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When cooking a Dundee cake or rich fruit cake, always wrap 2 layers of brown paper around the sides and
check after each hour.
A piece of brown paper may need to be put over the top. Always ensure foods are cooked through before
serving, pork, poultry and fish in particular .* See page 28 for more information on cooking a turkey.
The cooker is fitted with a device to measure the temperature in the middle of the oven.
This lets you check the temperature inside the oven and adjust food cooking temperatures more accurately.
Electric oven
USING THE THERMOMETER
When you turn on the oven, the orange light comes on to indicate that the heating
elements are working: The thermometer dial will start to move towards the set
temperature.
The orange light will keep going on and off, indicating that the heating elements are
working to maintain the temperature inside the oven.
The light may go off for a few minutes before the thermometer has reached the
temperature required. This is normal, because operation of the heating elements is
regulated so that heat is distributed properly inside the oven.
Heat is optimally distributed inside the oven when the thermometer dial has stopped.
If the oven temperature drops or goes up, the thermometer dial will follow these
variations in the same way.
When the oven is turned off, the temperature on the thermometer will slowly drop until
it reaches room temperature.
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