Ovens

The Smart Oven range is a countertop oven: a tray or a pizza stone, elements above and below, and on later models a fan you can run hard enough to air fry.

A recipe written for a built-in oven almost always runs hot in one of these, because the food sits closer to the element. Use a lower shelf, or take the tray out earlier than the recipe says, the first time you cook that dish. The fan browns the surface faster than a static element. It also dries a thin fillet if you leave it for the full static time.

Air fry on these ovens is the fan plus a basket, not a different kind of heat. The basket needs a single layer. Stacked chips steam. Shake them once, the same way you would in a separate air fryer.

Leave a gap behind the oven so the vent can breathe, and do not push it under a cabinet that the door will hit. A crumb tray slides out. If it is missing, crumbs sit on the element and smoke.

Frozen pizza goes on the rack the manual names, not on the floor of the cavity. Parchment paper must be weighted by food or it lifts into the top element.

A one-pot braise belongs with cookers. Reheating a plate is usually a microwave job.