Hi Lynn, I'm sure you will love it. I don't use my wall oven anymore. Check out my Mashed Potato method video too, its a real winner & huge time saver. Cheers from Sydney Australia....Steve.

Thanks for your comment & so glad that you enjoyed my video & you will certainly enjoy the lamb shanks. This same Aldi Convection Oven is still going strong today,. The most recent video on my channel shows it perfectly cooking a turkey. Be sure to have a look at the other clips on my channel as well. I recommend taking a look at my Mashed Potato method which is a great time saver & perfect to go with the lamb shanks. All the best, Steve.

@@Ozbullwinkle Did you get your convection oven online?

Hi Maryanne, thank you for your comment & I am glad that you enjoyed the video. I made a mistake saying my countertops were marble, what I meant to say was that they were solid polished granite.

You are welcome and I surely did enjoy the video! I have always mixed the names marble and granite, so you are definitely not alone :)

Thanks for this. It really did help!

I totally agree with you. Thank you for your comment.

Winksartist T Hi & thanks for you comment. I love my oven too & have been using it very regularly for years & its performance has been faultless. Mine is not halogen, no light bulbs, but has an electric element with fan forced convection. I hope you enjoy my other videos on my channel. May I suggest you take a look at my Mashed Potato method which is a great time saver. Merry Christmas!

I just brought a halogen oven and like it very much. Just one thing I've notice that the outlet I plug the oven in, the wall area gets really warm as the oven is cooking. Is this normal for the wall area to become very warm?.

Pam, my benchtop is solid marble so it is not a problem. If a benchtop material was heat sensitive then of course it would be best to put the lid onto something like a kitchen cutting board.

My kmart one came with a specialised metal stand to lean the lid/heater against safely, so off the benchtop whilst attending to the oven contents.

Just making a correction to my earlier reply Pam. My countertops are solid polished granite & not marble, my mistake, don't know what i was thinking at the time.

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I totally agree don't get suckered into one of the expensive brands.

The ALDI convection oven is top quality and I could not be happier with mine.

My same Aldi Convection Oven is still going strong today & I would have used it for hundreds of hours by now.

I used my oven 4 the first time n I cooked 6 drum stickes n I'm telling u this oven cooked so wonderful 2 many ppl that doesn't no how 2 use it should. Learn more about like look more in you tube read more about it it's not that hard if a tool n ur kitchen I love it👍❤

Aluminium is not eco friendly. Better for the 🌎 to clean the bowl

@@lilg9359 You would still need to use paper towels to clean up the excess oil.

Potatoes take around 30 minutes or so depending on your temp. I put mine on the top rack as I don't want all the fat from the meat dripping all over them. If you microwave the potatoes first it cuts down the cooking time as by doing this they are already cooked any you o9nly need to make them golden brown in the convection oven.

Hope your chicken and potatoes were a success. Timing is a visual thing and using a kitchen fork to test things. You can speed up the cooking time for the potatoes though by microwaving them first.

Yes your method sounds good too but I prefer not having the fat from meat or chicken dripping on my potatoes. Just a personal preference. Regarding the lid explosion risk I have been using this same Convection Oven instead of my wall oven for almost 10 years now with no issues. I think the stainless still ring on the outside of the lid overcomes this risk. Thanks for watching. I recommend taking a look at my Mashed Potato method video, it's a real winner & time saver.

Thanks for your comment, I will do this in future & it should also make the wash up after cooking even easier.

yes it will

I agree that larger thick cuts of meat take much longer in these types of ovens compared to a conventional oven. I don't do thick cuts in mine for the reason that you state above. I find that for a chicken it cooks fine whole as it is hollow but I prefer to butterfly them like the one shown in my Tandoori Chicken clip.

I never go by hard and fast rules like times to cook meat. Every piece of meat is different, some take longer than others. A simple method is to use a kitchen fork and check the colour of the juices that come out of the meat. Also if the fork goes in with little resistance you know that the meat is doe and is tender. You could also use a meat thermometer as well.

So if you don't open the lid during cooking how are you supposed to add ingredients which take less time to cook like vegetables or check on cooking progress through the use of as kitchen fork? No different to a normal household oven. Also my benchtop is solid granite which is totally unaffected by heat no matter how hot the item is.

Sue Wright Hi Sue & thanks for your comment. Placing the lid on the benchtop when it is hot is no problem as my benchtop is solid marble. I can also take a hot pan straight off my hotplate & put it on the benchtop as well. For those viewers who do not have heatproof benchtops then of course they would need to be careful & I would suggest putting the lid on a heatproof cutting board or suchlike. I hope you otherwise enjoyed the video.

