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Working With Your Oven

Fran Costigan - Working With Your Oven

This event was on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

Are you tired of burnt bottoms and soggy centers? Do you feel like your oven is more of a foe than a friend? Well, fear not my friends, because the queen of vegan baking, Fran Costig… Read More.

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Question:

When following a cookie recipe, and I make 2 cookie-sheets when the recipe calls for just one, do I raise oven temperature for having more in it? Or if using 2 racks of the oven instead of one, is the top rack hotter?

— Joy Rabb

Answer:

A lot of recipes will tell you to bake one tray of cookies at a time on this. center rack because that's the best place for cookies to bake unless unless the recipe is a reliable recipe and it says something else the top rack is definitely hotter and the bottom. third of your oven your cookies are going to burn so it's I've made you know, I have some cookie recipes where I can. Stack the ovens this way and that's another thing about convection ovens. Sometimes they come with three racks often they come with You know four rocks for rocks, or even I've even seen some with five because you're supposed to be able to bake more at the same time. So Joy, maybe you bake one of the time.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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