Baking Recommendations - Jenn-Air S100 Use And Care Manual

Baking
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. Casseroles can be started in a
cold oven. Preheating takes from 6 to 8 minutes; place food in oven after
OVEN INDICATOR LIGHT cycles off.
• Arrange oven racks before turning on oven. Follow suggested rack posi-
tions on pages 25 and 27.
• Allow about 1 to 11/2inches of space between the oven side walls and
utensils to allow proper air circulation.
• When baking foods in more than one utensil, place them on opposite
corners of the rack. Stagger utensils when baking on two racks so that one
utensil 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 utensils and the size recommended in the recipe.
• Dull, dark, enameled or glass utensils will generally produce a brown, crisp
crust. Shiny metal utensils produce a light, golden crust.
• Frozen pies in shiny aluminum pans should be baked on a cookie sheet on
rack 1 or be removed to a dull or glass pan.
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