Infrared ovens are a convenient, money saving, way to prepare all kinds of dishes. Not only that that, your food will be done much faster than if you had used a traditional oven. Here are just a few tips to help you get the most out of your Nuwave or similar infrared oven.

Depending on the recipe, you can cook your food right on the liner pan or rack. You can also use any cooking vessel you use in your regular oven. If you are baking cookies or rolls, it’s best to use a dark metal pan.

When cooking meat, anything greater than one inch thick should be turned halfway through its baking time to ensure the most even browning. All meat, poultry and seafood can go right from the freezer, into the oven.

Since most infrared ovens come with a one inch high and four inch high rack, you can ‘stack’ foods to make a complete meal, in one cooking session. As a basic rule, it is best to choose recipes that cook in the same amount of time. This will avoid over or under baking.

Convenience foods should be cooked on HI and typically take 25% less time to cook than baking instructions indicate.

I hope you take a minute to read my original post on infrared ovens. You’ll wonder how you ever survived without one!