For example, you can buy an oven for baked food at home, and a steamer for steamed food. Oven and steamer, one is baked and the other is steamed, so they taste very different. The food baked in the oven is chewy, and the ingredients steamed in the steamer are softer and more tender.
If you are used to western food, bread and cake, or prefer crispy food, the oven is undoubtedly more practical. People who are used to Chinese diet and pay attention to health, especially the elderly at home, so steamed vegetables are light and chewy. Compared with the oven, the steamer is more practical.
You can also choose to buy a steamer and an oven at the same time, but it also depends on the size of the kitchen. If the kitchen area is still relatively large, you can buy two at the same time, so you can eat for a change, which will be much more convenient. Actually, it's good to use a steamer now.
Precautions for oven use:
To bake things in a small oven, basically you just need to put the food in, but a medium-sized oven usually contains three floors to choose from. As long as the temperature of fire and water is not specified in the recipe, the baking tray can be placed in the middle layer.
If the upper fire temperature is high and the lower fire temperature is low, unless the upper and lower fire temperatures of the oven can be adjusted separately, it is generally that the upper and lower fire temperatures are added and divided by two, and then the baking tray can be placed on the upper layer, but always pay attention to whether the surface is burnt.
Small ovens burn easily. At this time, you can cover the food with a layer of aluminum foil, or open the oven door slightly to dissipate heat. Because the medium-sized oven has enough space, the temperature can be controlled, unless the temperature is too high, too close to the fire or baked for too long, it will not be so burnt. Treatment of uneven furnace temperature Although a medium-sized oven can control the temperature, it is still difficult to compare with a professional large oven.
Take making Chinese and western snacks as an example. Because the temperature of the medium-sized oven is not as stable as that of the professional large oven, we must pay more attention to the change of temperature when baking, and we must turn or cool the snacks at the right time to avoid the uneven expansion height on both sides of the cake or bread, or the biscuits are burnt and immature.