OVEN COOKING
When cooking a food for the first time In your new oven, use time given on recipes as a guide.
Your new oven has been set correctly at the factory and Is more apt to be accurate than the oven It replaced.
After you have USed your oven for awhile, If you feel your oven should be hotter or cooler, you can adjust
it yourself. See THERMOSTAT ADJUSTMENTS In this manual.
Always follow recipe carefully.
Cakes, cooklse, muffins, and quick breads should be baked In shiny pans
Be sure the underside of the pan Is shiny, too. Darkened undersides will absorb the heat and may cause
Measure Ingredients | properly. |
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Use proper pan placement. |
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Place pans on the oven racks with 1" to I 1/2" of air |
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space on all sides of each pan. Avoid overcrowding |
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the oven. |
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Pans too close to each other, to oven walls or to the |
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oven bottom block the free movement of air. Im- |
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proper air movement causes uneven browning and |
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cooking. |
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| Oven temperatures should be reduced 25 degrees | ||
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| below recommended temperatures If exterior of pan | ||
2 cake | layers | Is predarkened, darkened by age or oven proof | ||
glass. |
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| There may be some odorwhen the oven Is first used. | ||
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| This Is caused by the heating of new parts and | ||
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| Do not cover an entire oven rack with foil. The foil | ||
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| can block normal heat flew and cause poor baking | ||
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| results. Do not place any foil directly abovethe bake | ||
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| element. Foil used on the oven bottom under the | ||
4 cake layers | element may damage the oven surface; therefore, It | |||
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| o | Cookies | should be baked on | flat cookie sheets |
When baking several Items stagger pans so that no | without sides to allow the air to circulate properly. | |||
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pan Is directly above | another. | When recipes require preheating, | have food nearby | |
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Let the oven preheat thoroughly before cooking
allowed to remain open for more than a brief time,
baked products. Listen for preheat notification tons
and put the food In the oven.
the preheat temperature will be lost.
Opening the door too often to check food during baking will allow heat loss and may cause poor baking results.
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