Cooking Tips
Food Placement
NOTE: The rack positions mentioned below are counting from the bottom up.
•For best results when baking on two racks, use rack positions #2 and #4 or #1 and #3 with the oven set to Pure Convection or convection bake mode. For best results when baking on three racks, use rack positions #1, #3 and #5 with the oven set to Pure Convection mode.
•Turn pans on the racks so that the long sides run left to right, as you face them.
•Your Dacor GliderRack oven racks are good for cook- ing heavy food items. You can pull them out further than standard racks, making it easier to check the food, stir or add ingredients.
•Heavier roasting pans and dishes will cook better on rack position #1.
•When using the optional Dacor baking stone, use rack position #1 for best results.
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Oven Rack Positions
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
•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 pack- age recommendations. When using glass bake ware, reduce the recipe temperature 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 particu- larly 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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