Electric Oven Symbols Australia

[Carolina Schmalzried]

Allmodern ovens now come with a number of cooking symbols and functions, some of which you may not be familiar with. Generally these symbols can be seen on a range of manufactures so it is useful to make some sense of them, whatever kind of cook you are. As a global leader in built-in ovens including compact ovens and double ovens, we know a thing or two about them and their many symbols. Ensuring the right function or oven setting is used will guarantee the best cooking results and create delicious meals time after time.

To help make your life easier this Bosch oven symbols guide covers a range of oven symbols from grilling to cleaning, helping save you time and effort when cooking. Read on to find out how to use your oven.

This fan oven symbol means that you can place your food on any of the four shelfs to achieve consistently perfect results: thanks to the fan wheel that changes direction of rotation during operation to distribute heat evenly on every level.

Select this oven grill symbol if you want to grill large quantities with ease thanks to the precise temperature control. For added efficiency the door can be closed and the smells are kept in the oven.

The single point meat probe constantly measures the temperature at the core of the roast and as soon as the desired temperature is reached gives an acoustic and switches off automatically. (Available in selected Serie 6 models only)

Three highly sensitive measuring points determine the core temperature of your food to the exact degree, guaranteeing perfect roasting results and taking away the guesswork. (Available in selected Serie 8 models only)

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Ovens offer a variety of settings and functions to get the best cooking and baking results. Different brands may use slight variations, however many oven symbols are universal and designed to help you identify the different functions of your oven.

If you tend to gravitate toward the functions you are most familiar and comfortable with, you are not alone! We take the guesswork out of deciphering those little pictures on your oven with our guide to common oven symbols, settings and functions.

Fan forced symbols feature a fan inside a circle. A fan forced oven has a heating element around the fan to circulate and distribute heat evenly. This allows for a faster cooking time, even temperature and a decrease in energy consumption. This will likely be your most used setting.

Some ovens offer a partial grill setting, represented by a smaller zig zag line. This indicates that only part of the grill is in use. You will need to place your food in the right spot (usually in the centre of your oven).

The defrost function can reduce your defrosting time. The oven does not use heat on this function, instead it circulates room temperature air (30C) around the food to give it an even and fast defrosting result.

The self cleaning function shows a series of black dots or diamonds decreasing size from top to bottom. It can also be represented by the letter P. High temperature pyrolytic cleaning heats your oven to approx. 500C. The intense heat will incinerate any built up grime and then the remaining ash can be wiped away.

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The right oven is an important piece in your kitchen. Whether you use it often or not, you'll want it to work well when you're cooking for the family or entertaining. Ovens come with an array of features and settings (often marked with symbols that can seem confusing at first glance). Some of these functions are essential, whereas others are just nice to have.

Settings like fan-forced mode are common across almost all models and tend to get the most use, but knowing how the other settings work and what they're useful for will go a long way towards helping you get the most out of your oven.

This feature uses the fan with the heat coming from the element surrounding it (unlike conventional ovens that use the top and bottom element with no fan). The oven generally heats up more quickly, evenly and efficiently using this feature. Fan-forced works well for multi-shelf cooking, reheating, pastries and roasts.

A traditional/conventional oven uses heat from the top and bottom elements with no fan. It provides reasonably even heating, but tends to be slightly hotter towards the top, allowing food to brown on top. This mode is ideal for baking single trays of biscuits, scones, muffins, slices and egg dishes like quiche or baked custard.

The gentler cousin of fan-forced, the fan assist function is ideal for foods that require a short cooking time and only use a maximum of two shelves. Heat comes from the top and bottom element with a fan that circulates the hot air, which results in a slightly faster cooking time.

This is a good setting when browning on the base is required for foods like pizzas, meat pies, fruit pies, focaccia and bread. It uses high heat and a combination of 'base heat' and fan or fan-forced where heat comes from the elements surrounding the fan as well as the bottom element.

This function makes use of both the grill element and the fan, with your oven alternating between each one. It's ideal for cooking large cuts of meat like roasts, or meats that require longer cooking times like chicken legs and sausages (the fan disperses the heat while the grill roasts from above). It's also great for baked vegetables and for browning and crisping the top of pasta and potato bakes.

This is an alternative to pizza mode where heat comes from the bottom element only. It's ideal for foods that require a crispy base, like pizza, where you don't want the top to burn. When using this feature it's best to cook in the lower half of the oven and use aluminium trays for even browning.

Using heat from the grill element is ideal for smaller, tender cuts of meat (as you run the risk of burning larger cuts without them being cooked through) as well as toasties and melts. Unless stated in the instructions, you should grill with the oven door closed and use one of the top two shelf positions. In some models the grill area will be separate to the main oven cavity.

This setting doesn't use heat, but rather air is circulated by the oven to defrost the food. This mode can also be used to raise yeast dough and to dry fruit, vegetables and herbs. However, to reduce the chance of bacteria growing on food at unsafe temperatures, we'd recommend defrosting food in the fridge or microwave.

This setting uses heat from the elements surrounding the fan as well as the smaller element above the food. It allows you to preheat your oven quicker than you could in fan-forced mode. It's also ideal for cooking frozen pre-packed foods, which can be placed straight into the oven from the freezer.

Also known as assisted cooking functions, these include recipes that correspond with the information programmed in the oven. Simply follow the recipe and the oven will work out the operating mode, shelf position, cooking time and temperature.

If you cook lots of meat and roasts, an oven with a food probe will help take the guesswork out of achieving tender, juicy meat. Simply insert the probe into the fleshiest part of the meat and select the desired temperature or degree of cooking. The oven will complete cooking once the temperature is reached.

This setting uses the lowest temperature and the top element, providing a warm, moist environment that's perfect for proving yeast dough. Keep in mind any oven can prove dough by simply preheating to the lowest temperature and then turning it off. Place a bowl of water on the bottom and then put the dough on a shelf above, covered with a towel.

These can be used to separate an extra-large oven cavity into two separate spaces that can be operated simultaneously. For example, the top section operates as a grill, while the bottom section can be set to fan-forced.

This feature uses the top heating element as well as fan-forced mode in order to circulate hot dry air. With all the buzz around air fryers, this feature is fairly new in ovens. Our home economist Fiona Mair says if your oven doesn't have an air fry feature, you can achieve similar results by using the fan grill setting.

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