Cooking Tips
The Best Use of Bake Ware
•You should bake cakes, quick breads, muffins, and cookies in shiny, reflective pans for light, golden crusts. Avoid old, darkened, warped, dented, stainless steel and
•They heat unevenly and will not give good baking results. Use medium gauge aluminum sheets with low sides when preparing cookies, biscuits and cream puffs. Dacor cookie sheets, with their low profiles, will give you the best results.
•Bake most frozen foods in their original foil contain- ers, placed flat on a cookie sheet. Follow the package recommendations.
•When using glass bake ware, reduce the recipe tem- perature by 25°F, except when baking pies or yeast breads. Follow the standard recipe baking time for pies and yeast breads.
•Use the pan size and type recommended by the recipe for best results.
•For roasting, Dacor’s optional “V” shaped rack and broil/roast pan works best to allow air circulation around the food.
•Dacor’s roasting pan works particularly well and two of them will fit side by side in a
High Altitude Cooking
Due to the lower atmospheric pressure at higher alti- tudes, foods tend to take longer to cook. Therefore, recipe adjustments should be made in some cases. In general, no recipe adjustment is necessary for
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7000 | 25% | 20% | 20 - 25% | |
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“V” Shaped Rack
Grill
Deep Dish
(One per kit)
Optional Broil and Roast
Pan Kit (AORPVR)
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