Oven - Hints And Tips - Zanussi ZCG660GNC User Manual

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Oven - Hints and tips

WARNING!
Refer to Safety chapters.
The temperature and baking times in
the tables are guidelines only. They
depend on the recipes and the
quality and quantity of the
ingredients used.
Always preheat an empty oven at the
temperature required for the food for
20 minutes before you start cooking.
CAUTION!
The spillages from the food can
blocked the burner holes, because
of this place the food in centre of the
shelf in the gas oven.
Top oven
The top oven is the smaller of the two ovens. It
has 3 shelf positions. Use it to cook smaller
quantities of food. It gives especially good
results when used to cook fruitcakes, sweets
and savoury flants or quiche.
Main oven
The main oven is particularly suitable for
cooking larger quantities of food.
Tips on baking
Baking results
The bottom of the cake is not
browned sufficiently.
The cake sinks and becomes
soggy, lumpy or streaky.
The cake sinks and becomes
soggy, lumpy or streaky.
The cake sinks and becomes
soggy, lumpy or streaky.
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Baking
• Your oven can bake or roast differently to the
• The manufacturer recommends that you use
• If you cannot find the settings for a special
• You can extend baking times by 10 – 15
• Cakes and pastries at different heights do
• With longer baking times, you can deactivate
When you cook frozen food, the trays in the
oven can twist during baking. When the trays
become cold again, the distortions are gone.
Possible cause
The shelf position is incorrect.
The oven temperature is too high. The next time you bake, set a
The baking time is too short.
There is too much liquid in the
mixture.
appliance you had before. Adapt your usual
settings (temperature, cooking times) and
shelf positions to the values in the tables.
the lower temperature the first time.
recipe, look for the one that is almost the
same.
minutes if you bake cakes on more than one
shelf position.
not always brown equally at first. If this
occurs, do not change the temperature
setting. The differences equalize during the
baking procedure.
the oven approximately 10 minutes before
the end of the baking time and then use the
residual heat.
Put the cake on a lower shelf.
slightly lower oven temperature.
Set a longer baking time. You
cannot decrease baking
times by setting higher tem-
peratures.
Use less liquid. Be careful with
mixing times, especially if you use
a mixing machine.
Remedy
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