There are a few things to consider when preheating the oven.
Avoiding certain mistakes saves electricity and money.
For many recipes, consumers are advised to
preheat
the
oven
.
If you make
mistakes
, you can
quickly
waste
electricity
when
baking
- that costs money.
Tips and tricks
where preheating is worthwhile and where not.
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 just 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 use unnecessary
electricity
?
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: these tricks will save you 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 has been 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.
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 for newer ovens that preheating “is normally not necessary”.
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."
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Expensive oven mistakes: How to avoid them and save money
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Preheating the oven: Avoid heat shock - this is how the Christmas cookies turn out
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.
This is how long the oven needs 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)
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