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ELECTRIC OVENS
The more common option for households, electric ovens make up the majority of the market, with the oven type cheaper to buy than gas ovens. With more brands and model types available, an electric oven may be your best bet if you’re looking for something specific, or if you like to have plenty of options up your sleeve.
Electric ovens are often viewed as easier to clean, easier to use, as well as easier to cook with if you’re after a more even cook, making them ideal for frozen pizzas and baking. While they might impact your electricity bill, they may be your best bet if you’re not sure what you’re after. For further variety, electric ovens can be separated into convection and conventional ovens, which means you’ll be able find one that’s best suited for you.
Conventional vs. Convection Ovens
In addition to deciding on how your oven is powered, what type of oven you choose will be dependent on a variety of factors. Most ovens are split into conventional and convection categories, each with their own different strengths when it comes to cooking.
The main difference comes from how the oven cooks your food, in particular how it heats up the air inside. A conventional oven heats from the bottom up, but can create inconsistent cooking as pockets of cooler air can form in some areas. In comparison, convection ovens will circulate warm air from the back via a fan, and can usually be set to a lower temperature than conventional ovens while still achieving the same end results. As it circulates air however, pans and dishes with high edges may impact on how well cooked your food is.
TYPES OF ELECTRIC OVEN SIZE
When it comes to ovens, your household size, as well as whether or not your place is the usual spot for those Sunday night dinners, will determine the size and capacity of oven you should go with, with plenty of brands offering both single and double-ovens for you to consider.
Single Ovens
Single ovens are generally made to fit anywhere in your kitchen, regardless of whether you have space under the counter or at eye-level, with most single models made tall, meaning that plenty of pans and containers will be able to fit in the oven. Better suited for smaller households, or households that may not use the oven often, a single oven will be able to take care of the majority of your cooking needs.
Double Ovens
More suitable for bigger families, or those that like to cook in bulk, a double oven is essentially two single ovens stacked on top of each other, which are often tall. The main benefit of a double oven is that households can use one oven to cook, while simultaneously using the other oven for grilling, making big meals and roasts easier to create.
Specialized Electric Oven Features
Self-Cleaning Ovens
While no one could deny how handy an oven is, cleaning is undeniably one of the most boring household chores, with grease and burnt food etc. the bane of many. Thankfully, self-cleaning ovens are readily available, although the handy function isn’t available with all models, so you’ll have to keep an eye out if you’re looking to cut down on your cleaning time.
Self-cleaning ovens can be further categories into Pyrolytic and Catalytic, with both keeping your oven clean in different ways. Pyrolytic, the more common type, heats up to 500 degrees, effectively burning any food residue left behind, with consumers simply left to sweep up the ashes, while Catalytic ovens are lined with special chemicals that absorb any food spills to make general clean up easier.
Regardless of which one you prefer, a self-cleaning function will set you back an additional amount, but when it comes to cutting down on your chores, it may be well worth the money.
Tips for Baking in an Electric Oven
Electric ovens have a large electric coil just under the floor of the oven compartment. This coil pushes radiant heat upwards into the oven compartment at a fairly steady and even rate. Like gas ovens, they may have a second coil on the roof of the oven to serve as the broiler, but it's the one on the floor of the oven that usually does the work of keeping your oven hot.
1. Preheat for longer than you think.
Electric coils take a little while to warm up to full temperature and start pumping out the heat — it's not an automatic "on" or "off" quite the way it is with gas heat. This just means that you should preheat for longer than you (or your oven) might think you should. An oven thermometer can help you feel confident that your oven has fully heated.
2. Tent with foil to avoid over-browning.
While getting a browned and golden top on your pies and pastries is almost never a problem with electric ovens, over-browning can be. If you notice the edges or tips of your food starting to darken long before you know the food is done, just loosely tent some foil over the top, or crimp foil around the edges of the pan where the crust is browning. The loose foil still allows for air and heat circulation, but also protects the top from the intense direct heat that might cause it to burn.
3. Bake in the middle of the oven.
Unless your recipe specifies otherwise, baking on a rack in the middle of the oven will give you the best all-around heating and help both the top and the bottom of your food cook at a steady rate. The middle of the oven is also less prone to hot spots. Even so, rotating your trays midway through baking also helps guarantee even cooking.
4. Use the right bake-ware for the job.
Because the heat in an electric oven is usually so steady and dependable, that means you can use your cookware to your advantage to get exactly the results you want. Use metal bake-ware for more browning around the sides and bottoms of your foods; dark metal pans, in particular, will help crisp up the bottoms of your cookies and pastries. Use glass, ceramic, or silicone bake-ware when you want to decrease browning, like when making light-colored cakes or cupcakes. These materials conduct heat less well and decrease the amount of browning in foods.
5. Add steam when you need it.
There are some times when the dry environment of an electric oven can be a little frustrating, especially when baking bread. To add a little steam and help your loaves rise, you can pour a cup of hot water into an empty pan on the bottom of the oven or open the door a crack and use a spray bottle to spritz some moisture into the air.
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