Rescued By My Oven
April 4, 2023 at 2:00:00 AM
Learning to Make Your Ovens Work for You
While a cookbook can be helpful, it’s much more important to take the time to learn about the features of the appliance you cook with and how you can benefit from them.
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For example, I often use my Steam oven to cook 3 meals in a day. Sometimes I poach eggs for breakfast or make oatmeal or I might reheat something left over from a previous meal or heat a muffin that I have baked and frozen. When lunch comes around I might steam some vegetables and frozen Chinese dumplings, bake an individual frittata, make some grilled hot sandwiches, or reheat something I have previously cooked.
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When dinner comes around I have a whole repertoire of easy one-dish meals that I can cook in under 30 minutes. There are times I like to cook my dinner in the Convection oven and use the Steam oven to slow-cook a braise or bake a casserole to get a head start on cooking for another meal. Now that I am exploring the wonders of a Speed oven I am finding even more options for creating delicious easy oven meals.
What I want to stress is that recipes won’t tell you how to get the best out of your oven and it’s a shame if you can’t make good use of the great tools in your Convection, Steam, or Speed ovens to cook great meals and simplify meal preparation. I have found that when you understand the tools you are cooking with you can better understand how those tools can work for you.
Larissa, Your Convection Enthusiast