Oven Cooking - Kenmore 911.30425 Use & Care Manual

OVEN COOKING
GENERAL RULES
• When cooking a food for the first time in your new
oven, use time given on recipes as a guide.
Your new oven has been set correctly at the factory and
Is apt to be more accurate than the oven tt mplacedo
After you have used your oven for awhile, If you feel
your oven should be hotter orcooler, you can adjust
it yourself. See TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENTS
In this manual.
• NO PEEKING-- Opening the door too often to check
food during baking will allow heat loss and may
cause poor baking results.
• There may be some odorwhen theoven ISfirst used. This
is caused by the heating of new parts and Insulation.
• Do not cover an entire oven rack with foil. The foil
can block normal heat flow and cause poor baking
results. Do not place any foil directly on the oven
bottom. Foil used on the oven bottom may damage
the oven surface, therefore, It should not be used.
OVEN VENT
When theoven is on, heated air moves through a vent be hind
the grille.
The vent Is necessary for proper air circulation in the
oven and good baking results. Do not block this
vent, Doing so may cause cooking failure, fire or
damage to the range,
PREHEATING
When recipes require preheating, have food nearby
before you open the oven door° if the oven door is
allowed to remain open for more than a brief time,
the preheat temperature will be lost.
. Let the oven preheat thoroughly before placing
foods In the oven. If your oven Is equipped with a
Preheat Indicator Light, watch for It to come on
and put the food in the oven. if not, preheat for 10
minutes before putting food in the oven°
BAKEWARE
• Cookies should be baked on flat cookle sheets
without sides to allow the air to circulate properly.
Cakes, muffins, and qulck breads should be baked
in shiny pans m to reflect the heat -- because they
should have a light golden crust. Yeast breads and
pie crusts should be baked In glass or dull (non-
shiny) pans -- to absorb the heat -- because they
should have a brown, crisp crust.
Be sure the underside of the pan Is shiny, too.
Darkened undersides will absorb the heat and may
cause over-browning on the bottom of your food_
Oven t_nperaturesshould be reduced 25 degrees below
recommended temperatures If exterior of pan Is
predarkened, darkened by age or oven proof glass.
OVEN IGN|TJON
When youtumtheoven on,the glow bar igniter beginsto heat.
When the igniter Is hot enough (in about I minute) the gas
flows into the burner and ts Ignited.
The igniter glows bright orange when hot. It cycles on
and off wlth the thermostat and will glow whenever the
burner is on.
During a power failure the oven
burner cannot be lit and you should
not try to do so, Doing so could
severely injure you.
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