Jenn-Air WG206 Use And Care Manual page 9

General Baking Recommendations
• When cooking foods for the first time in your new oven, use recipe cooking
times and temperatures as a guide.
• Use tested recipes from reliable sources.
• Preheat the oven only when necessary. For baked foods that rise and for
richer browning, a preheated oven is better. Preheat oven for 10 minutes.
Casseroles can be started in a cold oven.
• Arrange oven racks before turning on oven. Follow suggested rack posi-
tions on page 9.
• Allow about 1 to 11/2inches of space between the oven side walls and
pans to allow proper air circulation. Crowding of pans may cause uneven
browning or uneven rising of leavened foods.
• When baking foods in more than one pan, place them on opposite corners
of the rack. Stagger pans when baking on two racks so that one pan does
not shield another unless shielding is intended. (See above photo.)
• To conserve energy, avoid frequent or prolonged door openings. At the
end of cooking, turn oven off before removing food.
• Always test for doneness (fingertip, toothpick, sides pulling away from
pan). Do not rely on time or brownness as only indicators.
• Use good quality baking pans and the size recommended in the recipe.
• Dull, dark, enameled or glass pans will generally produce a brown, crisp
crust. Shiny metal pans produce a light, golden crust.
• Frozen pies in shiny aluminum pans should be baked on a cookie sheet on
rack 2 or be removed to a dull or glass pan.
• The use of aluminum foil in the oven is not recommended as it can affect
oven performance.
NOTE: When the BROIL setting is used, the oven cannot be used at the
same time.
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