
150 posted on 04/27/2013 5:27:22 PM PDT by yorkiemom
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