Setting Oven Controls

Oven Baking

For best cooking results, heat the oven before baking cookies, breads, cakes, pies or pastries, etc. There Js 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 and Solutions Chart

Baking

Problems

Cookies and his= cuits burn on the bottom.

Cakes too dark on top or bottom.

Causes

Cookies and biscuits put into the oven before the preheat- ing time is completed.

Oven rack overcrowded.

Dark pan absorbs heat too fast.

Cakes put into the oven be- fore preheating time is com- pleted.

Rack position too high or low.

Oven too hot.

Corrections

Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature

 

 

before

placing food

in oven.

Choose

pan sizes that

will permit 5.1 cm to 10.2 cm

 

(2" to 4") of air space on all sides when placed in

 

the oven.

 

Use a medium-weight

aluminum baking sheet.

Allow oven to preheat

to the selected temperature

 

before placing food in the oven.

Use proper rack position for baking needs.

Set oven temperature

25°F/12°C lower than recom-

 

mended.

 

 

Cakes

not

done

in

Oven too

hot.

the center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Incorrect

pan size.

 

 

 

Pan not centered in oven.

Cakes

not

level.

Range not level.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pan too close to oven wall or

 

 

 

 

rack overcrowded.

 

 

 

Pan warped.

Foods

not

done

Oven too

cool.

when

cooking

 

 

 

time is up.

 

Oven overcrowded.

 

 

 

Oven door opened too fre-

 

 

 

 

quently.

 

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

 

5.1 cm to 10.2 cm (2" to 4") of space on all sides of

 

pan.

 

 

 

 

Place a marked glass measuring

cup filled with wa-

 

ter 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 5.1 cm to l0.2 cm (2" to 4") of

 

clearance 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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