How do you cook in an oven?

[Hover Fly]

Just a thought from the Turkey for 12 thread:
If you roast a bird or piece of meat in an oven, how come, if you cook a pie or cake in the same oven, it's called baking? surely roasting should be when you hold a piece of meat in front of an open fire or red-hot electric heater?

 

[RedRider]

Just a thought from the Turkey for 12 thread:
If you roast a bird or piece of meat in an oven, how come, if you cook a pie or cake in the same oven, it's called baking? surely roasting should be when you hold a piece of meat in front of an open fire or red-hot electric heater?

Yeah, but will it cook in four hours without killing everyone?

 

[02GF74]

everything I cook in the oven is done at 200 C.

 

[vernon]

Some possible answers are found here

 

[vernon]

surely roasting should be when you hold a piece of meat in front of an open fire or red-hot electric heater?

Isn't holding something in front of a red hot electric heater grilling?

 

[slowmotion]

[geek mode on]
I think that grilling involves radiation, while baking involves convection.
[geek mode off]

 

[vernon]

[geek mode on]
I think that grilling involves radiation, while baking involves convection.
[geek mode off]

So where does roasting fit in?

 

[slowmotion]

So where does roasting fit in?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm? { Scratches head}.
My best guess is that roasting is just grilling but with the added application of fat, juices, and general stuff. Also, that roasting has become alarmingly "static" with the development of the oven rather than the spit.
I'm making this up as I go along, and I do apologise. Any chefs hereabouts?

 

[subaqua]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm? { Scratches head}.
My best guess is that roasting is just grilling but with the added application of fat, juices, and general stuff. Also, that roasting has become alarmingly "static" with the development of the oven rather than the spit.
I'm making this up as I go along, and I do apologise. Any chefs hereabouts?

mention spitroasting and Fnaaar will pop up