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Meringues and cookies in deck oven?

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Xou

Meringues and cookies in deck oven?

Hello, i am opening my own pastry shop and i am hesitated on whether to get an convectional or a deck oven. My work will mainly be cakes, cookies, meringues, croissant and just one type of bread.

I heard i can make all these in a deck oven, yet i will have to lift my sheets over other sheets so the goods won't be directly sitting on the bottom of the deck.

I would love if anyone here can advice on this and if anyone previously did bake these types of goods in a deck oven, what was the temperatures for that?

Thanks in advance :)

 

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drogon

I don't have a true deck oven, but I regularly cook cakes in my Rofco B40. Seem to could out just fine - it's handy as I can get 2 x 9" round tins and 2 x 8" round tins on the top shelf. I set it to the same temp. I set my regular fan oven at - about 170-180.

Not tried meringues though - I have a fan oven with a DIY controller that cooks them at 60 just fine....

-Gordon

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MichaelLily

I have a RotoFlex and I bake everything between 350 and 450.  Don't have any trouble burning bottoms under 450.  Macarons and cookies turn out great.