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Help! Steam Oven?

by Bill Spohn » Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:59 pm

I have in hand a recipe I very much wish to try. The problem is that it calls for cooking in a steam oven at 95 C./200 F. for a certain time.

The problem - I have had zero experience with steam ovens and no idea if a recipe intended for them can be done in a regular oven, or what temperature/time would be an equivalent.

I found an equivalency formula for relating convection oven recipes to regular oven (Multiply the cook time by 1.15, Multiply the heat by 1.15) and wondered if such a formula exist for steam to conventional.....
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Re: Help! Steam Oven?

by Jeff Grossman » Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:16 pm

On a quick look around... the best advice is that you can make a regular oven act like a steam oven by placing a reservoir of water on the floor of the oven and let it get hot enough to boil.
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Re: Help! Steam Oven?

by Robin Garr » Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:02 am

Jeff Grossman wrote:On a quick look around... the best advice is that you can make a regular oven act like a steam oven by placing a reservoir of water on the floor of the oven and let it get hot enough to boil.

That's a standard technique for baguettes and other Euro-style breads, as I expect you know, Jeff. You can speed it up further by pouring a teakettle full of boiling water into the pan.
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Re: Help! Steam Oven?

by Bill Spohn » Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:54 am

Thanks guys!
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Re: Help! Steam Oven?

by Jeff Grossman » Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:01 pm

Robin Garr wrote:
Jeff Grossman wrote:On a quick look around... the best advice is that you can make a regular oven act like a steam oven by placing a reservoir of water on the floor of the oven and let it get hot enough to boil.

That's a standard technique for baguettes and other Euro-style breads, as I expect you know, Jeff. You can speed it up further by pouring a teakettle full of boiling water into the pan.

Yes, most of the talk about steam ovens is by bread bakers.

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