Using the Ovens
Cooking frozen & chilled foods
■Preheat the oven.
■Whencooking frozenor chiled foods, please follow the manufacturer’s instructions. If cooking more than one tray or item, cooking times may need to be increased.
■Please ensure that foods are piping hot before consumption.
■Always use the temperature setting stated on food packaging when cooking convenience food.
■Never overload the tray - eg; oven chips should be placed onto the baking tray in one even layer for satisfactory cooking.
■Follow the cooking times given on packaging but remember they are only intended as a guide and do not take individual preferences into account.
■Always cook frozen convenience foods straight from the freezer unless packaging advises otherwise.
Slow cooking
■Make sure that frozen foods are thoroughly thawed before cooking.
■Do not slow cook joints of meat or poultry weighing more than 21⁄4 kg/41⁄2lb.
■For roasting joints of meat or poultry and for pot roasts preheat the oven to gas mark 6 and cook for 30 minutes, then adjust the oven control to ‘S’ slow set for the remainder of the cooking time.
■Always use the top half of the oven when slow cooking.
■Slow cooking times will be about 3 times as long as conventional cooking times.
■Do not open the oven door unnecessarily during slow cooking, as this will result in heat
■loss at low temperatures.
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