Do you love to bake, but dont have the time to do it yourself, cant be bothered, too stressful or maybe you just don’t even know how to operate the oven section of your 4-burner cooker?

Fear of not knowing how to use an oven or what to do has discouraged many moms from developing a baking culture at home. One of the great ways to improve your kitchen experience is to bake at home especially with your kids, spouse or neighbours. It’s a great bonding activity!

Whether they are still on holiday or planning on going back to school, let’s look at the typical 4-burner gas/electric cooker in an average Nigerian home.

Abroad, I’ve seem more inbuilt ovens to the kitchen wall than the ones attached to a 4-burner cooker, so lets safely say 4-burner cooker oven in an average Nigerian home. There are different types of ovens – convection ovens, steam ovens and fan ovens. However, for simplicity, we’ll start with the basic most popular one.

Facts About Your 4-Burner Cooker Oven:

1. The middle Knob is usually the knob controlling the oven section.
2. The oven is practically below the knobs (obviously! Lol)
3. The oven has 4 rungs counting from nearest to the heat source is 1,2,3 and 4. The 4th rung is closest to the grill heat source
4. The best rung to begin baking with is the 3rd one, because it is removed much further away from the bottom heat source.
5. You can pass a lighter through the large hole at the bottom.
6. The plate where the large hole is , can be removed to reveal the rectangular burner which actually lights us when you introduce fire from your lighter to it.
7. For a gas cooker, the picture below shows the rungs, large hole and the detachable plate below

I’ve done a quick video to explain further the best way to use your basic oven. Have you ever been intimated to use your oven? Do you know where to light up when you want to bake, drill or broil?

Watch this video and let me know how your next baking experience turns out:

You can try these quick and easy child friendly- recipe for your kids to take to school as snacks:

1. Flour 2 cups
2. Butter 1/2 cup
3. Grated Apple 1 cup (to sweeten your dough instead of white sugar. Use golden delicious Apple if you want the sweet variant or dates if you dont want to use apples, or pineapple juice. The goal is to use any sweet fruit to replace sugar)
4. cinnamon 1 tsp
5. Chocolate Chips (optional) 1/4 cup
6. Mix ingredients all at once and freeze till you are ready to bake.
7. When you are ready to bake, make small balls rolling them between your palms.
8. place on your light lightly greased trays and press with the palm of your hand to flattened them
9. Pop in your preheated oven for about 10 -15 mins
10. Your kids will hug you with great delight!

Try out our Chef Juls range of Box Mixes for easy to pull off baking adventure. You can tweak or recreate your own quick and easy recipes from these versatile boxmixes too! We have a wide range from chocolate, red velvet, vanilla, to breadmixes, millet-based mixes, gluten-free and sugar-free mixes.

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Deliciously yours,

Chef Juls