Baking Cakes, Pastry is too dry, Pastry has dropped

Cooking Advice

Baking Cakes

When baking cakes, always preheat the oven. Make sure you wait until the oven has preheated thoroughly (the red oven indicator light "E" will go out). Do not open the oven door during baking to prevent the cake from dropping. In general, if:

Pastry is too dry

Increase the temperature by 10°C and reduce the cooking time.

Pastry has dropped

Use less liquid or lower the temperature by 10°C.

Pastry is too dark on top

Place it on a lower shelf, lower the temperature and increase the cooking time.

It is cooked well on the inside but sticky on the outside Use less liquid, lower the temperature, and increase the cooking time.

The pastry sticks to the pan

Grease the pan well and sprinkle it with a dusting of flour or use greaseproof paper.

You used more than one shelf (in the fan assisted oven mode) and they are not all at the same cooking point.

Use a lower temperature setting. It is not necessary to remove the food from all the shelves at the same time.

Cooking Fish and Meat

When cooking white meat, fowl and fish, use temperature settings from 180 °C to 200 °C.

For red meat that should be well done on the outside while tender and juicy in the inside, it is a good idea to start with a high temperature setting (200°C-220°C) for a short time, then turn the oven down afterwards.

In general, the larger the roast, the lower the temperature setting. Place the meat on the centre of the shelf and place the grill pan/baking tray beneath it to catch the fat.

Make sure that the shelf is inserted so that it is in the centre of the oven. If you would like to increase the amount of heat from below, use the low shelf positions.

Cooking Pizza

For best results when cooking pizza, use setting for

“Pizza Mode”:

•Preheat the oven for at least 10 minutes

•Use a light aluminium pizza pan, placing it on the shelf supplied with the oven. If the baking tray is used, this will extend the cooking time, making it difficult to get a crispy crust;

•Do not open the oven door frequently while the pizza is cooking;

•If the pizza has a lot of toppings (three or four), we recommend you add the mozzarella cheese on top halfway through the cooking process.

•If cooking on more than one shelf (up to 2), we advise

you to use the Multi-cooking Mode as the Pizza

Mode would heat the bottom shelf more than the others.

SD98, SC98, ST98 specifications

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Hotpoint ST98 Baking Cakes, Pastry is too dry, Pastry has dropped, Pastry is too dark on top

Models: SD98 SC98 ST98