Breville setting for Frozen Foods:

[Darienne]

Unless I am mistaken, the manual for my new Breville Smart Oven Pro says nothing about how to use the "Frozen Foods" designation.  This category of heating is allowed only at 4 settings: toast, bagel, pizza and cookies.  And it says nothing about how to use it.  I searched under "frozen foods" in e Gullet and online and still couldn't find anything.  No doubt this is my mistake, but someone please help me and tell me what it's for and how to use it.  Thanks.  

[boilsover]

You are correct--the manual is opaque about this.

 

As far as I can tell, the little "Frozen" button merely extends the cooking time by an arbitrarily-set duration intended to cook frozen foods, where their thawed brethren would overcook.  In practice, this feature is as fraught and imprecise as the difference in setting "4 slices" vs. "6 slices" in Toast mode.

 

If you're willing to take the time, you can compare the regular duration with the "Frozen" duration (in all authorized modes), simply by starting a cycle in the cool oven with one setting and then the other.  I think I may have posted this boring information at a competing site...

 

 

[Anna N]

6 minutes ago, boilsover said:

You are correct--the manual is opaque about this.

It is indeed. Read most of the way through it with a little information about that frozen function. But I suspect that you are correct. My Breville has a frozen button, also.  Never found a reason to use it though. 

[boilsover]

Just now, Anna N said:

It is indeed. Read most of the way through it with a little information about that frozen function. But I suspect that you are correct. My Breville has a frozen button, also.  Never found a reason to use it though. 

 

I've tried it with frozen crappo supermarket pizza.  It works about as well as pizza in general--not very well.

[ElsieD]

I never use the presets.