Halogen Oven - Can't cook chips!

vibez

I bought a halogen oven and I struggle to cook chips on it.

I place a tray of chips at the bottom and a tray above them on the stand.

The top ones cook too quick and the bottom ones too slow.

I find it is this way with most things I cook in it.

Am I missing something? Everyone raves about halogen ovens but I fail to see why.

arbrighton

Swap things half way through?

joedenise

You can get a chip basket for the halogen. I got mine from JML for about a fiver.

Denise

FrugalinShropshire

I don't have a "real" oven yet, just a halogen oven and one of those table top ones with 2 hot plates (which we don't use as they are too expensive on electricity!) i use my halogen a lot and do chips on the high rack on a pizza tray for about 35 mins at about 180 degrees and they come out perfect. Are you doing two trays at at time as I have found that that doesn't work very well?

Butterfly_Brain

Try turning the temperature down. I found that I had to use trial and error when I first got my halogen oven. But if you use the temperature that you would in a fan oven (20 degrees less than a convection oven) you won't go far wrong

mioliere

I do mine in a dish on the bottom rack, with the extender ring in place. I parboil first for around ten to fifteen minutes, then coat them with oil, and turn them halfway through. I tried doing them on the top and they were too crisp.

vibez

FrugalinShropshire wrote: »

I don't have a "real" oven yet, just a halogen oven and one of those table top ones with 2 hot plates (which we don't use as they are too expensive on electricity!) i use my halogen a lot and do chips on the high rack on a pizza tray for about 35 mins at about 180 degrees and they come out perfect. Are you doing two trays at at time as I have found that that doesn't work very well?

Yeah we need to 2 use 2 tray because of the amount of chips we need