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!

Lynne

"King's Crown" > wrote in message
nk.net...
> 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>

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
. uk...
>
> "King's Crown" > wrote in message
> nk.net...
>> 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>
I have been accused of being the "Cookie Queen" during the holidays. My
crown was tipping to the side as I was trying to bake cookie with an oven
that had a mind of it's own when it came to what temperature it wanted to
be.

Lynne