Gas Cooker

[1581960]

Guidance for using a gas oven please. If I set the oven for say gas mark 6, approximately how long does it take for the oven to reach that temperature? Is there a rule of thumb for various marks?

[woofgang]

that’s going to vary by cooker and also ambient temp of the kitchen. The basic pressed metal type cookers will lose most heat so take longest to get to temp and have to work harder to stay there. the more insulated the cooker, the lower temp the setting and the higher the ambient temp, the faster the cooker will heat up and the less hard it will have to work to stay there. Best thing is to get an oven thermometer and check. I got a good one from Ikea, the kins with a probe and external read out, for 7 quid.

[Buenchico]

Forget times.

Forget thermometers.

Use your ears!

You'll be able to hear the burners roaring away while the oven heats up. When it reaches the correct temperature the supply to the burners is reduced and your oven becomes almost silent. Easy peasy!

[woofgang]

Chris, that’s how you tell when it has....but not how you predict when it will....although I guess you could make your own chart.

[gingejbee]

^^^do you really need to predict when it will? It's a matter of minutes.
And when it has reached required temperature, you'll know how long it took for evermore.