Mine didn't come with any instructions or recipes either. There is nothing mysterious about a convection oven. Just use it like you would use a normal oven or following w my videos for some hints. Enjoy.

Hi Diane, my one is not Halogen, it is just fan forced Convection.

My one isn't halogen.

Mine is fan forced with an electric element & not halogen.

That's right NO Halogen bulbs, mine has a full electric element. I address this query in some of my other clips & show the element clearly. Thanks for viewing, check out my Mashed Potato clip too, it's a huge time saver & so easy.

If you mean does the glass bowl get hot when cooking, yes it does as it is an oven. Thanks for watching my video.

Step 1 defrost it. Then use your normal wall oven as a whole ham would not fit in this convection oven.

I have the extension onv mine so the whole ham did fit in it

I can't help you much as I am not familiar with the Sunbeam brand. But , what I would suggest you do is set your desired temperature & put an Oven thermometer inside your bowl to see if it comes up to your selected temperature. Maybe you have a heating element or thermostat problem. I hope you enjoy the other videos on my channel & thanks for watching.

I can't comment about the brand that you have. But I didn't get a manual with mine either. My oven has an electric element that is fan forced so it is not rocket science I use it exactly like a normal wall oven. A frozen solid ham?..would you normally put this in your wall oven?

I got to work thank you and it came out pretty good I get a turkey for Thanksgiving now I know how to use it

I cooked a turkey in mine recently and it came out great. Hope yours does as well.

Hi Paul, Thanks for your comment. I prefer the more healthy option as I intentionally do not want the fat dripping all over my potatoes. Also if they were under the meat I suspect that they would take longer to brown. It just comes down to personal preference and I want to increase the mileage I get out of my coronary arteries :-)

Yes, you could put the fat from the meat onto the roast potatoes if you want. It just comes down to personal preference. I personally don't want to eat this fat so I like my potatoes without the fat on them.

Annabel, maybe you should get one like mine which does not have the halogen bulb. I have cooked lots of things and it is going strong. You can see my electric element if you look at my new clip for Honey Soy & Ginger chicken legs.

Good stuff, I really love mine & have never got into the current air fryer fad. This little Convection oven does it all. Try cooking a turkey like in one of my other videos in a little air fryer.

Sorry to hear that you did not get a good result Lynette. Can't understand why your lamb shanks were "awful". I season mine before cooking and also put some herbs on them like rosemary and they turn out great as shown in my video. You just need to cook them to your liking so there is no hard and fast cooking time as everyone has different preferences but I certainly like mine well cooked. Potatoes take longer than 20 minutes though, have a look at my earlier reply about them to Anne Marie Hammond which you will find below. Once again cook them to your liking and their golden colour really sums them up. Don't know what you mean about the light going on & off though. My oven does not have a light in the bowl as it us not convection. The only "light" that goes on and off on mine is the one on the top of the lid at the dial for the temperature which is normal and us just the thermostat turning the heating element on & off to maintain the oven temperature.

Just an edit to my lengthy reply where I am talking about the light. I should have said that mine does not gave a light in the bowl as it is not HALOGEN whereas I said Convection by mistake.

Ozbullwinkle I think it had a bit to do with the light turning on and off the whole time. However, 20 mins. to cook a potato under halogen is expensive. it takes 5 in microwave.

Lynette, as my oven is not halogen I cannot comment on your issue. But I do not know how you could cook a baked potato in a microwave in only 5 minutes, cook a potato in its jacket in 5 minutes yes but not a browned baked potato.

Say you dial in 170 degrees, when the oven gets to that temp the light goes OFF.. When the temp drops it goes back ON to show it's heating up to 170 again. Takes longer than 20 minutes to do lamb. Read the user manual. E.g 2kg chicken takes about 70 minutes at 200 degrees with a few veggies around the sides. Cooking just one potato alone is a waste of time and energy.

Sanja Vuković there is no recipe when baking lamb shanks, it is very simple. You just put them in the oven totally raw & as I said in the video I cooked them for 1.5 hours as I like the meat to fall off the bone. The temperature was 180 degrees Celsius which is a standard roasting temperature. The potatoes take only about 30 minutes.

Thank you! I appologize

vinny lee Did you buy yours at Aldi as well?

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I didn't get a recipe book with mine and frankly I don't think that you need any as you can use recipes from any recipe book and even though the cooking times may vary having the glass bowl makes it easy to keep an eye on what you are cooking. If cooking meat of any type just use a kitchen fork to test how it is progressing.

It's a fan forced Oven with an electric element. I don't have an air fryer so don't know how the two appliances differ.

No it is very tender.

