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This oven bug costs a lot of money - what you can do about it

2020-12-13T12:30:24.471Z


There is more to consider when preheating the oven than you think. If you avoid certain mistakes, you will save electricity, money and the cookies will taste better too.


There is more to consider when preheating the oven than you think.

If you avoid certain mistakes, you will save electricity, money and the cookies will taste better too.

  • For many dishes, consumers are advised to

    preheat

    the

    oven

    .

  • If you make

    mistakes

    , you can

    quickly

    waste

    electricity

    while

    baking

    .

  • There are also a

    few

    tips and tricks

    to avoid

    negative baking

    results.

Offenbach - In many recipes in the cookbook or on the Internet, but also on the packs of frozen products, the note

“preheat the oven”

can

always

be found.

Sounds simple at first, but there are a few things to consider when preheating the oven in order to get the perfect result.

If you are stressed or simply too impatient and hungry, you

can simply put

the frozen

pizza

in the cold

oven

.

One quickly asks oneself: Does

preheating

make sense at all or does it just consume

electricity

unnecessarily

?

Because it's baked in the end.

Setting on the oven

symbol

Top heat

Horizontal line in the upper part of the square

Bottom heat

Horizontal line in the lower part

Two-sided heat

Horizontal line above and below

circulating air

Horizontal line above and below with fan

grill

Jagged line or triangles in the upper part of the square

Preheating the oven correctly: these tricks save energy and money

In general,

preheating the oven

is particularly useful for dishes that only stay in the oven for a short time at a high temperature, such as a soufflé or fish and meat.

Companies often use the instructions for preheating because the

ovens heat up at

different speeds.

The ambient temperature also influences how quickly it heats up.

However, once the oven is brought up to temperature and the dish is only then pushed in, a

specific time

can be

specified on the packaging

and the user knows exactly when the dish is ready.

+

Preheating the oven correctly: these tricks save energy and money.

(Symbol photo)

© Svenja Wallocha

The

oven

does not necessarily have to be preheated for

cakes, bread or frozen food, where a crust forms relatively late

.

This is a quick way to save

energy and money

.

Even the federal government recommends that preheating “is normally not necessary” for newer ovens.

With convection it is also possible to set the baking temperature 20 to 30 degrees lower.

"Circulating air is therefore more efficient than top and bottom heat."

Preheat the oven correctly: Warning, heat shock - if you make a mistake, cookies will fail

Energy can also be saved if all

trays are

removed from the

oven

before

preheating

.

Otherwise they will only be heated up unnecessarily.

Tender

baked goods

can also fail on a baking sheet that is too hot because the temperature difference between the

dough,

which is at room temperature

and the

red-

hot sheet, is too

great

.

There is a kind of heat shock.

The baked goods quickly become hard or tough, frozen pizzas too dry.

When baking cookies, work with several trays so that they can cool down after each baking.

Just using a tray and letting it cool down doesn't make much sense.

The

oven

runs empty and uses unnecessary energy.

Oven: This is how long an oven takes to preheat - in contrast to a gas stove

If no temperature is given when

preheating the oven

, a

rule of thumb

can be relied on relatively well

.

Electric ovens typically take 15 minutes.

It is therefore advisable to switch the oven on at the beginning or during preparation.

With gas stoves, the required temperature is reached more quickly.

(Svenja Wallocha)

List of rubric lists: © Svenja Wallocha

Source: merkur

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