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