13
Preheating
When you need to preheat the oven, we recommend you do so for 10 minutes. For recipes needing high
temperatures, e.g. bread, pastries, scones, soufflés etc., best results are achieved if the oven is preheated first. For
best results when cooking frozen or cooked chilled ready meals always preheat the oven first.
Cooking
• Ensure that food is placed centrally on the shelf and that there is sufficient room around the baking tray/dish
to allow for maximum heat circulation.
• Stand dishes on a suitably sized baking tray on the shelf to prevent spillage onto the oven base and to help
reduce cleaning.
• The material and finish of the baking tray and dishes used affect browning of the bottom of the food. Enamel-
ware, dark, heavy or non-stick utensils increase browning of the bottom of the food. Shiny aluminium or
polished steel trays reflect the heat away and give less browning of the bottom of the food.
• When cooking more than one dish in the oven, place dishes centrally on different shelves rather than cluster
several dishes on one shelf, this will allow the heat to circulate freely for the best cooking results.
• If you are cooking more than one tray of similar items, for example cakes or biscuits, swap the trays during
cooking or you can remove the top tray when the food is cooked and move the lower tray to the higher shelf
to finish cooking.
• Do not place baking trays directly on the oven base as it interferes with the oven air circulation and can lead to
burning of the food. Use the lower shelf position.
The thermostat settings detailed below are a guide only and refer to the temperature in the centre of the oven.
Main Oven S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Temperature in °C 100 130 140 160 180 190 200 220 240 255
• If accurate temperatures are required then this should be checked using an oven thermometer available at
most cookware shops.
• During cooking, do not open the door unnecessarily as you will lose heat and your cooking results may
change.
• Using cake tins when cooking cakes will give better results.
LFSTG50W_IB_final110420.indd 13 20/04/2011 10:09 PM
To Next Page
Loading...
Need help?
General
