Fan assisted ovens are effectively 20C higher in temp than conventional ones so why weren’t they always just shipped with an adjusted scale so you’d set them to the same temp as conventional?
And does this mean there’s stuff you can cook at max temp only in a fan oven?
This thread was requested by @hip_young_gunslinger and @ttf although it was already answered comprehensively on Twitter in my view.
No. You just design a conventional oven that is 22 degrees hotter than the hottest fan oven. Obviously.
My question would be, are they always 20 degrees higher or is it more like roughly 10% hotter which would make more sense to me
Tell you something. There is a crazy price differential with ovens that seems INEXPLICABLE. Like, basically the same oven but is £500 more. More so than any appliance, I would say. Interesting
Got to say Theo, I was excited about the fact that I would have access to a fan oven when moving to my current flat but it’s a fucking nightmare to keep clean and, frankly, I wish that it was non-fan now.
I’ve found that roasting a chicken, for example, makes an almighty mess in there now.
You need a pyrolytic (or however it’s spelt) one.
I used our setting once and it was rubbish, though.
If it is proportionally higher rather than a constant 20 would the dial need to be non linear
yeah, but they all have some “easy clean” surface thing. I’m not paying £500 more for psoriasis mate!
