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who is liking their wolf convection steam oven?

Posted by sue2012 (My Page) on
Sun, Oct 21, 12 at 11:14

Any suggestions or recipes ?
Anything that was an aha moment?
What not to do?
I am going to be experimenting with this soon.
Thanks.


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RE: who is liking their wolf convection steam oven?

Hello Sue2012, I just had a wolf steam oven installed a few weeks ago. So far, I love it. I do find the directions and sample recipes to be lacking. I think that more detail regarding the different settings is needed.

I have steamed/cooked cinnamon rolls - using the rolls setting. So far I have steamed tortillas, hot dogs, shrimp and yellow squash. They all turned out great.

The slow roast feature is great too. I cooked a pork tenderloin using this. It was perfect. I rubbed a little oil on the surface and it was nicely browned. I have a turkey breast cooking as we speak.

I would love to see some recipes from others.


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Hi bbmd,
Thanks for the response.
Is the slow roast like a crockpot?
I agree that the directions are a little vague.
They have updated their web site though.
I am hoping they will keep adding to it.
Please let me know how your turkey turned out and on what mode did you cook it on.
Thanks again.


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Please keep us informed. i am getting mine this week and hopefully i will have time to install this weekend. i wish there was a website that had recipes and instructions for this oven. i have a miele steam oven in another house and only use it for veggies. to small for anything else.


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Sue2012,

This is so exciting! I will be following this post closely. My Wolf steam/convection oven won't be delivered until our project is complete which is looking like next April!

Have fun with your new appliance.


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The Slow Roast is similar to a crock pot. You put the temp probe in your meat, stick it in the cold oven and choose Slow Roast. It then gives you a list of different meat choices. Surprisingly, there was not an option for turkey or poultry, but the last option was called "Individual Roast". If you choose this then you can select your desired probe temp. I chose 170 degrees. If you hit the TIME button, you can select your desired cook time. The range is between 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 hours. I chose 3 1/2 hours. I also put some stuffing under the turkey breast. When the breast was done, it was only slightly brown, so I switched to convection bake at 375. In about 3 or 4 minutes it was nicely browned. It was perfectly moist and devoured by DH and sons.

The sales rep at my local appliance store went to a product demonstration. Here's what she said:

"They put an 18lb turkey in it. They cooked a tray that contained halibut, shrimp, broccoli, asparagus, hot dogs all on one tray in about 10 min no preheating and flavor transfer between foods. Ice cream wrapped in phillo dough. The dough came out crispy and the ice cream was not melted!!"

I also just found this quick reference guide on the wolf website:

Here is a link that might be useful: Wolf Convection Steam Oven Reference Guide


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i thought i saw on a web site that you can hard boil eggs in the carton in the steam oven. has anyone tried this? and what settings.
thanks
chris


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Interesting. I posted several lengthy responses to a thread started by a Wolf factory rep, and now it seems the entire thread has disappeared. I gave numerous descriptions of using my wolf convection steam. I spent a lot of effort on it and now it's all gone.

Has anyone seen response from Wolf on any of these threads?


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RE: who is liking their wolf convection steam oven?

I'm going to take a guess that Gardenweb considered it advertising. After reading your post I went back and found another thread that the rep Jamie had posted in, and all of his posts are gone.


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i was wondering the same thing. keep looking for it and can't find it.


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So, gin_gin, you saw my posts??

Everyone else's posts are still here and only mine are gone. I said many good things about the wolf and a couple of critical things. I can't only be led to believe they didn't like what I said and had them deleted! Incredible.

This is my last post.


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RE: who is liking their wolf convection steam oven?

kmccall, I'm not sure if I saw your deleted posts or not, I was referring to your post above mine on Jan 31st. They deleted all of the Wolf rep's posts, maybe yours were deleted by accident along with his. You could try contacting Gardenweb and ask them. I understand being frustrated that your posts were deleted, but don't run off because of it.


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I like my Wolf Steam and Convection Oven but it is very hard to figure out. I wish they had better instructions on how to do settings on your own and more recipes with instructions so that I can get used to it.
Meile has so many recipes but their oven is only steam so they don't really incorporate the convection oven in them.
I am very disappointed in Wolf for such an expensive oven and dinky instructions and recipes. My $40 crockpot has better instructions and 4 times the recipes than my $3K Wolf oven!

