BEFORE YOU CALL
Solutions to Common Baking Problems
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 appli- ance.
| Baking Problems and Solutions Chart | |
Baking Problems | Causes | Corrections |
Cookies and biscuits | • Cookies and biscuits put | • Allow oven to preheat to desired temperature |
burn on the bottom. | into oven before the | before placing food in oven. |
| preheating time is | • Choose pan sizes that will permit 2” to 4” of air |
| completed. | |
| space (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) on all sides when | |
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| • Oven rack is overcrowded. | placed in the oven. |
| • Dark pans absorbs heat too | • Use a medium weight baking sheet. |
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Cakes too dark on top | • Cakes put in oven before | • Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature |
or bottom. | preheating time is | before placing food in the oven. |
| completed. | • Use proper rack position for baking needs. |
| • Rack position too high or too | |
| • Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C lower than | |
| low. | recommended. |
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•Oven too hot.
Cakes not done in | • | Oven too hot. | • Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C lower than |
center. | • | Incorrect pan size. | recommended. |
| • Use pan size suggested in recipe. | ||
| • Pan not centered in oven. | ||
| • Use proper rack position and place pan to allow | ||
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| for 5.1 cm to 10.2 cm (2” to 4”) of space on all |
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Cakes not level. | • | Range not level. | • Place a marked glass measuring cup filled with |
| • Pan too close to oven wall | water on the center of the oven rack. If the water | |
| level is uneven, refer to the installation instruc- | ||
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| or rack overcrowded. | |
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| tions for leveling the range. | |
| • | Pan warped. | |
| • Be sure to allow 5.1 cm to 10.2 cm (2” to 4”) of | ||
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| clearance on all sides of each pan in the oven. |
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| • Do not use pans that are dented or warped. |
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Foods not done when | • | Oven too cool. | • Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C higher than |
cooking time is over. | • | Oven overcrowded. | suggested and bake for the recommended time. |
| • Be sure to remove all pans from the oven except | ||
| • Oven door opened too | ||
| the ones to be used for baking. | ||
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| frequently. | |
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| • Open oven door only after shortest recommended | |
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