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Before You Call
Oven Baking
For best cooking results, 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 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
Causes
Corrections
Cookies and biscuits burn
on the bottom
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Cookies and biscuits put into
oven before the preheating
time is completed.
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Oven rack is overcrowded.
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Dark pans absorbs heat too
fast.
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Allow oven to preheat to desired temperature before
placing food in oven.
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Choose pan sizes that will permit 2” to 4” of air space (5.1
cm o 10.2 cm) on all sides when placed in the oven.
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Use a medium weight baking sheet.
Cakes too dark on top or
bottom
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Cakes put in oven before
preheating time is completed.
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Rack position too high or too
low.
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Oven too hot.
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Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature before
placing food in the oven.
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Use proper rack position for baking needs.
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Set oven temperature 25°F/13°C lower than recom-
mended.
Cakes not done in center
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Oven too hot.
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Incorrect pan size.
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Pan not centered in oven.
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Set oven temperature 25°F/13°C lower than recom-
mended.
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Use pan size suggested in recipe.
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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.
Cakes not level
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Oven not level.
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Pan too close to oven wall or
rack overcrowded.
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Pan warped.
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Place a marked glass measuring cup 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.
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Be sure to allow 5.1 cm to 10.2 cm (2” to 4”) of clearance
on all sides of each pan in the oven.
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Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
Foods not done when
cooking time is over
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Oven too cool.
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Oven overcrowded.
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Oven door opened too
frequently.
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Set oven temperature 25°F/13°C higher than suggested
and bake for the recommended time.
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Be sure to remove all pans from the oven except the ones
to be used for baking.
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Open oven door only after shortest recommended baking
time.
