Oven Cooking Methods
Oven Cooking Methods
Bake
Bake (lower) and broil (upper)elements operate during bake.
Bake element is not visible onthe oven bottom, but housed
underneaththe oven bottom. Broilelement may cycle on and off
duringbake and is only usedto heat oven quicklyand brown top
offood. Bake can be used to cookfoods which are normally
baked. Oven shouldbe preheated.
Broil
Upperelement operatesduring broil.Broil can be used to cook foods
whichare normally broiled.Preheating is not requiredwhen using broil.
Allfoods should be turned at least once except fish, whichdoes not need
to beturned.

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Neverleave oven unattended
whilebroiling.Overceoking may
resultin a fire.
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provided meat preparation, handling
safety and cooking suggestions in this
manual. These recommendations are
furnished by the USDA as well as
several meat producer associations. See
the individual sections for the
information.

Broiling Hints

Remove excess fat from meat before broiling. Cut edges of meat to
preventcoding.
Place food on a cold ungraased broilingpan. If pan is hot, foodsticks.
Allfood except fish should beturned at leastone time. Begin broiling
withskin side down.
Season meat after it has browned.
Broilingdoesnot require preheating.
Begincooking usingsuggested rack levels in Broilingsection totest
broilerresults. If food is not brown enough, cook on a higher rack
position.Iffood is too brown, cook on a lower rack position.
Oven door must be fully closed.