As I mentioned earlier, I am looking at getting a speed oven for my kitchen. Speed ovens combine a microwave and an oven as one appliance.
You can use the microwave for reheating, defrosting and cooking, while the convection oven is used for browning, baking and roasting. They can be used separately or can combine the features of both. These ovens really excel by combining the speed of the microwave with the baking quality of the convection feature.
The top selling speed ovens are manufactured by Jenn-Air and Miele, with Miele's version being the most expensive non-commercial speed oven on the market.
What sets Miele's MasterChef speed oven apart is that essentially it is a self-setting cookbook in your appliance. You pick what you are cooking and how you want it cooked. Then voila, the oven sets itself to the perfect cooking temperature and time.
Jenn-Air until recently only offered their speed oven as part of a combo micro/wall oven unit, but now it is available as a separate unit. I was able to look at this one at a local appliance store. This was exciting. I asked the salesperson how it was possible that I hadn't heard about this and why didn't everyone have one. His response - it is not big enough to roast a turkey in it. Ahh, that makes sense, but is completely irrelevant to a vegetarian. What I could see is that it has two racks, so that it would be possible to bake a two layer cake, or a casserole and something else at the same time, while basically taking up no more space that the average microwave.
We do have the incredibly good fortune of having a commercial grade speed oven in the kitchen where I volunteer at an assisted living residence for about forty formerly homeless women. This high end oven was provided by a generous donor, and it elevates high speed cooking to an art form.
How it works is that it is built with holes to spin the air and focus it onto food in concentrated bursts. To put things in perspective, the average oven takes about 18 minutes to cook chicken strips while a speed cooking oven can achieve the same result in 90 seconds. On the safety side, the oven has a built-in catalytic converter that removes harmful vapours, smoke and odours, eliminating any need for an exhaust hood.
The controls on speed ovens are intuitive and precise, letting users find their ideal settings and know that they'll taste the same delicious results. Temperature, airflow, cooking time, and many other parameters can be selected from one touchscreen, which displays picture-based icons of various foods. Users can store up to 100 unique programs - each with its own cooking, holding and time instructions. Visual and auditory alarms can also be set to ring when food is ready to serve. Finally, a front-panel USB port gives users the power to save and transfer recipe data, just in case they would like to have an extra backup.
The Jetsons was first shown on TV fifty years ago. Move over Jetsons, I have an amazing speed oven too!
We do have the incredibly good fortune of having a commercial grade speed oven in the kitchen where I volunteer at an assisted living residence for about forty formerly homeless women. This high end oven was provided by a generous donor, and it elevates high speed cooking to an art form.
How it works is that it is built with holes to spin the air and focus it onto food in concentrated bursts. To put things in perspective, the average oven takes about 18 minutes to cook chicken strips while a speed cooking oven can achieve the same result in 90 seconds. On the safety side, the oven has a built-in catalytic converter that removes harmful vapours, smoke and odours, eliminating any need for an exhaust hood.
The controls on speed ovens are intuitive and precise, letting users find their ideal settings and know that they'll taste the same delicious results. Temperature, airflow, cooking time, and many other parameters can be selected from one touchscreen, which displays picture-based icons of various foods. Users can store up to 100 unique programs - each with its own cooking, holding and time instructions. Visual and auditory alarms can also be set to ring when food is ready to serve. Finally, a front-panel USB port gives users the power to save and transfer recipe data, just in case they would like to have an extra backup.
The Jetsons was first shown on TV fifty years ago. Move over Jetsons, I have an amazing speed oven too!
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