I want to bake bread in it and it says nothing of what to do or settings. I am having to go to other manufacturers for their recipes and directions. I should have bought their ovens I guess instead. I have a wonderful product and don't want to ruin a whole dinner testing for the next month to get used to it.


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for bread nothing compares to it. what kind of bread are you trying to make? let me know and i can help you out.


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I would love any recipes for the steam oven.


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Thank you to all who have given their comments to how to use the Wolf Steam/Convection Oven. I really appreciate them all. I did chicken last night using the steam/convection setting and it turned out perfect. Crisp on the outside and tender juicy inside. Now I understand a little more what that setting is used for.

Wolf has a little help in their user manual, but doesn't give a break down of the uses for each of their settings and temperature etc. except one small paragraph and one recipe for an example to use and try.
It would sure help for more explanation of these operations and what works best for this or that setting,
at what temp is best to cook this or that using each setting.
What is the difference between the Convection Humid or Convection Steam exactly and why.
On their Auto Steam Bake section, they have a No-Knead Bread recipe that says to put the temperature at 425 degrees F. for 20 minutes. I have never baked bread at this high temp before and am afraid to do so. I guess I will try this recipe and maybe it will be amazing.
With all the comments and help I have received, I feel less intimidated to experiment and I think I understand more now. I was so excited to put this oven in our kitchen and I want to be thankful we did. With practice and use, I think it will earn a high mark in time. Maybe Wolf will come out with some better charts in the mean time for others like me that need that extra help with time, temperature and setting and explaining why and what the oven is doing in these settings so that my experiments will more fun and less intimidating. If I understand the workings then I can have fun to play around with it and make my own recipes etc.

The Wolf Steam/Convection Oven is beautiful and I love the size, water tank that can be removed and extremely easy cleanup and very well quality built. It is just missing a really great manual and recipe book with it. On a scale of 1-10 I would say the manual you get is a 5 and for such a nice high end oven, it should be at least a 9.

Thank you all for your help it really did help!


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RE: who is liking their wolf convection steam oven?

I can't answer all your questions, but one of them at least. The difference between the Convc. Humid and Convc. Steam is that Convc. humid does not add any steam it just doesn't allow any to escape either so it traps any moisture that is in the oven from cooking inside the entire time, or at least that is how I understand it.

The Convc. Steam actually adds moisture in the form of steam to the oven while cooking.

Hope that helps a bit. We just started using ours as our remodel just finished just before XMAS so we are still learning as we go as well.

Don't be afraid to experiment, just don't do it with large amounts of things, start small, see how things go, learn as you go, just don't make it an entire meal. Use the recipes in the manual, they are always a good starting point, and don't question them until after you try them, they have been tested by Wolf so you know they will work.

Also, if you are close to a Wolf showroom they offer a cooking demo where you can go and get a great meal and then ask questions you have about your oven.

Phil


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k4now, yes there is a need for more recipes and information on combos. Also, it would be nice if the different manufacturers used the same lingo - Gagg has 2 controls 1 for steam, ( 0%,30%, 60% 80% and 100% IIRC ) and another dial to set the electric element heat . The 0% means any moisture generated during cooking is vented, 30% means any moisture generated from the cooking process stays inside, and the higher numbers indicate steam actually being introduced into the cooking chamber. Other manufacturers have similar settings using different terms - most confusing IMHO is Viking which has a setting they call TruSteam - which is actually the 30% , no steam being added. As a result, it is tough to use recipes distributed by one manufacturer unless you determine what they mean by their different settings, As to baking bread, it is not uncommon to start with high heat, some of the recipes go even higher than that - for example Jason's :Quick Ciabatta starts at 500. BTW, I don't use the mixing method in that recipe and use an autolyse instead.

Here is a link that might be useful: jason's quick ciabatta


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i bake all my bread at 425. if you make sourdough nothing beats a combi oven. definitely must autolyse.


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Does the door and handle get hot during and after cooking? The Miele states there's does not. Ordering appliances on Monday


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RE: who is liking their wolf convection steam oven?

do you mean the outside? if so not hot at all. really going to be nice when they make a cookbook for it though


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