My daughter is a dab hand at cheese soufflé but has a problem. She wishes
to feed more people than her soufflé dish will provide decent servings
for. I have another to lend her but her question is: if she puts two at
once in her fan oven will she have to adjust the timing?
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Nick Spalding

Nick Spalding wrote:

> My daughter is a dab hand at cheese soufflé but has a problem. She
> wishes to feed more people than her soufflé dish will provide decent
> servings for. I have another to lend her but her question is: if she puts
> two at once in her fan oven will she have to adjust the timing?

Hi, Nick. Glad you made it here. I didn't mean to imply that our other
group wouldn't have an answer, but the gang in here will have, or my
tough, sharkly skin isn't composed of dermal denticles. I've never made a
soufflé. But I do confess to having one from Stouffers a couple months
ago and it was pretty darned tasty. And I haven't seen it in the stores
since, dammit.


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Nick Spalding wrote:

> My daughter is a dab hand at cheese soufflé but has a problem. She wishes
> to feed more people than her soufflé dish will provide decent servings
> for. I have another to lend her but her question is: if she puts two at
> once in her fan oven will she have to adjust the timing?

Cooking time depends on the size of the thing being cooked. Two things the
same size should cook in the same amount of time as a single item that size.
Just make sure they are close together to account for hot or cold spots in the
oven, side by side, not on different racks.

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Nick Spalding wrote:
>
>> My daughter is a dab hand at cheese soufflé but has a problem. She
>> wishes
>> to feed more people than her soufflé dish will provide decent servings
>> for. I have another to lend her but her question is: if she puts two at
>> once in her fan oven will she have to adjust the timing?
>
> Cooking time depends on the size of the thing being cooked. Two things the
> same size should cook in the same amount of time as a single item that
> size.
> Just make sure they are close together to account for hot or cold spots in
> the
> oven, side by side, not on different racks.
>
>
I'd underline the above. I cook souffles quite a lot. If you have a full
size oven with constant heat everywhere you should be able to bake two
souffles side by side, but perhaps with a slight increase in time. I heat
oven to 400F, drop the temp. to 375F when the souffles go in, have a slow
glass of wine for thirty minutes, during which time I don't look into the
oven. Then you look carefully not to lower the oven temp, and bake until
they have risen and are brown to your liking on top. I suspect two may take
a couple more minutes.

Kent