GE JGRP20SENSS Use and Care Manual - Page 13

Safety Instructions GEAppliances.com Cookies When baking cookies, flat cookie sheets (without sides) produce better-looking cookies. Cookies baked in a jelly roll pan (short sides all around) may have darker edges and pale or light browning may occur. Do not use a cookie sheet so large that it touches the walls or the door of the oven. Never entirely cover a rack with a large cookie sheet. For best results during baking, use only one cookie sheet in the oven at a time. Pies For best results, bake pies in dark, rough or dull pans to produce a browner, crisper crust. Frozen pies in foil pans should be placed on an aluminum cookie sheet for baking since the shiny foil pan reflects heat away from the pie crust; the cookie sheet helps retain it. Peeking Set the timer for the estimated cooking time and do not open the door to look at your food. Most recipes provide minimum and maximum baking times such as "bake 30-40 minutes." Cakes When baking cakes, warped or bent pans will cause uneven baking results and poorly shaped products. A cake baked in a pan larger than the recipe recommends will usually be crisper, thinner and drier than it should be. If baked in a pan smaller than recommended, it may be undercooked and batter may overflow. Check the recipe to make sure the pan size used is the one recommended. DONOT open the door to check until the minimum time. Opening the oven door frequently during cooking allows heat to escape and makes baking times longer. Your baking results may also be affected. Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Using the roasting feature. Roasting is cooking by dry heat. Tender meat or poultry can be roasted uncovered in your oven. Roasting temperatures, which should be low and steady, keep spattering to a minimum. Before You Begin Roasting... Roasting is really a baking procedure used for meats. Therefore, the oven controls are set for Baking or Timed Baking. (You may hear a slight clicking sound, indicating the oven is working properly.) Timed Baking will turn the oven on and off automatically. Most meats continue to cook slightly after being removed from the oven. The internal temperature will rise about 5° to 10°F during the recommended standing time of 10 to 20 minutes. This allows roasts to firm up and makes them easier to carve. To compensate for this rise in temperature, you may want to remove the roast sooner (at 5° to 10°F less than the temperature in the Roasting Guide). REMEMBER: Food will continue to cook in the hot oven and therefore should be removed when the desired internal temperature has been reached. How to Set Your Oven for Roasting Place the rack in A or B position. No preheating is necessary. Check the weight of the meat. Place the meat fat side up, or poultry breast side up, on roasting grid in a shallow pan. The melting fat will baste the meat. Select a pan as close to the size of the meat as possible. (A broiler pan with grid is a good pan for this.) Touch the BAKE pad. To change the oven temperature during the roasting cycle, touch the BAKE pad and set the new temperature. Touch the + or - pad to set the oven temperature. Touch the START pad. Touch the CLEAR/OFF pad when roasting is finished. 13 Consumer Support