Convection Oven Preheat

[Chief]

DW says convection oven takes longer to preheat to say 350 degrees than it takes to cook whatever requires that heat. It does seem to take much longer than a conventional oven. Anyone have any experience with this sort of dilemma? Oven is a Sharp Microwave/Convection combo.

[Vet Man]

I found that it took a little longer, but never caused a problem. I think in the preheat mode it only has one element unlike my home oven, that in preheat it uses both top and buttom element.

[Savannah]

It does take longer or seems to but the end result of not heating the coach up is worth the extra time for us.

[Parrot Zoo]

I ran into the same problem. Even had the Sharp repairman out and he said that because the heating eliment was smaller in the coach's oven than the one in my house it just took longer to preheat. I thought it was broken because it seemed to take forever for the bell to ring!
Maggie

[bsavage]

Yes, I agree also... it takes longer to preheat than you would expect.

Brenda, of...

[Chief]

Thanks for the replies. I shall dutifully inform my bride of 42 years that her oven takes no longer than others to get warm. Read into that what you may. Thanks to all.

[sal avitabile]

my complaint is when you have 30 amps you cant run the air and microwave especially in hot weather,and than it takes forever to cool off and shut down , Im thinking of putting a oven in my rig.
thanks Sal Avitabile

[TXiceman]

Our old Avion 5er had 30 amps service and we always ran the A/C and Microwave and never a problem...summer or winter.

Ken

[Happymi]

I was very dissapointed about the convection/micowave oven the first couple of times that I used it. I have one at home as well and it was taking forever to cook anything. After doing some research I found out that the reason for it taking longer and not cooking as fast was because of the wattage. The wattage in the home is different than in my Dutch Star. I took my time and read the cookbook and now I am ok with it. Takes time for old dogs to learn new tricks.

[Max Hubrich]

We have a GE micro/convection wave oven. I put an oven therometer in the unit to check the temperatures. Boy, ours is way off--. When I set it to pre-heat to 350 degrees, the oven therometer read 290 degrees when the buzzer went off. I called GE and they told me there is no re-calabration procedure for this unit as there is in the oven in our stick house. Then they told me they are allowed to be off plus or minus 40 degrees-- I said heck, this one is off 60 degrees. They told me to go buy a new one!! Now I set the pre heat to 410 degrees and when the buzzer goes off we have 350. I ran the same test at home and 350 pre-heat gave us 350!!

This is why, when we first got this rig, things wouldn't get cooked properly.

Go and buy an oven therometer at Wal-Mart- or anyplace, and check yours-- you might be surprised. If you are off, like we were, just add, or maybe subtract, a "fudge" factor. I did a friends Monoco Diplomat and it was off about 30 degrees (to the minus also).

Good luck,