>I recently purchased two Viking electric ovens that have convection
>heating. The cookies are the pre mixed doe, simply place on the
>cookie sheet and cook. The instructions say 17 min at 325 degrees. I
>have tried Convection mode, Bake mode, and Tru Convection mode with no
>success. The cookies are burnt on top?? Very burnt! They start
>burning at around 7 min!
>
>Please any suggestions using a convection oven?
>
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In my opinion, convection ovens are terrible when it comes to baking. They're
fine for roasting but I think they bake too fast. Items such as cakes aren't
given enough time to rise before they're done. Even if you lower the
temperature as much as 50 degrees they still don't come out as good as a cake
baked in a regular oven.
About your problem, does your oven use both top and bottom heating? It sounds
like you're getting too much heat from the top and your cookies are toasting
rather than baking.

>(Roon) writes:
>
>I lowered the temp by 25% and it worked!!! I set the oven temp to
>~250 degrees and they came out great. It is irritating that I will
>need to adjust the temp/time for many items I cook.

Perhaps your oven's thermostat needs recalibration... check with an oven
thermometer.

>One item that bothers me is that in all baking modes the top element
>turns on. Not sure why this is? I thought "Bake" mode only turns on
>the bottom element.

When using the Bake cycle with most electric ovens both top and bottom element
are energized during the preheating period.


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In article >,
(Roon) wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I recently purchased two Viking electric ovens that have convection
> heating. The cookies are the pre mixed doe, simply place on the
> cookie sheet and cook. The instructions say 17 min at 325 degrees. I
> have tried Convection mode, Bake mode, and Tru Convection mode with no
> success. The cookies are burnt on top?? Very burnt! They start
> burning at around 7 min!
>
> Please any suggestions using a convection oven?

Have you checked that it's not set on "broil"?

Miche (seriously, I've done that before)

--
WWMVD?

In article >,
(Roon) wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I recently purchased two Viking electric ovens that have convection
> heating. The cookies are the pre mixed doe, simply place on the
> cookie sheet and cook. The instructions say 17 min at 325 degrees. I
> have tried Convection mode, Bake mode, and Tru Convection mode with no
> success. The cookies are burnt on top?? Very burnt! They start
> burning at around 7 min!
>
> Please any suggestions using a convection oven?

Have you checked that it's not set on "broil"?

Miche (seriously, I've done that before)

--
WWMVD?