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Why Convection Ovens Are Good For Cooking Pizza
How Long To Cook & What Temperature?
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How to make pizza in a convection oven ?
Homemade pizza in a convection oven
Ingredients
Instructions
And it's ready !!!!
What temp do you cook a pizza in a convection oven?
Can you bake pizza in a convection oven?
How do you cook pizza in convection mode?
Do convection ovens cook pizza faster?

If you don’t have a dedicated pizza oven, and honestly who does, then you might be wondering if you can cook a good pizza in a convection oven.

Yes, you can cook a pizza in a convection oven, and it’s not as hard as you might think.

Below I’ll give you some tips on how to make the best pizza at home using your convection oven.

You can even cook a frozen pizza in a convection oven!

Why Convection Ovens Are Good For Cooking Pizza

In case you don’t know, convection ovens differ from your standard kitchen oven due to how they work.

When you cook something in a convection oven, the hot air from the oven basically hits it from all directions.

This means that you get a very even cooking since the heat it coming at the pizza from all angles.

So, your crust gets crispy and brown while your cheese gets all melty and yummy – without you needing to use the broiler.

Basically, when you use a convection oven for a pizza, the result is a perfectly cooked pie.

How Long To Cook & What Temperature?

The most important thing to remember when using a convection oven for your pizza is that you have to adjust both the cook temperature and the amount of time for cooking.

As a general rule of thumb, you should reduce the cook temperature by 25 degrees and reduce the cook time by 25% to get a perfectly cooked pizza from the convection oven.

The team over at Our Bountiful Kitchen has put together this really helpful video on making a pizza from scratch and cooking it to perfection in a convection oven.

Convection Oven Pizza

Ingredients

1 Teaspoon Salt
DRIZZLE of EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
2 Tablespoons ACTIVE DRY YEAST
2 Cups Water
2 Teaspoons Sugar to activate the YEAST
3 1/2 to 4 Cups of UNBLEACHED Flour

Directions

Mix Water, Yeast and Sugar together. Allow to bubble up or foam to double it size. (about 10 mins)

Mix together all dry ingredients. Add yeast.

Mix in mixer or hand mix until dough is smooth.

In a greased bowl, place dough, cover with plastic let rise to double it’s size. (About 1 1/2 hour depending on temp and humidity)

Roll out dough, flatten and place on pizza pan, allowing for the size of the pan, pre-bake at 375 degrees for Convection/Microwave Oven (400 degrees for conventional oven).

Add your sauce and toppings, cheese…

Bake for 13-15 mins until the cheese is starting to bubble and brown in the Convection/Microwave.

Bake for 15-20 mins in conventional oven.

Final Word

As you can see, using a convection oven is a great way to cook a pizza at home, even a frozen pizza.

Just remember to adjust your time and temperature settings so that you don’t over cook it!

There is something about pizza made from scratch. From that delicious taste to the sense of accomplishment that your yeast has proofed perfectly, and you exactly know how many toppings you want.

In addition to that, pizza-making can be a fun activity with your family. You can make the dough for the base and potion it correctly, ready to use. Then you can make a station with all your toppings and pizza dough and ask everyone to make their pizza.

How to make pizza in a convection oven ?

Now let’s talk about baking your pizza in a convection oven. Firstly, you need to understand how a convection oven works. A convection oven is a combination of a microwave (something that is used for instant heating), a grill (something that is used to roast the food with dry heat), and an oven (something which is used for slow cooking and heats the food evenly from within). So basically, you can switch these modes and use this one compact device according to your convenience.

Now a traditional oven is something that uses heat from the bottom burner and the top burner and circulates the heat evenly.

When you bake your pizza in a convection oven, what happens is that the top rods heat up, and this cooks the pizza. But usually, when the temperature is too high (when you bake a pizza) the top of the pizza cooks quickly as compared to the center bottom, which leaves the pizza soggy and uncooked. Hence understanding your device is important!

In a convection oven, I prefer to lower the temperature by 10 – 15 %, which increases the cooking time but, your pizza cooks from within.

I lower my convection oven’s temperature down to 170℃ and cook my pizza for 20 minutes. And if I need additional browning, I crank the heat up and bake my pizza for additional 3-4 minutes.

Homemade pizza in a convection oven

Prep Time25 mins

Cook Time20 mins

Proofing Time1 hr

Total Time1 hr 45 mins

Author: Eram

Ingredients

To make the pizza base

¾ tsp Yeast
½ tsp Sugar
⅓ cup Water
1¼ cups Flour
Salt to taste
1 tsp Onion Powder (optional)
1 tsp Butter
Olive oil to grease

Topping

Green capsicum
Baby corn
Tomatoes
Onion
Carrots

Optional

Coriander and garlic butter to brush on the crust
Oregano

Instructions

To make the Pizza base

Heat the water for 15 to 20 seconds in the microwave or if you are using some other method to heat the water make sure the water is warm to touch and not extremely hot and if you have a food thermometer the water should be between 120F to 125F.
To feed the yeast add sugar and stir it.
Next, add they east and let it sit. We are using instant dry yeast hence we don’t need to stir the yeast granule as they easily dissolve in the warm water.
Now leave the yeast mixture for 10 minutes.
Once there is a foamy layer on the top of the water your yeast is activated.
Now add the foamy yeast mixture to the dry ingredients and knead the dough for 10 minutes.
Add the butter and knead for an additional 5 minutes. I know you need to work with the dough to get that perfect bread.
Grease the bowl with olive oil and cover the whole dough with olive oil too.
Let the dough rest for anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour. (Preferably keep the dough in the same place where the yeast was kept to proof)
To know that your dough is ready to need to check if it is doubled in size or else keep it in a warmer place for an additional 15 minutes.
Once your dough is proofed (doubled in size), your dough is ready. Now punch down the dough and form a circular base.
Now place the dough down in the pan of your choice. And with a knife or a fork puncher down the pizza base so that it doesn’t rise.

To top your Pizza

Add some sauce to the pizza base.
Next, add some mozzarella cheese and the toppings of your choice. I have added some processed cheese also because I like the saltiness of it.
Now brush some coriander garlic butter on the crust and add some oregano. I add some oregano before baking the pizza as I like the cheese and herbs to combine.
Now comes the part of convection baking. As in a convection oven, the heat comes directly from the top rods. So, I would recommend you to set the temperature to 170℃ and bake your pizza for 20 minutes as there is no direct heat from the bottom. Slow cooking the pizza would bake the pizza properly.
And if you are anything like me and you like bubbly brown cheese. Then keep the pizza for 2 to 3 additional minutes on 200℃. Keep an eye on it.

And it's ready !!!!

What temp do you cook a pizza in a convection oven?

Bake Temp: 425 Degrees. If you can dedicate one convection oven to pizza production, you may place a pizza stone at the bottom of your oven. This will speed up the heat transfer and shorten the bake time.

Can you bake pizza in a convection oven?

A convection oven is perfect for baking pizza. Because the hot air from it moves around, your pizza cooks more quickly than in a conventional oven. Because of this, your pizza will be crisper and have a more even surface than when you bake it in a traditional oven.

How do you cook pizza in convection mode?

Now comes the part of convection baking. As in a convection oven, the heat comes directly from the top rods. So, I would recommend you to set the temperature to 170℃ and bake your pizza for 20 minutes as there is no direct heat from the bottom. Slow cooking the pizza would bake the pizza properly.

Do convection ovens cook pizza faster?

If so, you know that they use a fan to assist in the cooking process, and because of that you can often cook faster or crisp things up better than in a regular oven. Things like pizza and fried foods or frozen foods are some of the best things to cook in a convection oven.