Does anyone have a "hot air" oven? If so, please help!

[InTheZenGarden]

The house we recently bought has a Tecnik electric double oven. The smaller top part is a conventional oven and grill. The larger lower section is a hot air oven..... initially I thought this meant a fan oven, but the maximum temp it goes up to is 190C, the manual says that being hot air, you don't need such high cooking temps. Which is fine, but it doesn't tell me how to adjust recipes when cooking in it!

Does anyone have one? How much do I drop the temperature when baking?

Thanks :)

it sounds to me like it means fan. Do you hear a fan start when you turn it on, and is there a fan cover on the back wall?

on ours you can knock about 20C off the recipe temp while you get used to it. It won't put a proper skin on a rice pudding

the makers probably have an instruction and/or recipe book, you could try their website.

Thanks :)
Yes, there is a fan, I did wonder if it was another name for a fan oven.

Does your fan oven go up to "normal" temperatures? e.g Roast potatoes as far as I know should go in a 220C oven... but the max on ours is 190!

mine has a max of a bit over 200 (it has a Max setting beyond that) but I think the instructions said knock off 20C because of the fan

If I put roasts in at 220 they would be cremated in 5 mins flat! Why don't you have a practice run and see how hot the oven gets?