On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:45:19 -0700 (PDT), Pits09 wrote:

> Just scored 4 brand new ones still in packing from a liquidators
> auction for $40.00 +GST
>
> Now means we have 7 in the place will keep the original 3
> But beacuse we use them almost every day pretty chuffed with them
> and going through the power bill graphs and solar useage
>
> Real power saving of about 50% since we now use fry pan and
> microwave a *lot* less
>
> Our other stoves are bottle LPG and old Malleys wood fired (great for
> winter and cheap to run and the back boiler keeps the water heating
> bills down substantially and always hot water on hand for a cuppa )
>
> The bench top ovens retail a lot more than that each! And was the
> only bidder so a great score as others at auctions had not seen
> them .After auction chap walked up and asked why I snaffled all of
> them ( I got ten had to take the lot you see )
> sold 6 in the car park and turned a profit WAY TO GO $44.00
> cash out $240 cash in (wish I could do that every auction)
> so Christmas gift shopping almost completed and in front on cash
> outlay
> Have acouple that I have used over some time and love them .
>
> However, the cook books instructions that come with them are very much
> on the light side
>
> Thus I share my observations
> 1 cooking time is between 20 &30% less (as are the power bills)
> 2 Cooking is even in fact the more you load it up the better the
> result (otherwise the top rack burns some recipes)
> as long as you leave enough space on the sides to allow even
> circulation of heated air (think fan forced ovens here)
>
> Found a half decent web based recipe resource that am slowly working
> through to get precise temps measures etc sorted for the use with
> these things (also to pass on to the gift recipients) to save them
> the trial and error process etc
>
> See http://www.myrecipes.com/recipes/browse-recipes
>
> But on average the 20 to 30% less rule seems to apply to all except
> cakes and breads (of late the bread efforts with these as more like a
> brick manufacturing plant even the birds now bring own hammer and
> chisels to get the left overs )
>
> So if you see these things in the states I give them 8 out of 10
> (once you experiment a bit with them
> Cheers
> P

users of convection ovens may find this site useful:

<http://www.convection-calculator.com/>

it converts times/temperatures used in conventional oven recipes to those
used in a convection oven.

your pal,
blake