Setting Oven Controls
Oven Baking
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 appliance.
Baking Problems Cookies and biscuits burn on the bottom.
Cakes too dark on top or bottom,
Baking Problems and Solutions Chart
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°Cookies and biscuits put into the ° Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature
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* Oven | rack | overcrowded. |
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e | Dark | pan | absorbs heat too | fast. | ° | Use a | aluminum | baking | sheet. | |
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eCakes put into the oven before ° Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature
preheating time is completed. | before | placing | food in the oven. |
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| ° | Rack | position | too | high | or | low. | ° | Use | proper | rack | position | for baking | needs. |
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Cakes | not done | in the | * | Oven |
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Cakes | not level. |
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| ° | Pan | too | close | to oven | wail | or | * | Be | sure | to | allow | 5.1 cm | to |
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Foods not done | when | ° | Oven |
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