Easy bake perfect ovens are something many of us remember growing up using, not to mention making a cake, having the fun of a tea party and eating the cake. The Easy Bake oven was initially introduced by Kenner Products in 1963. It’s now sold by Hasbro. By 1997, more than 16 million of these ovens had been sold. Operating with just a light bulb, the ovens came with cake pans and cake mixes you added water to then slide into the slot for cooking. Not to be outdone by a mere light bulb, a well-known Chef actually created several Easy Bake oven recipes for the Easy-Bake Oven Gourmet book – a combination cookbook and history of the toy.
A popular favorite with thousands of children, 985,000 purple and pink plastic Easy Bake Ovens were recalled February 6, 2007. The Easy-Bake Oven recall was initiated after finding that kids’ hands and fingers could get caught in the oven’s opening, posing a serious risk of burns. The opening will be fixed to prevent this type of problem from re-occurring with the ovens.
Still with the topic of ovens, but this time the Dutch oven. There’s actually a wide variety of Dutch ovens including the camping, cowboy or chuck Dutch oven with three legs. More modern Dutch ovens are smooth bottomed with two handles.
Dutch perfect ovens cooking can be the most rewarding experience you’ve ever had – you just need to remember if you see steam escaping from around your oven lid, your oven is too hot. Dutch ovens act as a sort of pressure cooker steaming food from the inside out making it more tender. So, you need to keep the steam in your dutch oven.
Ovens come in many different guises too, for instance, microwave ovens.
They’re an absolute blessing to hundreds of households in a hurry to keep up with life, but not many people really know how they work. Microwave radiation produces heat inside the food when the water molecules in the food vibrate. The vibration produces friction, which causes heat that cooks or warms up the food.
Microwave oven users are often concerned about potential health hazards from radiation leakage. The latest advances in door seal design and proper maintenance has minimized or eliminated this concern.
Convection ovens are really quite popular, but oddly enough seem to cause panic when they are first used. This seems mostly due to the fact convection oven cooking differs from cooking in a conventional oven because you use slightly lower temperatures for a slightly shorter time than you normally would. The results are well worth it.
If you’re using lower temperatures for convection cooking, you’ll be using higher temperatures for a solar oven. The first solar oven or cooker was actually built in 1767. There are two types of solar cookers, concentrating and solar box cookers (called solar ovens because of the way they are used). The solar oven is an insulated metal box made of sheet galvanized metal or aluminum with a glass front to allow heat in. Surrounding the glass front are aluminum reflectors. The main trick to cooking with this kind of oven is to use a thermometer and keep adjusting your reflecting panels. With some trial and error, you’ll produce some fine meals.
Another addition to the more compact method of cooking is the every popular toaster perfect ovens. Toaster ovens consume 50 percent less energy than a conventional oven. Used properly, with lots of room for air to circulate around it, a 1250 watt toaster oven used an average of 2 –15 kilowatts a month. If you take a national energy rate to do the cost of running this appliance, .0814 cents per kilowatt hour translates to about sixteen cents to a $1.22 a month to operate. Not bad considering how creatively you can cook with toaster ovens.
