What oven temp does Jamie Oliver want me to use?!

[MerryBlueberry]

Recipe says 180, but usually things say 180/160 fan. Does he mean electric/gas or fan?!?

Most likely 180 fan as most ovens are fan these days.Gas would have a mark number.

That's for an ordinary oven - for a fan oven it would be 160

... according to this site

And this one

Can't believe it isn't specified, tbh. That's really poor editing!

GM4 is 180 in a normal oven. If you have a fan oven then you want 160.

Jamie Oliver’s recipes are well known for being a bit approximate. Stick to Mary Berry or Delia Smith for baking and sauces. And invest in an oven thermometer so you can see what temperature your oven really is. My fan oven is 20 deg hotter than the dial says. No wonder my cakes kept burning!

Oh that’s interesting about the oven temp! We usually Roast potatoes at 180 in our fan. I’ve never seen a recipe not state 180/160 fan. Had a look at other things in his site to see if there was a comparison but nope!

Have you read the information pages at the front (or the back). That's where you're told things about the oven temps, egg sizes - anything standard so the recipe is constantly saying use large eggs etc. if it's not specified then it's just bad editing

I often find JO’s recipes inaccurate on temperature, quantities and timing. Especially the 15/30 minute ones where rather than telling you how long to cook something for he says “while you make the salad”- well, that depends how fast you are at making salad, doesn’t it, and I bet most home cooks don’t do it as fast as he does. I prefer Nigella and Nigel Slater- they are also better at explaining what “done” looks like, so even if your oven is hotter or cooler than it claims, you have a decent chance of it working.