Baking is like a therapy for me, I started baking in oven after my little one was born and it worked as stress buster for me.
That time we bought 21 L LG microwave convection oven as we were not sure how much we would be using it. But my love for baking kept growing and I kept on learning new new recipes and trying in my small microwave .
I have baked breads, cookies, buns, pizza, bati and many more items in my LG microwave .
But frankly I was not so satisfied with microwave oven baking as end results were not up to mark. As it was 21 ltr oven I need to bake limited quantity every time. So my baking time and electricity consumption was increasing.
So we finally decided to buy proper oven and our search started with all available brands.
What we searched before buying oven?
- Capacity
- Temperature settings
- Reviews
- Multiple uses
- Baking time
- How much you can bake in one go
Why above points are important !!
- It’s really important to decide how many ltr oven you need to buy as per your baking requirements, here you should consider future needs as well. You won’t be changing your oven any time soon
- Temperature settings is important as there are many recipes that need higher temperature. In many ovens the max temperature provided is 200 – 220 °C
- Reviews, user feedback is also important as good looking and feature pack product does not mean it’s good.
- We should always consider oven which has multiple features like bake, toast & grill are most common one
- Timer is another important feature as if you want to bake multiple trays in one go then you might need longer time to cook. Many ovens come with just 60 min timer
- How much you can bake in one go, again if you want to make large batches and want to cook it in one go & if you have smaller capacity oven then it will consume a lot of time & energy
After our search we finally decided to buy Borosil – Prima 60 L OTG as it was one of the few which fulfill almost all of my requirements. So let’s see why I choose to buy Borosil.
Features
- It has multiple functions that includes convection, rotisserie, grill, bake and toast
- As it’s Borosil it has borosilicate Double Glass Door
- Adjustable Temperature Control 90° – 250°C, max temperature is 250°C
- 0 – 120 minutes mechanical timer, it was really important as when you are baking for many people your oven can bake continuously for 120 minutes
- It has keep warm function, which will keep oven running at set min temperature to keep your food warm
- Power Indicator automatically turns on when the timer is set
- Motorized rotisserie for uniform grilling function available in Borosil Prima Oven Toaster Griller
- 12 Stage heating options in Prima Oven Toaster Griller
- Illuminated chamber helps in baking as you can keep an eye while you are baking.
- As it’s 60 ltr we cam keep multiple trays at once
Items included with Borosil 60lt
- 1 Removable Crumb Tray for better cleaning
- 1 Cooking Tray
- Grill Rack
- Handle to take out Cooking Tray
- Rotisserie Rod Set
- Rotisserie Handle
- Recipe book
- Instructions manual
My experience with Borosil Prima Oven
- Very easy to operate as it has four knobs for setting temperature, mode & heating rod and timer to adjust as per your recipe
- For easy assistance it comes with a guide book and recipe book with all details to understand your oven
- It’s quiet spacious to bake multiple items. I have baked around 25-30 medium size cookies in two trays, two cakes in one go, lasagna, breads, baked vegetables.
- One point to mention, baking time increases little more if you are baking more items in one go.
- Illuminated chamber is really helpful to keep a check on items baking. I would say it’s really important as I have worked with another oven without light bulb and it’s quiet tough to see the baked level without taking out tray.
- Big double glaze glass on front so it’s quite easy to keep an eye on every corner of the tray.
- Initially there was uneven heating issues so I was getting some dark and some light color cookies. In my case it was thermostat issue and got it fixed.
- But still to avoid that you can change the tray directions when you see it’s getting darker at one end.
- Oven overall weight is not heavy so you can shift on your own if required.
- Oven thermometer is must to know the exact temperature of oven as it’s always less or more then what you have set. You should get a good quality one else temperature issue will be there.
- Oven trays/wire rack quality is ok, but can’t keep heavy pans like Dutch oven or iron tawa on the wire rack which is required in sourdough baking.
- Overall a happy customer as I love baking in my oven and every oven behaves differently so you will get use to when you bake.
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