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The oven STILL drives us all crazy! I've re-calibrated it myself.
I understand how convection works. My oven just doesn't understand that 25 degrees is ALL the difference I want!
So far I haven't killed anything I've baked ... but I have to watch it like a hawk. It fluctuates like mad.
The fluctuations I am seeing are on my own oven thermometer ... so I can't blame the convection process.
The builder apparently had the power to our building increased. I haven't noticed any difference in the oven.
I actually have the Bosch guy coming out on the 21st to take a look. The Brick guy that came out was HOPELESS! I've had him out for the fridge, the microwave and the stove! Useless! We just had to remove our wall-installed microwave because the pushbutton on the door didn't work properly. Now I've got a big hole there waiting for the new one to be put back in. Sigh.
It's been quite the adventure moving into this place. LOTS of unhappy owners. So many deficiencies that the builder wont deal with. We really feel abused. It's sad. Such a gorgeous place. If it weren't for our fantastic view and the fact that we love our apartment layout ... we'd be gone.:cry:
Hmm? If there is a vent hole I haven't spotted it yet.
Your oven is likely venting - is there a vent/hole on the top? There is on ours (4 burners & one vent/hole with cap)
Maybe it's a little bit like mass hysteria. If everyone is all overwhelmed with moving in and unpacking and all of that, reading a stove manual isn't going to be the big priority to many of them. I'm sure I'm guilty of taking the attitude that I have seen one stove, therefore I have seen them all and possibly I am not alone on this.
Now that I've discovered there is this automatic setting for the convection oven - no wonder the fan wasn't revolving when I was on BAKE.
Having said that - if the fan wasn't actually turning around, [I]why [/I]is there a fan-sounding motor running while the oven is on?:confused:
The oven is electric not gas. The stove top is gas.
I have just read my manual (what a concept:rolleyes:). You are quite right about the convection cooking automatically reducing the heat by 25 degrees. However, I've just realized that I have been using BAKE [I]not [/I]Automatic Convection Conversion (which reduces the heat automatically). Would that not mean that the oven should heat up to 350 and NOT 300 if it is just on bake?
Obviously I am going to have to do some experimenting. I just tried to explain what I was reading to my husband - who immediately got that glazed deer-caught-in-the-headlight look.
[I]Surely [/I]all these other women who say their stoves wont heat up have read the bloody manual. I actually did read it the day we moved in ... but I didn't really have a grasp on what it was saying. We must have had 87 pounds of instruction manuals to absorb when we moved into this place.
Do you scratch your head when you read that?
Yes, council know about it and say they are "dealing with it":. :rolleyes:
I can still use the oven. I just have to watch the thermometer and set it 25 degrees higher. It fluctuates even then.
What does "inadequate power" mean?
Tangotori is probably right if you have a convection oven but if the gas pipes are too narrow this might be a reason why you are not getting enough heat for a non convection oven. I had always heard that gas BBQ's didn't get as hot as propane ones but I recently found out it is because many gas BBQ's don't have a wide enough pipe connecting it to the T.
I don't cook often on the convection cycle. Somehow, the fan bothers me with the added noise.
Really - with a convection oven you don't need to adjust your cooking times. It cooks in the same time at a lower temperature because of the way the air circulates in the oven. When convections first came out you had to adjust the temperature yourself (i.e., set the temp 25 degrees less). Now you punch in the temp your dish requires and the oven makes the adjustment. Try cooking things at the normal time... you'll find it's totaly okay. It should have told you all this in your manual - mind did (I had an electric GE Profile that was convection and my new gas Kitchen Aid is both regular and convection - both the same)
I have a convection oven (Profile Series) & I too was wondering. I did go out and by a stove thermometer and yes, always a 25 degree difference.
Not too concerned as I just simply adjust cooking times by 10 or 15 min.
I'd still be calling the store. It's your stove, you paid for it and to me it really doesn't matter what is going on with anyone else's. You'd think if nothing else (if the store is backpeddling) you could call the authorized warranty place for Bosch and have them out to look at it. I'm afraid I have no patience for waiting for a committee to sort it out.
Eliza - is it possible that your oven is a convection? Convection ovens always heat to 25 degrees less then what you've set it to - so if you set it to 350, the oven heats to 325. The way it cooks/bakes (circulating the air), it doesn't require the additional 25 degrees. If you told me that your oven's heating discrepency was anything other then 25 I'd definitely thing there was a problem - but since it is 25 exactly, I'll bet you dimes-to-dollars that you have a convection oven.
Also - the heat is fluctuating because it's constantly re-heating as it cools. That's common for an oven. You're likely just noticing the flucuations because it's digital and you can see the temperature as it cools and re-heats to the required temp. Make sense?
I encourage you and your neighbours to take a closer look at your oven's manual.
I think that is The Brick passing the buck. Seems like they got a problem and don't want to deal with it.
Okay, get this. I live in a very large development that is still under construction. All the units have this stove. From what I'm hearing via the grapevine I'm far from alone with this discrepancy. There is quite a list. The Brick is blaming it on the fact that there is inadequate power coming into our buildings. Just the fact that it came from the Brick upsets me.
Do you scratch your head when you read that?
Yes, council know about it and say they are "dealing with it":. :rolleyes:
I can still use the oven. I just have to watch the thermometer and set it 25 degrees higher. It fluctuates even then.
Call right away I had a Bosch cooktop in my last house and it worked perfectly so there is no reason that it is not getting up to temp. They had to reset the thermostat so it heats up properly.
I agree about getting it fixed. I don't know if this is something that needs to be done periodically with stoves but I know it's a common problem.
I have encountered this kind of thing in virtually all rental apartments and even my mothers stove was a bit off so we just adjusted our baking time accordingly or changed what temperature we baked things at.
Assuming this stove is as new as your condo, I'd be on the phone to where ever it came from. A new stove should be 100%, no goofing around. If nothing else, they should be the ones to come out and calibrate it or whatever they do.