Yes, check out my Banana Bread Vudeo.

Yes, you could certainly cook sausages in this convection oven. There is nothing mysterious about this oven as it is just an electric element with a fan to distribute the heat. If you want to release some of the fat from the sausages just prick them with a fork during cooking.

You can cook anything that you like in the convection oven that I have. It has am electric element just like a normal wall oven with a fan to distribute the heat.

Definitely! You can cook anything that you can cook in a conventional oven. If I was cooking sausages I would put some water in the bottom of the bowl to catch the fat which makes cleanup so much easier. I would also prick the sausages with a fork to let the fat escape from them as well.

After all these years I've stumbled across your clip on the Lumina turbo. I noticed that you mentioned that yours doesn't have an internal light that lights up the bowl. Just to jog your memory, I bought mine from Aldi ($24.99) bout the same time as you did. You better have a look under the lid, cause mine definitely has a bright light that comes on whenever the oven is powering up to the selected temp and then goes off when the temp is reached, and then turns on again etc. etc.. It keeps doing this all the time the unit is in cooking mode, i.e. until the timer goes off. I was just thinking that maybe yours actually doesn't have a light, or possibly the globe has blown or not screwed in properly ? By the way, I don't use foil and baking paper in the bottom anymore, just the baking paper. I tear off a piece about 3" longer than the width of the bottom of the bowl, push it into the base and work in with finger nails to form the circle and excess up the sides a bit( I think you know what I mean). All the fat drips onto the b/paper and can't get away cause you've formed a little dish so to speak. Once the fat and other stuff has cooled, you just carefully lift the b/paper out, screw it up and chuck it. All I have to do occasionally is wipe the inside of the bowl with some paper towel dipped into your washing up water and squeezed out before wiping. Freaking easy man ! Forget the self cleaning gimmick, that's a load of bull. I've tried a thousand different ideas and recipes in the old turbo and 95% have been SUCCESS !!!

loutondacoast Thanks for your comment & I am glad that you have found my channel & enjoyed it. My little oven has an electric element only, it is definitely not halogen & has no bulb. I think that there were 2 different models, some were halogen & others were totally electric like mine. If you have a look at some of my other cooking videos, can't recall exactly which one it is, but I address this very issue & give a close up view of my electric element. Using the baking paper is a great method isn't it, I do this too & it makes cleanup a snack as you say. I love this little oven, never use my wall oven now & it has been going strong for over 7 years with very regular usage. Thanks again for watching. BTW be sure to check out my "Worlds Fastest Mashed Potato" clip as it's a real winner & so easy too.

@@Ozbullwinkle ....no I'm not saying mine has a halogen Globe, just a regular light globe, kinda like a microwave oven has, and only comes on when the thermo cuts in. I think they put it in there so you can see what's happening while you're cooking. Definitely not halogen ! ...and yes I have checked out your WFMP clip. I have been doing something similar, but whole potatoes simmered slowly in a saucepan, and then put through one of those Sumo Graters (James Sheeny), it leaves the skin behind, kinda the same thing, but not quite as fast. Simmering vegetables real slow in lightly salted water with a couple of dashes of brown vinegar, is much more healthy in my opinion. You should try it. Baked potatoes .. try lifting the lid slightly ajar at the last five, or ten minutes. Helps get some of the moisture out and definitely makes them a bit more crisp. Happy cooking Moose !!

Crusty fish & chicken? If you would not expect to get the result that you are looking for from a normal wall oven then a convection oven with an electric fan forced element like mine may not be for you.

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I have been using my original same Convection Oven for over 6 years on a regular basis & have not experienced this issue & I see no sign of degradation of my screws. Thanks for your comment though. As an aside please take a look at my video on my channel for making mashed potato which is an awesome method & you will never have to peel or boil potatoes ever again.

No, it is you that are WRONG when commenting about my convection oven. It has a circular electric element with a fan to evenly circulate the heat and does not have any bulb at all and is certainly not halogen! I am well aware that some other makes are halogen but my one is not.

Ozbullwinkle My apologies - but this is really weird - yours looks just like one I have - in fact it looks just like every other halogen cooker I've seen - and a search on the product even customers who have it seem confused about if it's supposed to have a bulb or not: www.productreview.com.au/p/lumina-aldi-convection-oven/2.html

It seems that there are 2 models - 1 has an Electric element like mine & the other one is Halogen. If you look at my new clip for Honey Soy & Ginger chicken legs you will see a close up of my electric element at the end of the clip.

Ozbullwinkle Ah, fair enough. They're neat little devices - love mine!

Yep, mine an element not a bulb. Absolutely love it.