"King's Crown" > wrote in message
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> Well, I couldn't wait to use it and the kids suggested chocolate chip
> cookies as a good test. haha
>
> A true convection oven has a third element and a fan that circulates
> the air
> around for uniform cooking. Plus it's supposed to cook faster and at
> a
> slightly lower temp.
>
> It said I could cook 3 cookie sheets of cookies at one time, so I did.
> I
> have never gotten 2 sheets of cookies to cook well unless I switched
> their
> places in the oven halfway through the cooking time and still it
> wasn't that
> great... not bad though.
>
> I baked with the convection oven temp 25 degrees F lower than what the
> recipe called for.... I still needed to cook the full 10 minutes the
> recipe
> asked for. The 3 sheets of cookies though came out equally cooked and
> equally browned. I was really examining for a difference and I could
> not
> detect any. The bottoms of the cookies were beautiful as well. I did
> use
> my Silpats, which work really well with cookies. I baked thirty six 3
> 1/2
> inch cookies in thirty minutes. That included mixing of the dough,
> baking
> and cooling for 2 minutes before removing from pan to cooling rack.
> Normally, that would have been 60 minutes of baking alone for cookies
> that
> size. My neighbors let me throw the old oven on their "dump trailer",
> so I
> took a plate of warm cookies over to them and they couldn't believe
> how fast
> they had come out of the oven.
>
> I'm impressed!

You do realise that you will now become a cookie machine <G>