1. It was my first step by step recipe
2. I posted pictures of my oven and every other reader of this blog immediately had a gazillion questions about it!
Ok, I tend to exaggerate a bit but in this case, its only a teeny bit. True story.
Considering all the emails I have replied (happily, may I add) on the subject, this post is terribly late. But then, here it is, finally, after a break of 9 days, my longest in a while.
This, is my oven.
And this here, is the list of FAQs. Go crazy folks!
Q. Where did you buy the oven? What’s the price?
Amma got this for me from Shah Enterprises in Kottayam, Kerala (that’s my hometown). The brand name is OK. I am positive you’d get this in most home appliances stores in Kerala although I am not sure of other places. If anyone has seen or heard of this, please leave a comment.
The price is about Rs. 1200. No, I am not going to convert that into USD for you. Sorry, too lazy.
Q. How big is it?
Hmm.. not that big. Its the size of.. hmm.. ok let me put it this way. An 8×8 tray will fit into it just right. Anything bigger, you will have to maneuver it by tilting the sides, etc. Amma has a bigger one so this is available in various sizes, I am sure.
Q. What’s the maximum temperature? Can it bake everything from cakes to bread to cookies?
The max temperature is 220C. Usually, cakes and cookies are backed at 180C. For bread, you need a slightly higher temperature but I have baked plain white bread with very good results. In fact, all the baked good in this site are made in this oven (Update: I upgraded to a Delonghi 26L table-top oven mid 2011).
Q. Does the oven come with a warranty? Is it worth carrying all the way from India to somewhere abroad?
The answer to this really depends on how bad you want that oven. I wanted it real bad because the prices in Singapore for ovens is atrocious. I am used to this since amma has had it for over 20 years. Having said that, this thing works on a filament coil heating system so if the filament gets rusted or broken, it will result in a loose contact which is frustrating, especially while baking. So it depends on your luck on the most part. Some may last only a year but most will go on and on forever.
Good luck and if you have more questions, leave a comment and I will answer them 🙂
Disclaimer: I am not recommending this oven to anyone. This post is more informational since a lot of you had questions about the oven when I put up pics in the butterscotch blondies step by step recipe page. The oven is very basic, quite small and may not work well for all recipes that need to be baked. However, the ones you see on this blog have all been tried and tested in it so you can safely go ahead!
Does u need to set temperature fir this ? I have the same otg but numbers are nt showing bcoz its very old my aunt gave me. How to use it can u please tell me
my mom’s is a very old version of this and has no temperature setting. it’s usually around 200-210C so she adjusts baking time accordingly. Just check for done-ness 5-10 mins before what recipe specifies and you will soon get a hang of the oven after a few trials.
This was the one and only post which mentions something about the oven in details.Thanks for taking the throuble of saving us 😉
Well my question was how many minutes did this oven take to bake a medium sized cake? (Half kg cake maybe). If the recipe calls for a 20minute baking time, this wonderful oven took 35 minutes!! And if I tried baking a pudding, it took as long as an hour. That’s the reason why I was wondering if it usually takes the same time or does my oven need servicing?
Hi Alisha, yes it takes around 30-40 mins to bake a 500gram cake in this oven so I don’t think your oven needs servicing just based on that. I would take it for a check up if there are hot spots, like if one side of your cake is cooking faster or burning compared to the rest.
Hi , I have same oven but kept away as I don’t know how to use. Please post some recipe of cake with perfect timing and if any other food items that can be easily cooked in it , thanks for your post long time searching something related to this oven
hi pooja, unfortunately i don’t use this oven any more so can’t post anything new. if you look through some of my older cake recipes, they were all baked in this oven, so do take a look
Hi I have this oven ,my mom used to bake cakes in it. I want to know that these days we are getting silicone molds. Can we use silicone molds in this oven ?
yes you can
Need your urgent help!! I’ve bought this oven and I’m trying to bake a simple basic vanilla and chocolate cake in it. I tried different recipes from the book as well as from online recipes but to my disappointment, none of the cake came out well. Sometimes it’s undercooked, sometimes it’s burnt and sometimes it’s raw in the middle and overcooked from the edges. Please tell what am I doing wrong? And please please tell me on what temperature should I bake the cake in this oven? Do I need to pre heat it and if so then on what temperature? I will really appreciate if you can help me. It’s urgent because my husband’s bday is coming near and I really wish to bake a decent cake for him. Hope you understand. Thank you very much
P.s sorry for the long msg
You need to preheat the oven. My oven is become considerably old, due to which it makes no difference at what temperature the knob is turned to. It remains raw or undercooked in the centre because the sides get baked faster ( I assume there is no even heating in this oven). So what you can do is, take a hand towel, cut it into stripes equivalent to the height of your tin, make it wet and squeeze all the water allowing the towel to remain moist. And pin the towel stripe around the outside the tin. This will slow down the faster baking of the outsides to some extent. Except for this you need to constantly keep an eye on your cake. Always insert a toothpick to see if it’s cooked that will prevent burning.
thank you for sharing the tips Alisha!
Hi pls can u show me how to set the glass in this oven ?? I have ordered it through snapdeal..and they dont give me any manual..so can you help me ??
what do you mean by “set the glass?”
Hey I have a similar oven too. I would like to know if we can use non stick baking trays in this or only aluminium will do?
you can use non-stick too
Thank you for the recipes.
I’m going to try some baking now
I have the same oven, Got it from Odisha. I simply love it. Cakes from these ovens are simply the best. But i need to know something. There are a lot of silicone bakeware present in the market. Can we use them in this oven.
Yes you can Shehla
Can you tall we have in India this oven and prize please
i can’t answer that for all places in india. you can check with your local retailers