How to choose an oven?

With the development of the times, the traditional steaming and baking kitchen utensils can no longer meet people's needs. More and more people have ovens in the kitchen. But for beginners, the understanding of the oven is still very one-sided, except that it can be used to heat barbecue food.

In this article, Bian Xiao will talk about:

1. What is the specific function of the oven?

2. How to distinguish several types of ovens?

3. A cost-effective oven model.

First, let's discuss the functions of the oven.

1. Cooking cake

In fact, many people bought electric ovens to make cakes. Because many foodies have an innate affection for cakes, cakes have a strong eye-catching place in terms of taste and appearance. But foodies should pay attention that it is not enough to have an oven to make delicious cakes. You need to learn how to do it. The electric oven is only an auxiliary tool after all.

Processing ingredients

The oven is especially friendly to lazy people, because you only need to put the ingredients in the oven, and then after a period of waiting, it can automatically help you make all kinds of delicious food. This is much more convenient than other kitchen utensils.

3. Indoor barbecue

As soon as many people hear barbecue, they will think of barbecue in the wild. In fact, with the electric oven, they can barbecue at home without leaving home. And the electric oven is much more delicious than the barbecue dishes you cook in an ordinary pot. Because the oven is cooking at 360 degrees, it can achieve the effect that the pan can't be fried over and over again.

Heating food

Speaking of heating food, this is the advantage of electric oven. Ultra-high temperature, whether it is hot rice, hot vegetables or hot milk, can help you get it.

Dry snacks

For example, some dry food, left at home for a long time, is easy to get wet, which affects the taste. You can put these foods in the oven, and it won't be long before the food becomes crisp and fragrant again.

Domestic ovens generally have these types.

1. Embedded oven

This oven has the advantages of accurate temperature control, uniform baking effect, strong sealing and good heat insulation. However, compared with these functions, the most commendable thing is its double-layer baking, because it is composed of multiple groups of heating tubes, and the inside is heated evenly, so that even if the upper and lower layers are carried out at the same time.

Baking can also ensure the consistent effect of food baking.

However, the price of embedded oven is higher than that of ordinary desktop oven, generally ranging from 2000- 10000. You can choose to buy according to your own budget.

2. Desktop oven

The desktop oven is very flexible, so you can put it anywhere. However, the thermal insulation of the desktop oven is very poor, so it is recommended to put it in a place that is difficult for children to reach at work.

The price of desktop oven is cheaper than embedded oven, ranging from 200 to 2000. If you are a novice, you can try to start with the desktop.

Of course, if classified by function, in addition to the above two, there are multifunctional steaming ovens. It combines two functions of cooking and barbecue, which can be separated and used for cooking and barbecue at the same time, so it is very practical. However, it also has obvious shortcomings, because there is water vapor during the operation of the steaming oven, which will lead to the reduction of the life of its own heating tube. At the same time, too much water vapor will also enter the ingredients, affecting the taste of food.

However, if you have research on food cooking at home, you can start with such a set. Because of it, cooking all kinds of delicious food is a cinch.

Recommend a cost-effective one.

In fact, if you are in the baking industry, you will find that many kinds of ovens are actually not practical. Let me talk about the model I bought before and help you analyze it. I chose a multifunctional steamer called TE7200 in Toshiba Chimei Store. At first glance, the interface is really scared by its price. /kloc-the price of more than 0/000 yuan is really not cheap in a desktop oven, but I still value practicality more than price.

In fact, in terms of volume, the capacity of TE7200' s 20L is really a little small. Such a small capacity can't hold any more ingredients. If you bake it a few times more, you will waste a lot of time. But TE7200 is different from other ovens, it can support double-layer baking, which is a function that ordinary small ovens can't achieve. In other words, TE7200 not only saves space than embedded oven, but also is easy to move. It can also achieve a barbecue effect that is difficult to achieve in a small oven. Don't worry that the multi-layer barbecue will make the food on the upper and lower floors heated unevenly, because its barbecue method is antique kiln barbecue, and the hot air circulation is as high as 230, and every side of the food will be evenly brushed by hot air. Coupled with the high-power heating of 1300W, it can really achieve the uniform heating effect that large-capacity ovens can not achieve. And it is also a steaming and baking machine. Compared with ordinary ovens, the steaming and baking machine does have many advantages. It combines steaming and baking, and the dishes it can make are really incomparable to ordinary ovens. At the same time, the steaming function is turned on, the surface is baked at high temperature, and the internal steam is heated, which can avoid the endogenous state of being tender outside and tender inside on the basis of accelerating the ripening of food. But its shortcomings are also mentioned above. Because cooking will inevitably produce a lot of steam, which will condense together and easily form water droplets in the ingredients, which will lead to wet dried vegetables and cooked ducks. TE7200' s ingenious design has solved this big trouble, and its dome has a slight curvature, which allows water vapor to gather and be discharged without dripping into vegetables.

Having said that, you should have a preliminary understanding of the oven. Finally, Bian Xiao will summarize these points for you:

1. If you want to diversify your dishes, you can choose the steaming and baking machine, because its cooking function is really much more than that of an ordinary oven. However, if it is only used for heating and barbecue, an ordinary oven can satisfy you.

2. Novices can try the desktop oven first. Because the desktop is more convenient and easy to operate and move.

3. Some fancy functions don't have to be available, after all, many functions are not very practical.