Sears 71381 - Manual (Page 8)

OVEN COOKING
When cooking a food for the first time in your new
oven, use time given on recipes as a guide.
Your new oven has been set correctly at the factory
and is more apt to be accurate than the oven it
replaced.
After you have used your oven for awhile, if you feel
your oven should be hotter or cooler, you can adjust
it yourself. See TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENTS In
this manual.
Always follow recipe carefully.
Measure Ingredients properly.
Use proper pan placement.
Place pans on the oven racks with i" to 11/2" of air
space on all sides of each pan. Avoid overcrowding
the oven. .
Pans too close to each other, to oven walls or to the
oven bottom, block the free movement of air. Im­
proper air movement causes uneven browning and
cooking.
Be sure the underside of the pan Is shiny, too.
Darkened undersides will absorb the heat and may
cause over browning on the bottom of your food.
2 cake layers
4 cake layers
When baking several items stagger pans so that no
pan Is directly above another.
Let the oven preheat thoroughly before cooking
baked products. Allow 10 minutes for preheating.
Opening the door too often to check food during
baking will allow heat loss and may cause poor
baking results.
Cakes, cookies, muffins, and quick breads should
be baked in shiny pans — to reflect the heat —
because they should have a light golden crust.
Yeast breads and pie crusts should be baked in
glass or dull (non-shiny) pans—to absorb the heat
— because they should have a brown, crisp crust.
• Oven temperatures should be reduced 25 degrees
below recommended temperatures if exterior of pan
is predarkened, darkened by age or oven proof
glass.
• There may be some odor when the oven Is first used.
This Is caused by the heating of new parts and
insulation.
• Do not cover an entire oven rack with foil. The foil
can block normal heat flow and cause poor baking
results. Do not place any foil directly on the oven
bottom. Foil used on the oven bottom may damage
the oven ^rface; therefore, it should not be used.
• Cookies should be baked on flat coOkle sheets
without sides to allow the air to circulate properly.
• When recipes require preheating, have food nearby
before you open the oven door. If the oven door is
allowed to remain open for more than a brief time,
the preheat temperature wilt be tost.
OVEN VENT
When the oven Is on, heated air moves through a vent In
or below the backguard behind the cooktop. On the
cooktop, this hot air may make pot handles hot or melt
plastic Items left too near the vent.
The vent Is necessary for proper air circulation In the
oven and good baking results. Do not block this
vent. Doing so may cause cooking failure, fire or
damage to Uie range.
MOISTURE
' As your oven heats up, the temperature changeoftheair
I n t he oven may cause water d rt^lets to form on the door
or door glass. To prevent this, open the oven door for
the first minute of oven heat up to let the moist air out.
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