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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.
Measure ingredients properly.
Use proper pan placement.
DPlace pans on the oven racks with 1" to I 112"of air space on all sides of each pan. Avoid overcrowding the oven.
Pans too close to each other, to oven walls or to the oven bottom, block the tree movement of air. Im- proper air movement causes uneven browning and cooking.
2 cake layers
4 cake layers
When baking several items stagger pans so that no pan is directly above another.
Let the oven preheat thoroughly before cooking baked products. Allow 10 minutes for preheating.
Opening the door too often to check food during baking will allow heat loss and may cause poor baking results.
Cakes, cookies, muffins, and quick breads should be baked In shiny pans
because they should have a brown, crisp crusL
Be sure the underside of the pan is shiny, too. Darkened undersides will absorb the heat and may cause over browning on the bottom of your food.
Oven temperatures should be reduced 25 degrees beiowrecommended temperatures if exterior of pan is predarkened, darkened by age or oven proof glass.
There may be some odor when the oven is first used. This is caused by the heating of new parts and
Insulation.
Do not cover an entire oven rack with foil. The foil can block normal heat flow and cause poor baking l:esults. Do not place any foil directly on the oven bottom. Foil used on the oven bottom may damage the oven surface; therefore, it should not be used°
Cookies should be baked on flat cookie sheets without sides to allow the air to circulate properly°
When recipes require preheating, have food nearby before you open the oven door. If the oven door is allowed to remain open for more than a brief time, the preheat temperature will be lost.
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