Controlling an ENO Oven

[Mandarin331]

Really daft really, but we have an ENO cooker with an oven which we have learnt to control with care (otherwise it can get to 270c with ease), however it still burns the bottom of anything cooked as the burners are under the floor of the oven. Previous cookers had the burner at the back which seemed better.

We've tried extra trays, double trays etc but no real difference. There must be hundreds of these out there, has anyone found out how to tame them?

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I never put anything on the bottom tray and always used the tray as far away from the base plate as possible, a bit limiting at times but never had problems with burning the bottom of things in fact the ENO oven distributes heat very well.

 

[Mandarin331]

Interesting, we do exactly the same but with different results

 

[Pasarell]

I installed a new ENO (Grande Large 3 burner) oven 2 weeks ago and last week roasted a leg of lamb with roast potatoes, parsnips etc. Lamb on the rack at the top and vegetables in a tray at the bottom. Nothing burned and all cooked just nicely. Very impressed with the heat distributed around the whole base after years of just heat from the back in previous ovens

 

[CJU]

Slight thread drift but has anyone else had the oven inner glass door explode while the oven is on ? It has happened twice with our Ena cooker.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Slight thread drift but has anyone else had the oven inner glass door explode while the oven is on ? It has happened twice with our Ena cooker.

It's almost certainly due to expansion of the glass it needs to be able to move slightly, is it fixed in tightly?

 

[CJU]

No both were quite loosely fixed and the second one was about 5 years old before it went bang. I wondered if it was just bad material that is used for the glass.