Kenmore 790.9506 Use & Care Manual page 20

Setting Oven Controls
Cakes and Breads
The Cakes Breads functions are designed to give optimum
baking performance for Cakes or Breads. These functions work
well for baking cakes, brownies, pies (fresh or frozen), baked
custards, cheesecakes, breads, rolls, biscuits, muffins and corn-
bread.
The Cakes function provides a preheat with a gentle cycling of
heat giving cakes more volume and allowing delicate foods to
cook more evenly.
The Breads function adds a special preheat feature to the bake
cycle that thoroughly heats the oven from top to bottom to give
more evenly browned foods.
To set the Cakes or Breads features with a default temperature
of 350°F:
1. Arrange interior oven racks when cool. Preheat oven as
desired and place food in oven.
2. For Cakes, press the Cakes Breads until CAKES appears in
the oven control display.
For Breads, press the Cakes Breads until BREADS appears in the
oven control display
3. Press
.
Figure 26: Oven set for Cake baking
Figure 27: Oven set for Bread baking
Important note:
• Dark or dull pans and glass absorb more heat than shiny
bakeware resulting in dark, over browned, or under cooked
foods. To prevent this it may be necessary to reduce the
oven temperature or cook time of some foods.
• Do not open the oven door too often. Opening the door will
reduce the temperature in the oven.
• Breads will have better results baking on a single oven rack.
• Layer cakes will have best results using the Cakes function.
Baking layer cakes with 1 or 2 oven racks
For best results when baking cakes or cookies using 2 oven
racks, place cookware on rack in positions 3 and 5 (6 if using
the offset oven rack). For best results when baking cakes or
cookies using a single oven rack, place offset oven rack in
positions 3 or 4.
Proof Bread (Warmer Drawer)
The warmer drawer has a Proof Bread feature that may be used
to prepare bread dough. The recommended length of time to
keep fresh or thawed bread dough in the warmer drawer is
about 45-60 minutes. Times may vary depending on the dough.
Be sure however to follow the recipe's recommended times.
Since the bread dough will nearly double in volume be sure to
place the prepared dough in a large bowl. Arrange the warmer
drawer rack in the downward position
bowl with dough on the warmer drawer rack.
Figure 28: Warmer drawer rack down for proofing bread
To set Proof Bread using warmer drawer:
1. Arrange the warmer drawer rack in warmer drawer and
place bread dough in a large bowl on warmer drawer rack.
Close warmer drawer.
2. Press ON-OFF to turn ON warmer drawer.
3. Press Lo once set warmer drawer to Lo power setting.
4. Press Lo again to activate Proof Bread feature. The Proof
Bread indicator light will glow when the Proof Bread feature
is active (Figure 29).
5. When the bread dough is ready, press ON-OFF to turn the
warmer drawer off and remove bread dough from warmer
drawer.
Figure 29: Bread Proof indicator light
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(Figure 28) and place the