Manual
Cooking Instructions
BakingProblems
For best cooking resuIts, 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 casseroIes.
The cooking times and temperatures needed to bake a product may vary slightly from your
previously owned appliance.
BakingProblemsandSolutionsChart
Cookies and bis- • Cookies and biscuits put into the • Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature before
cults burn on the oven before the preheating time is placing food in oven,
bottom, completed.
• Oven rack overcrowded or rack • Choose pan sizes that will permit 5.1 cm to 10.2 cm (2_to
_ position too low. 4") of air space on all sides when placed in the oven
I
_ • Dark pan absorbs heat too fast. ° Use a medium-weight aluminum baking sheet.
Cakes too dark on • Cakes put into the oven before • Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature before
preheating time is completed, placing food in the oven.
top or bottom, • Rack position too high or low, • Use proper rack position for baking needs.
• Oven too hot. • Set oven temperature 25°F/12°0 lower than recommended.
_xxxxx
Cakes not done in • Oven too hot. • Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C lower than recommended.
the center. • Incorrect pan size. • Use pan size suggested in recipe.
• Pan not centered in oven.
<_! • Use proper rack position and place pan so there is 5.1 cm
to 10.2 cm (2" to 4") of space on all sides of pan.
• Place a marked glass measuring cup filled with water on
Cakes not level. • Range not level.
the center of the oven rack. If the water level is uneven, re-
fer to the installation instructions for leveling the range,
• Pan too close to oven wall or rack • Be sure to allow S,l cm to l0 2 cm (2 to 4 ) of clearance
overcrowded on all sides of each pan in the oven.
• Pan warped. ° Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
Foods not done • Oven too cool-
when cooking time
is up= • Oven overcrowded,
• Oven door opened too frequently.
_i_iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
• Set oven temperature 25°F/12°C higher than suggested
and bake for the recommended time.
• Be sure to remove all Pans from the even except the ones
to be used for baking.
• Open 0ven door only after shortest recommended baking
time.