My wife and I live in a motorhome All we have is a convection/microwave (1/2 Time) oven and I love to bake. This is my go-to sandwich bread recipe. I make it according to the recipe until 10 minutes or so before the end of the second rise. Then I place the round standoff tray which allows metal cookware on the glass lazy susan in the oven. I preheat the convection/micro to 375 degree +2 minutes. (When I say convection/micro I mean that both methods of cooking are being use at the same time.) The oven will automatically add time for pre-heating, usually about 6 or 7 minutes.
When the oven is pre-heated and has gone off, I place my loaf onto the tray, carefully spray a little water under the tray onto the glass lazysusan and reset for convection/microwave cooking: 350 degrees for 22 minutes. This dual cooking method cooks from the inside out (micro) and the outside in (convection) so the baking time, i have learned is a little more than half.
My loaves are well risen with great crumb, very good, not great top browning and wonderful taste. I am still experimenting. I have not tented the bread during the first part of baking yet. I will try that next. I would also like better browning on the part of the loaf in the pan.
There doesn't seem to be a limit to what I can bake in this, my only, oven. I have baked boules and brownies and cakes and muffins, alway setting the cooking time to about half what is called for in the recipe. I would love it if KAF would tweak some of their yeast dough recipes for this combined method of cooking.
Let's think this through....KAF RV, travel across this great country, bake along the way.....hmmmmm, pick me, pick me! Thanks for sharing your tips for motorhome/RV baking. Irene@KAF
September 12, 2013 at 9:44pm