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 and Solutions Chart
BakingCauses
Problems
Cookies and biscuits @ Cookies and biscuits put into the
burn on the bottom. oven before the preheating time
is completed.
Oven rack overcrowded.
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Cakes | too dark on | * | Cakes | put | into | the | oven | before |
fop or | boffom. |
| preheating | time is completed. | ||||
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| * | Rack | position | too | high | or low. | |
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| Oven | too | hot. |
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Corrections
*Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature before placing food in oven.
*Choose pan sizes that will permit 5.1cm to 10.2cm (2" to 4") of air space on all sides when placed in the oven.
*Use a
*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 recommended.
Cakes not done in
the center.
Cakes not level.
Oven too hot.
•Incorrect pan size.
•Pan not centered in oven.
Range not level.
•Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C lower than recommended.
•Use pan size suggested in recipe.
•Use proper rack position and place pan so there is 5.1cm to 10.2cm (2" to 4") of space on all sides of pan.
* Place a | marked | glass measuring | cup | filled | with | water | ||
on the center | of | the | oven rack. | If the | water | level is | ||
uneven, | refer | to | the | installation | instructions | for | leveling | |
the range. |
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•Pan too close to oven wall or rack overcrowded.
•Pan warped.
Foods not done | when | • Oven | too | cool. | ||
cooking | time | is up. |
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| Oven | overcrowded. | |
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* Be sure to allow 5.1cm to 10.2cm (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 suggested 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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