A convection oven is like a conventional electric oven with a fan that circulates air and supposedly makes cooking faster. (It does seem to make the oven heat more evenly.) You can cook meat, poultry and fish in convection mode.
I still read the instruction cheat sheet every time I want to bake in it, but it will bake brownies or even boy scouts (brownies with nuts
) nicely unlike a microwave which has a tendency to turn a lot of batter based ingredients into hockey pucks.
Paula