My first post - Baking Steel in convection oven

[jvasilou]

Here is my latest pie cooked on the new Baking Steel product. I am getting great results with it. I use a recipe technique based on Jeff Verasano with a starter. My GE Profile oven lets me adjust the thermostat up to 35 degrees so I add 35 which lets me bake around 585 when set to 550. Based on other posts I tried convection last night, which lowers the temp by 25 (wish I could turn that off) but even with that I was still above 550. Convection reduced my baking time from 6 and a half minutes to 5. I use a 50/50 mix of Caputo 00 and KA Bread flour. One of my best results.

[Jdcigar]

What baking steel do you have?  How do you raise the temp the extra amount?  We have a GE profile as well.

[widespreadpizza]

JD,  it all goes back to RTFM...  -marc

[jvasilou]

I got the steel from bakingsteel.com. The instructions on the oven adjustment are in the manual but all you do is hold the bake and broil buttons down at the same time until you see SF in the display. Then press bake, enter 35 and hit start. To set it back just enter 00 instead of 35. If you forget to do that and your wife can't understand why she burnt her blueberry pie the next day you're in trouble 

[Jdcigar]

Thanks!