Isn’t this what an air fryer does? I love my air fryer, by the way…
Yes, an air fryer is a very small convection oven. We had ours installed way before anyone had heard of an air fryer though. It is also hard to fit a 15lb turkey in an air fryer.
My mother’s is Miele, and all it does is annoy us as we try to figure out exactly how to adapt recipes to use it. It’s a waste of time and money unless you’re going to cook the same thing over and over and over until you figure out the best way to do that one particular dish in your one particular over, because all the “Lower heat by 25 degrees” nonsense is just someone’s best guess averaged over a lot of food.
Do not recommend.
We have a double wall oven; the top is convection. Mostly we don’t bother - but if you’ve got multiple items in it (e.g. several cookie sheets) it can cook them more evenly.
Back in 2010, we were in Nevada and Utah for a couple weeks - in July. At one point we stopped to see some rock formations, when it was 115+ degrees out.
A breeze cropped up.
Instead of cooling us, though, I learned what it feels like to be in a convection oven; we just cooked that much faster :D.
I have one; this is my 2nd. I definitely prefer them over non-convection ovens: no real noticeable “hot spots” in my convection ovens. My current one is noisier than the previous, tho, and will definitely be a shopping point when this one needs replacing.