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Fan oven for baking cookies.
A convection oven is suitable for baking fresh or frozen cookie dough.
Adjust the oven racks to the center position so air can circulate evenly over the top and bottom of the baking.
The circulation of warm air in convection baking results in evenly browned surfaces think poultry skin pork roast and double crust fruit pies.
Rather be sure to check on your food regularly to see how fast it is cooking.
For chewy cookies allow them to cool on the baking sheet for 3 to 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Both mary and paul use a term i m not familiar with when they talk about the oven temperature.
How to cook cakes and biscuits in a fan assisted oven step 1.
Both add what sounds like the word fan to the oven temp as in bake at 180 fan.
Generally cookies are baked in a moderate oven 350 degrees f 175 degrees c for 8 to 12 minutes depending on the size of the cookie.
The fan makes it hotter which is useful when you want to cook something faster.
Larger items will brown on the outside and look done before they are done on the inside.
It also means that two pans of cookies baking at the same time on the upper and lower oven racks will bake evenly without having to rotate the pans.
It s great for roasted vegetables roasted meats and of course cookies.
Hang an oven thermometer from a rack inside the oven to give an accurate reading of the oven temperature.
Your food cooks quicker than with other ovens.
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The circulating hot air can be a problem for anything at all delicate like light and fluffy cakes or yeast breads but most cookies aren t as disturbed by the air movement in the oven.
This works for cookies biscuits muffins puff pastry and other laminates and small stuff.
The general rule for using the fan is to set the oven temperature 25 degrees f 15 c lower than what the recipe calls for using in a regular oven.
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Because of its third heating element and fan the hot air directly around the food is steadily maintained.
Cookies are one of the baked goods that are best suited for convection ovens.
Even then don t go strictly by cooking time as ovens vary.
I know the 180 means celsius but what does fan mean.