Chelsea, there are discussions about recipe books in the Questions, Technical Issues etc section.  Is that what you were referring to?

Judy my oven is an Omega and it has a fan on all the time and then when you want fan forced it boosts up the speed of the fan. It blows  air out of the top of the oven. I queried it and was told it was normal. It's 5 years old in July.

Thanks for that Cookie1, maybe it is normal then   The forum was quiet today so I got stuck into tidying up the pantry and other cupboards.  I found an oven temperature gadget so now I can check the temperature next time I am doing cookies or whatever.

Judy, why don't you post the make and model, if you have it? We can do a bit of research on the Net to see if anyone else has that problem...

All I know about it MrSpock is that it is a Chef Select underbench electric fan forced oven, no model number or anything like that.  It isn't a huge problem, I'll just put up with it until I replace it but next one will be purchased from a retail outlet and not a clearance centre. I use my weber a lot so it isn't used much anyway. Thanks anyway for your offer of help.

No, it is different because of the way the door opens and I got it from a clearance centre - maybe that was the problem!  I'll check out everyone's oven when I am at their place in future as most of them are fan forced these days.  Will make a phone call to Chef and see what they say next week.  Thanks for your suggestions.

OK, so whilst we are on the subject of ovens maybe someone can give me an answer to the following question.  If you have a fan forced oven do you get hot air blowing out the top of the door?  I do and this just doesn't seem right to me. I don't have a pull-down door, my door opens from left to right. It is only about 4 years old.

If you can't laugh at yourself Thermomixer, you may as well not be here - we have many instances of having good laughs at ourselves in this house. We are a couple of 'wallies' at times, in fact Wal is my nickname from DH.

Just made a batch of choc-chip cookies by mistake (was supposed to be making Anzac biscuits but don't ask me how that happened apart from the fact I had the recipe opened at the wrong page and was wondering when it was going to tell me to put the oats in!!).  I have just eaten 4 of them and could dip into the barrel again but I am using all my willpower not to   I think there might be something wrong with my oven, cakes, cookies etc seem to always take more time than is stated in the recipe. These took 15 minutes.  I can see myself getting hooked on these and that is definitely not a good thing for the waistline

Tenina said she was only halfway through it so you might be waiting a long time   You've probably got all the rest so maybe you will have to wait though.