• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    It’s a small convection oven. Most ovens are not convection ovens, they’re fan ovens or gas ovens. The biggest downside to both of them is that what you’re mostly heating up is empty space.

    I can practically fill my air fryer with enough food for one person. Clearly more efficient.

    Also because of the small size it heats up basically instantly, none of this preheating the oven for 45 minutes before you can cook anything.

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      8 months ago

      They also use air that moves a lot faster than a convection oven, which makes a huge difference.

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        8 months ago

        And they’re also rounded instead of a square so the air moves more efficiently, which also makes a huge difference.

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      8 months ago

      Most ovens are not convection ovens, they’re fan oven

      As far as I understand the nomenclature, fan ovens are convection ovens.

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        The difference is between normal ovens with top and bottom heating elements and a fan that moves the air around on one hand and a real convection oven that has a heating element in front of the fan on the other.