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Oven - Hints and tips
WARNING!
Refer to Safety chapters.
The temperature and baking times in
the tables are guidelines only. They
depend on the recipes and the
quality and quantity of the
ingredients used.
Top oven
The top oven is the smaller of the two ovens. It
has 3 shelf positions. Use it to cook smaller
quantities of food. It gives especially good
results when used to cook fruitcakes, sweets
and savoury flants or quiche.
Main oven
The main oven is particularly suitable for
cooking larger quantities of food.
Baking
• Your oven can bake or roast differently to the
appliance you had before. Adapt your usual
settings (temperature, cooking times) and
shelf positions to the values in the tables.
• The manufacturer recommends that you use
the lower temperature the first time.
• If you cannot find the settings for a special
recipe, look for the one that is almost the
same.
• You can extend baking times by 10 – 15
minutes if you bake cakes on more than one
shelf position.
• Cakes and pastries at different heights do
not always brown equally at first. If this
occurs, do not change the temperature
setting. The differences equalize during the
baking procedure.
• With longer baking times, you can deactivate
the oven approximately 10 minutes before
the end of the baking time and then use the
residual heat.
When you cook frozen food, the trays in the
oven can twist during baking. When the trays
become cold again, the distortions are gone.
Tips on baking
Baking results Possible cause Remedy
The bottom of the cake is not
browned sufficiently.
The shelf position is incorrect. Put the cake on a lower shelf.
The cake sinks and becomes
soggy, lumpy or streaky.
The oven temperature is too high. The next time you bake, set a
slightly lower oven temperature.
The cake sinks and becomes
soggy, lumpy or streaky.
The baking time is too short. Set a longer baking time. You
cannot decrease baking
times by setting higher tem-
peratures.
The cake sinks and becomes
soggy, lumpy or streaky.
There is too much liquid in the
mixture.
Use less liquid. Be careful with
mixing times, especially if you use
a mixing machine.
The cake is too dry. The oven temperature is too low. The next time you bake, set a
higher oven temperature.
The cake is too dry. The baking time is too long. The next time you bake, set a
shorter baking time.
The cake browns unevenly. The oven temperature is too high
and the baking time is too short.
Set a lower oven temperature
and a longer baking time.
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