KitchenAid Oven Temp.- Bottomside of Pizza or Cake stays uncooked
I have a 2yo Kitchenaid oven, and my advice is first, don't use convection for cakes or pizza. Use the thermal oven. For pizza preheat to 500 degrees, then put the pizza on the lowest rack, and bake for 7-8 minutes.This way the bottom browns, and the top doesn't get broiled from the top element coming on during the bake cycle.
As for cakes, again place them on the low rack so that they get bottom heat. I keep my eye on the oven and when the broil element comes on I stick a piece of foil over the cake until it goes off. Otherwise it will set the top and the cake won't rise as much. Even doing that cakes don't rise as much as they did in my old oven, and they brown too much on top.
The convection oven does a good job of cookies, and the broil mode is okay.
I wish I hadn't bought this oven, but I didn't know about the upper (broil) element coming on during the bake cycle until I'd had it for awhile, and it was too late to return it.
If anyone's shopping for an oven, ask questions, and don't get one that maintains the oven temperature by activating the broil element when baking.
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Our new oven heats erratically. When a thermometer is placed in the middle rack it shows the oven 50 degrees or so below temp when the preheat light goes out and it takes up to 15 minutes to reach the set temperature. It then continues to climb up to 50 degrees over the set temperature and then falls 25 or 50 degrees below again. The control board and probe have been replaced but no change. The repair man said the thermometer is inaccurate (not true, it was checked in another oven), then said that all ovens take much longer to preheat than the controls indicate. We don't trust it to cook the turkey on Thanksgiving or the pies. The food sometimes comed out burnt and sometimes half raw.
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