Comments on: Oven temperatures

By: lynda

lynda — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:41:52 +0000

thanks John, now hopefully I can cook without burning everything. It has taken me a long time to figure out

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:07:15 +0000

Hi John , I would like to ask you if I did understand well what your saying. When the recipe calls for 180c/160c fan/gas 4, it means that I have to put my fan assisted oven on 160c., and 160c means gas 3. Thanks for your help very appreciated.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:21:30 +0000

I have found this information very helpful but still can’t for the life of me understand why supermarkets don’t just print the extra temperatures for fan assisted ovens on the cooking instructions. Surely this would be easier as most ovens (intergral or freestanding) nowadays come fan assisted. The oven I have recently bought has a double oven with the lower being fan assisted and the smaller upper one being conventional type.

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:22:00 +0000

This site is fantastic! After a few disasters, last being apple crumble exploding all over the oven, I decided to check temps for fan ovens. I have never cooked with a fan oven before and this info is invaluable. Thank you very much John. Joy

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:04:26 +0000

Just found this great site and was about to ask exactly the same as Eileen; if recipe says Gas Mk8 I reckon between 6 and 7 to allow for the fan?

By: Free Movies

Free Movies — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:29:36 +0000

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By: Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:49:07 +0000

Dear John, I have a fan assisted gas oven, if my recipe says cook on gas mark 5, do I need to reduce the temperature to gas mark 4 or 3.

Thanks Eileen

By: Lucy Treacy

Lucy Treacy — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:14:53 +0000

I have A Necht Electric Convection Oven and I have lost the instruction book can you please advise where I could get one or download one? Thanks

Lucy

By: Adrian Oakley

Adrian Oakley — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:00:37 +0000

We have a new electric cooker which has the option of with or without fan. Without fan (conventional) set on, say 180, a portable oven thermometer in the middle of the oven reads 180. If the oven is now set to 160 with fan, (the equivalent) the portable thermometer still reads 180. Why is this?

By: Ann Ogden

Ann Ogden — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:30:44 +0000

We have recently had a new cooker the fan assisted oven has a rear fan but a top and bottom element I am experimenting at the moment the recommendation is bottom heat with fan for sponge cakes 180c but they burn at the bottom I am on my third cake mix any suggestions I am currently experimenting with each configuration top element Bot element both elements etc help!

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:28:26 +0000

@ Lola and Anne – I wish I could help you, but I have never seen an oven marked like that, I would guess that the numbers are equivalent to gas marks, but if not then I have no idea. Sorry

By: Anne Keeling

Anne Keeling — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:18:21 +0000

Hi I have exactly the same problem as Lola, my electric oven dial is numbered 1 to 10, surely there is a guide for electric ovens that simply states what temperature each number represents WITHOUT giving GAS conversion charts, please help

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:02:20 +0000

@ Lola – I have no idea how that works, maybe the best thing would be to use an oven thermometer to work out what the numbers on your dial mean. You can pick them up pretty cheaply from any kitchen shop.

By: Lola

Lola — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:58:29 +0000

I have recently moved house and don’t know how to convert gas mark to electric – I used to use a gas cooker but in my new house there is an electric one. The table above doesn’t help because the temperature dial goes up in ones, so 1 2 3 4 5 etc… I don’t think it is gas mark. The recipe I am using is for a tart base and I need to convert gas mark 7 to electric. Can anyone help?

By: patricia

patricia — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:52:52 +0000

Im using an old Mary Berry book for her traditional christmas recipe. The first two turned out ok with me adjusting the fan oven temp to what I thought, but were a bit dry. I read somewhere that you should reduce the temp by 25% to get the correct temp for a fan oven. However, I wanted to get it absolutely correct and, having found this conversion table, it seems to confirm that the 25% less rule is about right. Thanks for making this easier for me. Many thanks.