Setting Oven Controls
Oven Baking
For best cooking results, heat the oven before baking cookies, breads, cakes, pies or pastries, etc... There is no need to preheat the oven for roasting meat or baking casseroles.
The cooking times and temperatures needed to bake a product may vary slightly from your previously owned appliance.
Baking
Problems
Cookies and bis- cuits burn on the bottom.
Baking Problems and Solutions Chart
CausesCorrections
• | Cookies and biscuits put into | • | Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature be- | |
| the oven before the preheating |
| fore placing food in oven. | |
| time | is completed. |
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| Oven | rack overcrowded. | • Choose pan sizes that will permit 2" to 4" (5.1 cm to | |
10.2 cm) of air space on all sides when placed in the oven.
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| Dark pan absorbs heat too |
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| fast. |
Cakes | too dark on | " | Cakes put into the oven before |
top or | bottom. |
| preheating time is completed. |
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| o | Rack position too high or low. |
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| o | Oven too hot. |
Cakes not done in , Oven too hot. the center.
oIncorrect pan size.
oPan not centered in oven.
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•Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature be- fore placing food in the oven.
•Use proper rack position for baking needs.
Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C lower than recom- mended.
Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C lower than recom- mended.
Use pan size suggested in recipe.
Use proper rack position and place pan so there is 2" to 4" (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) of space on all sides of pan.
Cakes not level.
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Foods not done when cooking time is up.
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Range not level.
Pan too close to oven wall or rack overcrowded.
Pan warped.
Oven too cool.
Oven overcrowded.
Oven door opened too fre- quently.
•Place a marked glass measuring cup filled with water on the center of the oven rack. If the water level is uneven, refer to the installation instructions for leveling the range.
Be sure to allow 2" to 4" (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) of clear- ance on all sides of each pan in the oven.
Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
•Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C higher than sug- gested and bake for the recommended time.
Be sure to remove all pans from the oven except the ones to be used for baking.
Open oven door only after shortest recommended baking time.
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