Handling Baking & Grilling Problems - Westinghouse WLE620WA User Manual

HANDLING BAKING & GRILLING PROBLEMS
PROBLEM
Uneven cooking
Baked products too brown on top
Baked products too brown on bottom • Baking tins too large for the recipe. - Use correct size tins.
Cakes have a cracked, thick crust
Baked products are pale, flat and
under-cooked
Cakes fallen in the centre
Roast meat & potatoes not browning
in fan oven
Juices running out of meat
Grilled meats overcooked on
outside & raw in the centre
Grilled chops & steaks buckling
BAKING & GRILLING
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PROBLEMS
CAUSES
• Incorrect shelf position.
• Oven tray too large.
• Trays not centralised.
• Food has not been rotated.
• Oven not preheated.
• Aluminium foil in oven.
• Baking tins too large for the recipe. - Use correct size tins.
• Baking tins not evenly spaced.
• Products not evenly sized or
spaced on trays.
• Baking temperature too high.
• Food too high in oven.
• Baking tins are dark metal or glass. - Change to shiny, light tins or lower the
• Food too low in the oven.
• Oven door opened too frequently
during baking.
• Baking temperature too high.
• Baking temperature too high.
• Food too high in oven.
• Cake batter over mixed.
• Pan too deep.
• Baking pans dark.
• Baking temperature too high.
• Food too low in the oven.
• Baking time too short.
• Incorrect tin size.
• Baking temperature too high.
• Baking time too short.
• Proportions of ingredients incorrect
in the recipe.
• Opening door too early in baking. - Do not open the door until the last
• Poor hot air circulation.
REMEDIES
- Select shelf that puts food in the centre of
the oven.
- Experiment with other trays or dishes.
- Centre trays.
- Rotate food during cooking.
- Preheat until the oven indicator lamp
goes off.
- Remove foil.
- Stagger baking tins at least 3cm
between tins and the oven walls.
- Make into same size and shape,
and spread evenly over trays.
- Lower the temperature.
- Cook on shelf lower.
temperature by 10 C.
o
- Cook one shelf higher.
- Don't open the oven door until at least half
the cooking time has passed.
- Lower the temperature.
- Lower the temperature.
- Cook one shelf lower.
- Mix just long enough to combine
ingredients.
- Check size of pan and use
recommended size.
- Change to shiny pans.
- Lower the temperature.
- Cook one shelf higher.
- Increase cooking time.
- Use correct size tin.
- Lower the temperature.
- Increase cooking time.
- Check recipe.
quarter of cooking time.
- Elevate food onto a rack to allow air
circulation.
- Do not pierce meat with fork.
- Turn with tongs.
- Grill at lower shelf position.
- Cut fat with knife towards the meat.