Halogen Oven

alferret · 19-11-2011, 11:43

We have just brought a Halogen oven (Gino D'acampo) & I was wondering if anyone has links to some sites that have any decent recipies.

AdamD · 19-11-2011, 22:55

Always been wanting to try one of these, have you tried anything in it yet?

Cobbydaler · 20-11-2011, 00:40

Re-launched website, but may be useful...

http://www.halogenovenrecipes.co.uk/recipes-archive

Also, more tips here:

http://www.halogen-ovens.com/halogen...oking-tips.cfm

alferret · 20-11-2011, 15:59

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Originally Posted by AdamD

Always been wanting to try one of these, have you tried anything in it yet?

We have done roast pot's & lamb chop's, came out a little bit over done (learning) & yesterday we done a fry-up (saus, mush, bacon, black pudding & hash browns) cooked in the oven & the food honestly tatsed really good. Doing a roast chicken, pot's & veg in a mo.

Well worth the £25 I got that oven for IMO.

AdamD · 20-11-2011, 16:24

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Re-launched website, but may be useful...

Nice site, thanks

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Originally Posted by alferret

We have done roast pot's & lamb chop's, came out a little bit over done (learning) & yesterday we done a fry-up (saus, mush, bacon, black pudding & hash browns) cooked in the oven & the food honestly tatsed really good. Doing a roast chicken, pot's & veg in a mo.

Well worth the £25 I got that oven for IMO.

Hmm, might have to try one after all.

AdamD · 23-11-2011, 01:17

Decided to buy this one, which arrived today

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-James...2010989&sr=8-1

Decided to put two rolls in it, with cheese and ham, as a test

Roll was crispy, cheese and butter melted, tasted great, so, so far so good.

Gonna try chicken breasts tomorrow.

Jimmy-J · 23-11-2011, 01:46

Just bought this one for our daughter. It should be with her this Friday.

AdamD · 23-11-2011, 16:19

Seems to cook things very fast, perhaps a little to fast, heh, but, if you put something on the lower shelf/rack, with something on top, it doesn't cook it at all

So that's a big dissapointment

Put frozen chips on the top shelf, they were brown/cooked within 10 minutes (normally 30+ in the gas oven), but the chicken underneath was still pink

Ah welk.

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Ok, results were very good in the end.

We have a normal gas oven (non fan assisted) which takes about 15 minutes to pre heat.

The chips take about 25-30 minutes to cook, when in a pre heated oven, so 45 minutes total.

The chicken breasts, with cheese/bacon and BBQ sauce normally take 20+25 (after adding the sauce), so about the same time.

Chips took 10 minutes to cook in this new gadget, the chicken took about 12 minutes, plus another 10 with the sauce, so a massive reduction in time

And oddly enough, it did taste better to, chicken was very hot, but moist, the chips were browned all over and hot.

Just takes a bit of getting used to

alferret · 23-11-2011, 18:53

We cooked a 1.8kg chuk in about 70 mins, roast's were 45min & roast carrots were 30min (about 20% quicker than conventional oven)
Done Youngs fish in john smiths batter & Iceland wedges last nite.
Started the fish @ 225c on bottom rack after 10 mins added wedges on top rack & cooked for a further 15 mins, all were cooked to perfection & the fish in batter was perfection.

I think a rule of thumb would be 15-20% off conventional times.

Did the Andrew James come with the extender ring? If not try and source one as we have noticed that without it food cooked on the top shelf does seem to cook\look cooked a lot quicker even though it may not be.

Aside from our first go (lamb & pots) everything has come out ok with the food tasting much better than normally.

Also another thing that is worth some consideration is that the cost for the cooking time of the food drops considerably with no pre-heating & a faster cook time along with a 1.3-1.4kwh max usage.

AdamD · 24-11-2011, 14:09

Good advice, thanks

Yea the one I bought came with a whole bunch of extras, including the extender ring.

Heated up some of those tesco barbecue wings today, it did those in about 10 minutes, which would've normally taken 30 in the normal gas oven, plus it seems to cook things alot more evenly, without drying the food out, which is nice.

AdamD · 15-12-2011, 20:32

I haven't used my normal oven since getting the halogen, although you do have to be careful where you put food, as the stuff on top cooks before the stuff on the bottom has even got luke warm.

Not sure why it does that, ah well. :P

alferret · 15-12-2011, 20:46

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Originally Posted by AdamD

I haven't used my normal oven since getting the halogen, although you do have to be careful where you put food, as the stuff on top cooks before the stuff on the bottom has even got luke warm.

Not noticed that TBH AdamD
I have cooked from frozen hash browns on the top rack, field mushrooms, sausages & black pudding not frozen on the bottom rack for 20 mins @ 175c/180c with no issues of under cooking on the bottom rack. I do always use the extender ring though as without it it would seem that the top rack would be a bit to close to the heating element which would cause things to cook a lot quicker on the top rack without it.

Caff · 15-12-2011, 21:53

I haven't even tried a Halogen hob yet - so I wouldn't let me loose around a Halogen oven around this time of year

I'm not much help am I?

**Graham M** · 15-12-2011, 23:06

Our new hob is ceramic halogen, flipping fantastic

djfunkdup · 15-12-2011, 23:59

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Originally Posted by alferret

We have just brought a Halogen oven (Gino D'acampo) & I was wondering if anyone has links to some sites that have any decent recipies.

oh dear...imagine buying something from a thief

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ngs-house.html

am tellin the polis

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