Convection Microwave

If you have a glass turntable I think you should take it out when using convection. The metal turntables stay in and do a good job giving a more even brown is you use it.

I leave the turntable in. Mostly I make up cake mixes using a round silicone pan, homemade biscuits and pizza. I also have used it many times for cooking casseroles. As mentioned, the biggest drawback is the amount of time to pre-heat. I have learned to be patient and don't mind when the camp fee includes electricity. I think twice when paying by the kw hour, especially in Florida.

Convection microwaves I have seen have a metal rack or metal pan on short legs you leave in on the turntable to allow heated air to also circulate under the food for even cooking and browning the bottom.

It depends on your microwave. Our one at home has a metal flat rack that slides in like a typical oven rack when using convection. Our RV convection is a Sharp. It has two round racks, high and low that sit on the turntable. You can put food on both racks and while cooking. Having the turntable on, helps with even cooking. On ours, you can turn the turntable off so when we put in a cookie sheet, it doesn't try to turn.

I do most of the cooking and I originally feared the convection oven. I finally decided to give it a try. One of the things that I didn't like about it, was that it had a long warm up time, over a half hour. To me, that just didn't make it convenient.

To circumvent this long warm up time, I would just turn up the temp and put my food in right away. As an example....if I was typically cooking chickn at 350, I would instead put it in at 400. I know the chicken we usually eats takes baout 35 minutes. I set the oven for 40, so I could stop it at 35 minutes and check it, without changing my settings, in case it wasn't done.

I find that I can make chicken, ribeyes, pork chops and other meats juicier by cooking them in the convection oven. The way I do that is to use those black BBQ mats that everyone sells, I cut them to fit my racks and then place my meat on top of the BBQ mat while cooking. The juices stay on the mat and in the meat.

I created a 3x5 card that I write down the times and temps I used to cook certain meats, since we usually use the same cut of pork chops, chicken, etc. Now I can set the convection, throw in the meat, set it and I'm done.

I leave the turntable in. Do note the warmup time (YMMV) and either take the time to pre-heat when the cooking instructions call for it, or add time to the specified baking time to account for it.

I frequently do frozen biscuits and have found that the official 20 minutes, which is perfect for a pre-heated oven, requires 24 minutes if I don't pre-heat. The turntable does insure even cooking/browning, which if you think about it, would be a problem, since having all the heat coming from one side could be expected to cook unevenly.

My DW uses the convection oven in the coach for everything. Liked it so much we put one in the house and she uses it far more than the stove oven. And leaves the turntable in

lap527 wrote:
I think I read somewhere if using the convection part the rack is supposed to stay in. I baked some cookies in ours and surprisingly they were pretty good. Lol.. it was weird to leave metal in there though. Our friend baked biscuits in his.

The convection part doesn't energize the microwave part. It's basically just a toaster oven with a fan to circulate the heated air around.

I think I read somewhere if using the convection part the rack is supposed to stay in. I baked some cookies in ours and surprisingly they were pretty good. Lol.. it was weird to leave metal in there though. Our friend baked biscuits in his.

Ours stays in, We also have a rack above that is used.

I leave the turntable in place....not sure if I'm supposed to. But, I've cooked several baked potatoes at 475 degrees for an hour at a time and so far no problems. Cooked a couple of breakfast casseroles in it as well...also left turntable in place. We don't do a lot of cooking inside the rig, and usually limit it to the above. Definitely o frying or anything that will lead to grease and heavy odors.