I have question. I bought a microwave oven that has a grill and convection oven function. It comes with a grill rack and turntable.
2 days ago, I tried to cook frozen pizza with the grill rack without the turntable and while it is cook, the center of the pizza is not really cooked. Yesterday I tried frozen fried calamari with the grill rack on the turntable and it doesn't brown as much. I read somewhere that convection oven cooks faster but in my case, it seems slower.
The question I need help with would be do I put the grill rack on top of the turntable while using the convection mode?
So I am not sure if I should cook with the grill rack on or off the turntable.
Best Answer
I hope the moderators will allow me to go off tangent and contribute my own notes of my personal experience. As per your observation,
So will other foods you put in to bake in convection mode. It does not work as well as a industrial turntable oven.
So because the center of the cake will cook slower, you probably need to lower the temperature even further and hence a usual size cake may take up to 1-1/2 hours to bake.
Worse for cookies. Those that are lined near the rim of the round baking pan have their outer halves more baked than the inner halves. So at the half way mark of the baking time, I have to take them out and rotate each and every cookie 180º. Since I bake them on three levels, I also switch the bottom tray with the center one as the heat is not even for these two levels.
Lesson learned. I will get a normal oven for my kind of bakes. For anyone out there interested to get a turntable oven, make sure the one you are interested has a blast of heat directing at the center.