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BEFORE YOU CALL Solutions to Common Baking Problems For best cooking results, fully preheat 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 • Cookies and biscuits put into • Allow oven to preheat to desired temperature before burn on the bottom. oven before the preheating time placing food in oven, is completed. • Oven rack is overcrowded. • Choose pan sizes that will permit 2 to 4 inches (5.1 to 10.2 cm) space on all sides when placed in the • Dark pans absorb heat too fast. oven. • Use a medium weight baking sheet. Cakes too dark on top • Cakes put in oven before or bottom. preheating time is completed. • Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature before placing food in the oven. • Rack position too high or too low. • Oven too hot. • Use proper rack position for baking needs. • Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) lower than recommended. Cakes not done in center. Cakes not level. • Oven too hot. • Incorrect pan size. • Pan not centered in oven. • Oven not level. • Pan too close to oven wall or rack overcrowded. • Pan warped. • Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) lower than recommended. • Use pan size suggested in recipe. • Use proper rack position and place pan to allow for 2 to 4 inches (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) space on all sides of pan. • 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. • 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. • Do not use pans that are dented or warped. • Oven light left on while baking. Foods not done when • Oven too cool. cooking time is over. • Oven overcrowded. • Oven door opened too frequently. • Leave oven light off while baking. • Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) higher than suggested 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 shortest recommended baking time. 56

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Solutions to Common Baking Problems
For best cooking results, fully preheat 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.
•
Cookies and biscuits put into
oven before the preheating time
is completed.
•
Oven rack is overcrowded.
•
Dark pans absorb heat too fast.
•
Allow oven to preheat to desired temperature before
placing food in oven,
•
Choose pan sizes that will permit 2 to 4 inches (5.1
to 10.2 cm) space on all sides when placed in the
oven.
•
Use a medium weight baking sheet.
Cakes too dark on top
or bottom.
•
Cakes put in oven before
preheating time is completed.
•
Rack position too high or too
low.
•
Oven too hot.
•
Allow oven to preheat to the selected temperature
before placing food in the oven.
•
Use proper rack position for baking needs.
•
Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) lower than
recommended.
Cakes not done in
center.
•
Oven too hot.
•
Incorrect pan size.
•
Pan not centered in oven.
•
Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) lower than
recommended.
•
Use pan size suggested in recipe.
•
Use proper rack position and place pan to allow for
2 to 4 inches (5.1 cm to 10.2 cm) space on all sides
of pan.
Cakes not level.
•
Oven not level.
•
Pan too close to oven wall or
rack overcrowded.
•
Pan warped.
•
Oven light left on while baking.
•
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.
•
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.
•
Do not use pans that are dented or warped.
•
Leave oven light off while baking.
Foods not done when
cooking time is over.
•
Oven too cool.
•
Oven overcrowded.
•
Oven door opened too
frequently.
•
Set oven temperature 25°F (13°C) higher than
suggested 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 shortest recommended
baking time.
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