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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,
Causes
Corrections
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Cookies and BiSCUitSPut into
;
AllOW oven to preheat to the selected temperature
the oven before the preheating
time is completed.
Oven rack overcrowded.
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Dark pan absorbs heat too fast,
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Cakes put into the oven before
preheating time is completed.
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Rack position too high or low.
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Oven too hot.
before placing food in oven.
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Choose pan sizes that will permit 5.1cm to 10.2cm
(2" to 4'3 of air space on all sides when placed in
the oven.
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Use a medium-weight
aluminum baking sheet.
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Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature
before placing food in the oven.
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Use proper rack position for baking needs.
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Set oven temperature
25°F/12°C lower than
recommended.
Cakes not done in
"
Oven too hot.
;
set oven temperature
25°Fi12°C iowei than
the center,
recommended.
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Incorrect pan size.
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Use pan size suggested in recipe.
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Pan not centered in oven.
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Use proper rack position and place pan so there is
5.[cm to 10.2cm (2" to 4'3 of space on all sides of
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pan.
Cakes not LeveL.
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Range not level.
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Place a marked glass measuring cup filled with water
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on the center of the oven rack. If the water level
is uneven, refer to the installation instructions for
leveling the range.
Pan too close to oven wall or
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Be sure to allow 5.1cm to 10.2cm (2" to 4") of
rack overcrowded,
clearance on all sides of each pan in the oven.
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Pan warped.
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Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
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Oven too cool.
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Set oven temperature
25°F/12°C higher than
Foods not done
when cooking time
; is up.
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Oven overcrowded.
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Oven door opened too
frequently.
suggested and bake for the recommended time.
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Be sure to remove all pans from the oven except the
ones to be used for baking.
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Open oven door only after shortest recommended
baking time.
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