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Solutions to Common Baking Problems
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 Chart
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 to 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 to allow for 2” to
4” (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) of space on all sides of pan.
Cakes not level.
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Range 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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Oven light left on during baking.
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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 range.
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Be sure to allow 2” to 4” (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) of
clearance on all sides of each pan in the oven.
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Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
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Keep oven light off while baking.
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.
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