Use and Care Guide

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Oven Baking
For best cooking results, preheat the oven before baking cookies, breads, cakes, pies, 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 Problems and Solutions
Baking Problems C
auses Corrections
Cookies and biscuits burn
on the bottom.
• Cookies and biscuits put into
oven
before oven is
preheated.
• Ov
en rack is overcrowded.
• Dark pan absorbs heat too
fast.
• Allow oven to preheat to desired temperature before
placing food in oven.
• Choose pan sizes that will permit at least 2” of air space
(5.1
cm) on all sides when placed in the oven.
• Use a medium weight shiny baking sheet.
Cakes to
o dark on top or
bottom
• Cakes put in oven
before
oven is preheated.
• Rack position too high or
too low.
• Oven to
o hot.
• Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature
befo
r
e placing food in the oven.
• Use proper rack position for baking needs.
• Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) lower than recom-
men
ded
.
Cakes not done in center • Oven too hot.
• Incorrect p
an siz
e.
• Pan not centered in oven.
• Glass cookwar
e slow heat
conductor.
• Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) lower than recom-
mended
.
• Use pan size suggested in recipe.
• Use proper rack position and place pan so there are at
least 2” (
5
.1 cm) of space on all sides of pan.
• Reduce temperature and increase cook time or use
shiny bakewa
re.
Cakes not level. • Oven not level.
• Pan too close to oven wall or
rack ov
ercrowded.
• Pan warped.
• Oven light left on while
b
a
king.
• Place a marked glass measuring c
up filled with water on
the center of the oven rack. If the water level is uneven,
refer to the installation instructions for leveling the oven.
• Use
proper rack position and place pan so there are at
least 2” (5
.1 cm) of space on all sides of pan.
• Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
• Do not leave the oven light on while baking.
Foo
d
s not done when
cooking time is over
.
• Oven too cool.
• Oven overcrowded.
• Oven door opened too
freq
uently.
• Set
oven temperature 25°F (13°C) higher than
sugg
ested 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 the shortest recommended
baking tim
e.
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