Oven and hob features that make your Masterchef life easier!
Technology can bring you to tears with millions of appliances stacked away in your cupboards taking up space, or you can concentrate on one special appliance - your oven and hob. Here are some of the features you might want to investigate when you're next having your kitchen renovated or buying a new oven.
- Double ovens offer flexibility as well as extra capacity - you can set each oven to a different temperature.
- Temperature gauges in the oven help to get a better idea of how hot it is inside (more specific than the thermostat).
- A deep gas wok burner (better convection of heat up the wok - the way it's meant to work).
- A gas hob is easier than an electric one to deglaze your pan (and look super MasterChef-like!).The heat on a gas hob is alos easier to control and reacts quicker to changing temperatures - electric hobs need to lose some heat before they cool down, usually by transferring it into your food!
- Top and bottom grills - for crisping the bottom and burning the top, at the same time or separately.
- Electronic temperature controls help you get a more specific temperature.
- Timers can help and cause frustration, and it'll be your preference as to whether you choose a timer that just gives you an alarm or one that automatically turns off the oven when the time is up.
- Auto-timers can be good for slow-cooking, especially when you're having a dinner party or cooking while you're out of the house.
- Self-cleaning ovens are good, but a slight misnomer. They certainly don't clean themselves but they are made of materials that improves cleaning ease. However an oven that has a protolytic cleaning system basically burns/carbonises any remaining dirt or food, it becomes ash and therefore easy to remove.
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