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Looking across the parts of this class I'm really happy to see this type of content back on ChefSteps. I love the recipes, but the details on things are awesome. Thanks
Thank you, @mark.slezak. We’re excited over it—let us know if you have any suggestions after you’ve had more time to go through the material and cook some of the recipes.
Perfect timing, guys! Just got a Breville countertop oven/air fryer. Not cheap, but it works so good I've retired my old gas oven. It hadn't occurred to me before that the countertop versions are actually better, but the above description on this issue is absolutely correct.
The Breville countertop convection oven is used for most meals for our family of four. We really enjoy how fast it heats up and that is uses less power and $. While there's a limit to what it holds, you can be a little strategic with sides. Maybe they get done ahead of time and held on top of the oven covered with foil while the main dish is done. Or maybe the sides are cooked other ways.
Great jobs guys..as always, Now I want a Breville Oven... :-)
I moved into a new apartment three weeks ago and my mom got me a Breville Smart Oven Air as a housewarming gift. I literally have not turned on my big oven since moving in, and this series could not have come at a better time! Hoping to make some half-decent air-fryer fries so I'd love to know when The Fry Chronicles will drop!
I've been using the Breville PID controlled oven since they first came on the scene. I find it's best utility is in its ability to keep low temperatures precisely. I've not seen it perform better at high temps than a larger digital or analog controlled unit. If you want to ace a chicken you set the thing at 135 to 145 ( however you like your bird ) and leave it in there. Like in SV you're checking the end temp by not allowing the cooking environment to exceed what you want. Then sear it with the roasting mode. Put a pork loin in it..set to 140 and let it ride with a remote probe to let you know when it's done. Let it cool a bit and then blast it in the table top oven to sear ( not so good ) or in a larger oven broiler ( better ) or one of the newer high temp jobs like an Inferno ( very good ) and serve.
Breville caught on quick. Cooking was moving to more and more precision in techniques and they saw that and met it. As a result I've got a cooking lab full of their stuff and find it near indispensable.
if only the control freak would come down in price by... 3/4's !
I bought 2 on Ebay for 600 each. I paid near 3 times that for the first one.
I now buy only breville, as i find they have the best designed equipment ive found for the price.
The PID oven is sensational, mines battered and scarred from constant use, and yet keeps on punching above its weight.
Has anyone redesigned a home kitchen with one or two of these ovens built in or do they have to be on the countertop?
Hi! What does Chefsteps think of the Breville smart oven without the air fry function? I can't find the air fry model where I live, and I belive Sage (the EU branch of Breville) only sells the non-air fry version in my country. Is it just as good at all the other functions, or is it a lesser oven in general?
they are still great, basically all air fry is is the high convection cooked in the wire basket...
I just got the Breville Smart Oven/Air Fryer from Bed Bath and Beyond on-line. I’m in love. So far I have made bread and dehydrated apples (yes it’s a dehydrator. Tonight I’m going to make a frozen lasagna with the Bake function. Go for it.
Is the Breville Smart Oven a significant upgrade over a regular convection oven for baking desserts (cookies, scones, kouign-amman, etc..) and sourdough breads (does it even fit??) in terms of flavors ?
It sounds like it cooks more evenly, it shoulds therefore be "more tasty", right ?
Is there a 220V equivalent brand and model that anyone can recommend that’s similar to the Breville Smart Oven with air fryer?
Perhaps try the European counterpart from Sage? https://www.sageappliances.com/uk/en/products/ovens/bov860.html
What do you guys think about the countertops combi ovens, have you used any? I like the idea of having at home a small version of my Rational I have in the restaurant.
8 years ago, we bought a Cuisinart Toaster Oven 8 years ago. Not smart, just a toaster oven and it was $100........ 8 years ago. Now we have this new technology in the Smartest Oven. I don't think that this oven would be priced at $100 today, it is worth way more than that.
xiaomi has a control freak style induction pad for around AUD $130, it is sensational with a rotatry knob, programmable pre-sets and a companion app that lets you tweak the pre-sets as you like. I use it on power level 10% for eggs/pancakes etc and at 35% for searing and at the pre-set temperatures for simmering and small batch sous vide. https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/xiaomi-dcl01cm
Hi Richard,
Did you made any sour dough or other breads in the oven? Just curious. Don't want a big thing in my kitchen but it needs to bake home made Frenchbreads and pastries.
I have had my Breville Smart Oven Air for close to a year now. I have used my installed oven exactly twice since then, and once was for pizza using a baking steel before I got my Breville Pizzaiolo (another amazing product). I bake regularly, including sourdough bread, usually in an Emile Henry bread pot, but also on the baking steel griddle. All of my baked goods turn out great. It's also terrific for all other roasting, baking, and air frying uses. My only minor complaint is that it doesn't make great toast, but who needs toast when it does everything else perfectly?
Boy I have been trying to get these exact points across to friend and family for 40 years but it is near impossible to convert anyone to believe how great small ovens (toaster ovens) are. I have worn out at least 6 over the years and almost never use my big oven for anything, OK maybe a 20 pound turkey, oh and I have never made on piece of toast in any of them.
does anybody knows if I could use the breville smart oven air for fermentation?
Hello Natalie, Oh for sure. The proof or dehydrating setting with no fan works well. I make tempeh at home using this. I also use a probe thermometer with an alarm to keep it on track since the temperature can increase with the fermentation activity.
Hi Matthew - great thank you! greets from Switzerland - Natalie
How do you guys feel about having these new precision ovens in a professional setting? For example, I am envisioning one of them in the pastry section for a la minute tasks or other bits when the big combis are being used. do you think they will hold up?
Hi Barry, I would say that they would hold up great for that use.
I don’t know if this will even get a response but I love you guys and have been following your lead in the kitchen for sometime now and recently I asked my partner for the Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro for my birthday only to go online and be very much alarmed by the reports of breaking glass doors. Funny enough I told her maybe we should hold off and she told me it was being delivered today. So now I don’t know what to do. Professional reviews don’t mention it at all but all the retail sites have no small amount of people posting reviews with the same problem. I even found lawyers trying to get a class action together. Can anyone give me some advice as to what not to do to have my oven door break and/or I’d love to hear that people have had a lot of success with it and I have nothing to worry about. Please?
All I can really say is that in our experience here in the studio.. We have used about 40 ovens to this point. And not one has had the glass break.
Seems like here in the UK the only option is the Smart Oven™ Air Fryer. Is it different from the Joule® Oven Air Fryer Pro available in the States? If so, any ETA on coming to the British market? And if not, would it work with the Joule app?
I just got the Smart Oven. Has anybody tried a Leahy type loaf in one?
