HI all, I have been lurking around this board for a few days, having just found it. My name is Elaine and I have been doing cakes for about a year or so - mostly for friends. I am now looking into going legal and getting a kitchen done in my basement. I have a question for those who use convection ovens. What has been your experience with it? Which brands are good? any advice in buying one?
Thank you so much for all your input - the board is such a great source of support and encouragement., Elaine
I cant help you here but I wanted to respond so that maybe someone can answer this... I see its an older one.... I hope you get the answers you seek!
I have a convection oven and I love it!!!!!! It's not a professional oven, just home oven with convection. 
I just bougth a new GE home convection oven, and I love it! It is actully one of the reasons I started baking! It is soooo nice, and things bake much more evenly with the air circulating instead of just having the heat source come form the top or bottom coil. With mine I actually lower the temp by about 25 degrees and am able to get great results in the same amount of time. As for price, they do vary, I got mine for right around $1000, but it was more expensive because I chose stainless. I loive in the NW, and swear by Lowes. They beat out all the other places I looked by about $100 or so. I went with GE because it was rated one of the best by Good Housekeeping, and it has a lot of nice features.
Happy shopping, I am sure you will find one that works for you,a nd you will love it, too.
i have a GE too. And love it, Did you know that most applaince dealers of any kind of size will match or beat a competors price? When we did our kitchen over we went stainless on all the applainces and shopped around. Ended up with a smaller dealer that matched the price from Home Depot and got a 5 year warrenty on them, and all the rebates, turned out to be the best deal.
i have one at work.. i bought it when i bought the shop. We bought a used one to start off with and it worked great..until we invested in a walk in oven.. umm.. i still have a convection and love it.. tomorrow i will check on the brand and let you know... Used ones are great too...
I had given up on getting any replies and then I had 3 that really helped. My mothers day gift!
I have been looking at GE online too, just not gone to the store yet.
We have Lowes here too and will check it out and the small dealers too, thanks for that tip.
Will let you know which one I choose. Thank you all so much. Elaine
Hi...so sorry i haven't replied yet! With two little boys and a growing cake business, sometimes I feel like I'm spinning in circles! I bought mine from lowes too! I looked at the GE and that's the one I wanted, but my husband saw a frigidaire convection oven there for much less. I still wanted the GE but after looking at them both closely, the GE was smaller inside than the frigidaire. I brought my large pizza pan to the store with me and it fit great in the frigidaire, but I couldn't shut the door of the GE! So we bought the frigidaire and I have loved it! I works great and fits pretty large pans, plus it was much less expensive. Frigidaire calls their convection feature speedbake. Hope this helps.
Before buying your oven, if this is for a legal business, i would first check with your county health dept or dept of ag. before purchasing. someone of them may require you to have a commercial equipment. I was going through this recently and then to find out my town that I live in will not allow me to have it out of my home because of zoning issues.
Before buying your oven, if this is for a legal business, i would first check with your county health dept or dept of ag. before purchasing. someone of them may require you to have a commercial equipment. I was going through this recently and then to find out my town that I live in will not allow me to have it out of my home because of zoning issues.
Great advice! I wouldn't have thought about that.
I have a GE Profile, but mine fits into the cabinet. It was a Christmas present a couple of years ago and I Love it! Good luck!
I posted this question a while back, and lots of people said that the convection oven made their cakes dry while baking. For that reason, I have not purchased one.
For those of you who love your ovens, do you do anything special to keep the circulating air from drying out your cakes?
I'm not sure I do anything diffrently! The only thng I can think of is turning down the temp 25 degrees. I bake at 325 except for really big cakes, which I bake at 300.
Thank you cake confections for your advice - Thi s is for a legal business and I did not see anything about the commercial equipment in the stuff they sent me, but I will go back and look more closely at it. Thank you for pointing this out.
I had not heard about cakes drying out - I did hear about "batter movement" where the fan kind of blows the batter on the top resulting in uneven tops. Can anyone shed some light on that part?
Thanks, Elaine
make sure you have a two speed fan. On the home models its usually a bake/roast feature. The roast is the higher fan speed.
I use convection at work and those are commerical ovens and the fan controll is a high/low switch. The commerical convection has a stronger fan in it the the home oven i have. (may be because of the size of the oven) The commerical ones i use will easily hold 5 full sheet cakes at one time. Where my home oven will only hold 3 half sheet cakes at one time.
I have not experienced dry cakes with any of the convection ovens that i use unless the product is over cooked.
As with any oven it takes a little practice to get the hang of any quirks it may have. But once use to it you won't know what you ever did without.
I've never seen any batter being blown around. It always cooks great. I don't ever want to bake a cake without it again!
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