Baking in OTG

If you are looking for OTG Baking Recipe's, scroll down.Some Basic Questions i usually get from my reader's are shared here to make it usefull to all.

What is OTG?

The abbreviation for OTG is Oven Toaster Griller. In layman's point of view, You can bake a cake, toast a bread and also grill a paneer, etc.

What is the difference between Microwave Oven and OTG?

In Microwave Oven, cooking is done through heat waves. Its more similar to our Pressure Cooker. There are Microwave Oven's with Convection and Grill mode, in which you can bake and grill.

In OTG, Baking is done with the heat of rods. its more like a traditional Oven.

What to Buy Microwave oven or OTG?

It depends on your needs. If you are Intrested only in Baking Cakes, or making some Grilled Non-veg dish, you can blindly go for OTG's.

But you cant use the OTG for Cooking or re-heating Purposes.

What I do with my Microwave is?

I boil Milk, Re-heat a sambhar or curry. Cook Vegetables. My cooking gets over fast, with the use of microwave oven. You can also Cook Rice in it.

So, see for what purpose you are going to buy and decide accordingly.

 How to Use OTG?

First Refer the Manual and wait for the demo person to give you the demo.

How to Pre-heat the oven?

Pre-Heating the oven is must, before you start to put some stuff into the oven. Heating up both the top and bottom rods at certain temperature mentioned in the recipe for about 10 minutes is Pre-heating the oven.

You could use this toast mode(both top and bottom rods heated) for pre-heating the oven and if you have to toast the bread's.

If the bottom rods alone heats up, then its the bake mode. cake has to be baked only in this mode!

Be it cakes, bread, pizza's, anything which calls for baking should be done only in this bake mode.

What i do with Grill mode is, After baking cakes, pizza's,bread, cookies anything, i grill them for 2 to 3 mins, to get the crispier/browning effect on the top of cakes.etc.

You can also grill Paneer and some non-veg stuffs with the rod, that you would have got.

*Cake has to be baked for atleast 30-40 mins. cupcakes takes 12-15 mins. so wait for enough time to get it raised and baked.

* If you have used eggs, baking powder, baking soda properly, the cake would definetle rise.

Hope i clarified you as much as i can. if you have furthur doubts, feel free to mail me at

Happy Baking!!

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OTG Recipe's:

I bought my OTG , in the mid of last year. But i kept it unused for 4 months. I went thru lots of blogs, sites and book's, learned few techniques of baking. I asked my blogger friends, so many doubts, they were kind enough to clarify me in instant. with all the theory learned, i started to step on to Practical with my OTG som 1year back. Here are my few experiments.

Basic Chocolate Cake:

Pumpkin Pie:

Tomato Pizza: with home made pizza base.

I just loved working on the pizza dough. It was a Great pizza experiment day!

Ladenia / Olive Oil Bread: from Rachel's blog.

After tasting these Bread at our last blogger meet, i instantly fell in love with this bread. Thank You Rachel for the Great Treat!

Focaccia:

 I should say, this was super hit at my home.

Few more coming up:

we enjoyed all the three cookies.

I thought i lost all the above pics as the system went thru  format recently. but luckily found out at Picasa. I dont want to loose again..thus its here today for your eyes.