Steam convection oven for home

david_111729

I wanted to give my opinion on this countertop combo oven. Its pretty slick. You can toast items, steam items, and combo convection with steam. Its great for bread. Heres what I made the other day.

I used the simple 5 minute a day bread recipe but you can use whichever you like.

Mix the ingredients. I am using 100% bread flour to 70% water 1% yeast and 1.5% salt

Let sit overnight

shape your ball

Throw into oven and steam at 100 degrees for 30 minutes to proof

Then set it to the bread function and blast it at 425 for 35 minutes.

you can see some steam escaping the oven

Its a nice crust.

I havent purchased bread since I bought the oven.

Its a cuisinart CSO-300 for those that are interested. Its great for steam roasting chicken as well. Its obviously not as robust as a true combi oven but it works surprisingly well.

Brandon_Byrd_40557

There's a big thread about this model over at eGullet. The consensus seems to be that it's pretty rad. I want one; when my toaster oven dies (which probably won't be for a long long time) I'm going to replace it with this -- or whatever version of it exists at the time. I just wish it were slightly larger (enough for a quarter sheet pan). For now, I'm sticking to the Lahey/Dutch Oven bread method. I hope this product succeeds and encourages other manufacturers to enter into the small home combi oven market.