Dacor Wall Oven Use & Care Manual - page 25
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Cooking Tips
Additional Accessories
Optional cookie sheets: The Dacor
®
full sized cookie sheets
maximize oven rack baking capabilities by utilizing the total
useable rack space.
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27 inch cookie sheet (3 per carton)
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®
Part No. AO273CS
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30 inch cookie sheet (3 per carton)
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®
Part No. AO303CS
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Pizza baking stone.
Order Dacor
®
Part No. ABS20
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Large capacity roast/broil pan with V-shaped rack.
Order Dacor
®
Part No. AORPVR
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Additional 27-inch standard oven rack.
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®
Part No. 72747
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Additional 30-inch standard oven racks.
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®
Part No. 72713
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Additional 27-inch GlideRack™ oven rack.
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®
Part No. AO27RG
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Additional 30-inch GlideRack™ oven rack.
Order Dacor
®
Part No. AO30RG
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Additional meat probe.
Order Dacor
®
Part No. 72723
food placement
NOTE:
The rack positions mentioned below are counting from the
bottom up.
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Typically, when baking on 2 racks, use rack positions #2 and
#4 or #1 and #4. When baking on 3 racks, use rack positions
#1, #3 and #5.
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When you are cooking a food item that is very heavy, use
the Dacor
®
GlideRack™. You can pull it out further than a
conventional rack, making it easier to check the food, stir, or
add ingredients.
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Heavier roasting pans and dishes will cook better on rack
position #1.
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When using a baking stone, use rack position #1 for best
results.
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If you put a baking stone on the GlideRack™, instead of one
of the standard oven racks, you can pull the stone out of the
oven further, making pizza easier to remove.
The Best Use of Bake Ware
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You should bake cakes, quick breads, muffins, and cookies in
shiny, reflective pans for light, golden crusts.
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Use medium gauge aluminum sheets with low sides when
preparing cookies, biscuits, and cream puffs. Dacor
®
cookie
sheets, with their low profiles, will give you the best results.
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Bake most frozen foods in their original foil containers, placed
flat on a cookie sheet. Follow the package recommendations.
When using glass bake ware, reduce the recipe temperature
by 25˚F, except when baking pies or yeast breads. Follow the
standard recipe baking time for pies and yeast breads.
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Place pans carefully on the oven racks. Turn pans on the
racks so that the long sides run left to right, parallel to the
door.
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For roasting, a V-shaped rack in a roasting pan works best
to allow air circulation around the food. Dacor’s roasting pan
works particularly well and 2 of them will fit side by side in a
30 inch oven chamber.
high Altitude Cooking
Due to the lower atmospheric pressure at higher altitudes, foods
tend to take longer to cook. Therefore, recipe adjustments should
be made in some cases. In general, no recipe adjustment is
necessary for yeast-risen baked goods, although allowing the
dough or batter to rise twice before the final pan rising develops a
better flavor. Try making the following adjustments for successful
recipes. Take note of the changes that work best and mark your
recipes accordingly.
Altitude:
Baking powder.
for each
teaspoon,
decrease by:
Sugar,
for each
teaspoon,
decrease by:
liquid, for
each cup
add:
3,000
feet
10%
5 - 10%
5 - 10%
5,000
feet
10 - 25%
10%
20%
7,000
feet
25%
20%
20 -25%
High Altitude Cooking
Cleaning and maintaining Your Oven
Self-Cleaning
WARNING:
Do not leave the racks, the meat probe, pots, pans, utensils,
or any other items in the oven in during self-cleaning. The
convection filter must also be removed. Items left in the oven
during self-cleaning may be damaged.
WARNING:
The control panel automatically locks the oven door during
self-cleaning. Do not try to force the door open after it is
locked. Damage to the door latch may result.
WARNING:
Do not touch the outside surfaces of the oven during the self-
clean cycle. They will be hot.
WARNING:
Do not line the oven with aluminum foil or other materials.
These items can melt or burn during self-cleaning and cause
permanent damage to the oven.
WARNING:
Take extreme caution when cleaning the door gasket.
Rubbing, moving or in any way damaging the door gasket
may eliminate the required tight door seal. See page 25 for
cleaning instructions.
ImpORTANT:
Always remove excess grease and soil from the oven interior
and door prior to using the self-clean cycle. See page 25 for
proper cleaning instructions.