Cuisinart TOB-260N Instructions and Recipes - Page 12

to circulate heated air around food as it cooks. Speed Convection circulates air at a faster rate than regular Convection. Speed Convection may be selected with most cooking functions: Bake, Broil, Roast, Pizza, Sandwich, Keep Warm or Leftover. Speed Convection does not require any preheating before cooking foods - rather the timer will begin to count down as soon as you press Start/Stop. Speed Convection can be selected or turned off at any time as you are setting the function - during preheating (to eliminate the preheat) or during cooking. When baking fresh pizza, it is important to preheat the pizza stone, so if you opt to combine Speed Convection with the Pizza function, it is recommended that you preheat the stone before putting the pizza in the oven to bake. When using Speed Convection, reduce cooking temperatures by 25ºF. When using Convection shorten cooking times. First select the function and set the oven temperature and time. Add food to be cooked directly in the oven and then press the Speed Conv button to activate the convection fan. The oven will display the Speed Convection icon. Press Start/Stop to begin cooking. If regular convection is already turned on, you may change from regular convection to Speed Convection by simply pressing the Speed Conv button. If you do this while the oven is preheating in the Bake or Pizza function, the display will immediately switch from Preheating to Ready and the timer will start counting down. DUAL COOK Dual Cook is a special feature that enables you to combine any two cooking function or two temperatures and run them consecutively. With Dual Cook you program separate times and temperatures for each of the two different functions or program two different temperatures and times within the same function. This is ideal for those recipes that require multiple cooking steps. The functions that you may program using Dual Cook are Bake, Broil, Roast, Pizza, Sandwich and Keep Warm. Dual Cook is the also the ideal setting for dishes like casseroles that benefit from top-browning or for tougher cuts of meats. Some examples of how you might use Dual Cook include Bake and then Broil (to top brown your food for a minute or two), Bake at a high temperature for a period of time and then at a lower temperature to achieve fork-tender meats with crisp exteriors, or any baking function plus Keep Warm to ensure that casseroles are at serving temperature after they are baked. Here are a few examples: FOOD First function/temp/time Slow cooked ribs Bake/375°F/45 minutes Casserole Bake/375°F/50 minutes Roasting meats Nachos Roast/400°F/30 minutes Bake/350°F/5 minutes Second function/temp/ time Bake/250°F/1 hour 30 minutes Keep Warm/150°F/3 to 30 minutes Roast/300°F/30 minutes Broil/500°F/5 minutes To program this feature press the Dual Cook button. The oven will display the functions you may select for the first cooking cycle. Turn and press the dial to select the first function: Bake, Broil, Roast, Pizza, Sandwich or Keep Warm. Select the temperature and time for this function. When you press the dial, the oven will again display only those functions that you can select for the second function. For example, when you select Bake for the first function, Bake, Broil and Keep Warm will be the options for the second function. Turn and press the dial to select the second function. Then select the temperature and time for this function. Put the food in the oven (if your first function is Bake, wait until the oven preheats and the display changes from Preheating to Ready). Press Start/Stop to start heating the oven. The display will turn blue and it will run through the first cooking function for your set time. When the first cycle is finished, the oven will beep and automatically switch to the second cooking function for your set time. When the time reaches zero for the second function, the oven will beep, the display will turn white, and the heating elements will turn off. You may stop cooking and turn off the heating elements at any time by pressing the Start/Stop button. When the oven is running in the first function, you may check your settings for the second function by pushing the Dual Cook button. The display will 12