buy as you view. oven problems

PasturesNew

I'd say it heats up - as the engineer said so and you said the outside was cooked.

How far it heats into the food is a matter of which shelf you are using and the oven temperature you are using.

If the shelf is too high or the temperature too hot, it'll burn on the outside before the middle's done.

It would therefore to be one of two things:

- you are cooking the food at too high a temperature and/or on the wrong shelf.
- the temperature gauge on the knob differs from the actual oven temperature.

Re too high/shelf, it could also be that you're cooking an unusually large dish of food, which would mean the temperature would need turning down and the length of cooking time would need to be increased by, say, 30%.

Only you know what size of dish you're cooking + the shelf height + the temperature you're picking on the knob.

Only an oven thermometer placed inside the oven would ascertain if the oven is heating up to the same temperature the knob indicates.

wealdroam

xlou90x wrote: »

I never thought of that. Thank you!!!

Never thought of what?

vuvuzela

wealdroam wrote: »

Never thought of what?

Presumably the oven thermometer.

marliepanda

This may sound silly, but I've seen multiple people do this. Are you using the right setting?

The amount of people I've seen use the fan assisted grill option thinking it was fan assisted oven for months and months would amaze you..

lincroft1710

marliepanda wrote: »

This may sound silly, but I've seen multiple people do this. Are you using the right setting?

The amount of people I've seen use the fan assisted grill option thinking it was fan assisted oven for months and months would amaze you..

On our oven, the settings symbols are confusing

neilmcl

marliepanda wrote: »

This may sound silly, but I've seen multiple people do this. Are you using the right setting?

The amount of people I've seen use the fan assisted grill option thinking it was fan assisted oven for months and months would amaze you..

Funny you say this but I have to admit I did exactly this once myself with my parents new oven when cooking baked potatoes. They did have very nice crispy skins though

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I bought a quite expensive (for me) cooker a year ago. Its got all these fancy settings that to be honest, I don't really know how to work. All I wanted was a cooker with a gas oven and self cleaning liners cause I can't kneel on the floor to clean like I did in my 20's and 30's. There were only a very limited list of cookers that had these facilities. Apparently people buy electric (or are forced to by manufacturers not producing much in the way of good gas cookers).

I ended up getting an oven which does all sorts of things I don't want, that aren't necessary and irritate the heck out of me lol. This has led to some cooking disasters (and I do home bake and cook from scratch but not as much with this yukky oven) because I've not set it properly.

The thermometer idea is a good one as well. Read the oven instructions carefully, just in case you aren't setting it right, its quite easy to do.

And next time, buy good second hand (get a mechanic to install and check) rather than from shysters like Buy As You View.., god knows how much you will have paid for it by the time the contract is ended. I had some neighbours try to convince me to use a service like this when a TV broke and I temporarily couldn't replace it. I would have paid £1,100 for a TV that cost £300 lol. Needless to say I did without til I'd saved the necessary money. As you didn't use it until some months later, I'm sure you could do the same.

Disability benefits are normally more than usual so with some careful saving you should really be able to save for this kind of purchase.