Delicious Baking Recipes

Delicious Baking Recipes While electric stovetops certainly have their share of frustrations, electric ovens generally get a thumbs-up all around when it comes to baking. They provide steady heat for even cooking and a dry environment that helps turn the tops of our Saturday morning muffins a lovely golden-brown. Even so, there are a few important tricks you might like to know to get the most from your electric oven.

Understanding Your Electric Oven Electric ovens have a large electric coil just under the floor of the oven compartment. This coil pushes radiant heat upwards into the oven compartment at a fairly steady and even rate. Like gas ovens, they may have a second coil on the roof of the oven to serve as the broiler, but it's the one on the floor of the oven that usually does the work of keeping your oven hot.Electric ovens are generally awesome for baking. The coils heat and cool slowly, which may sound like a negative, but actually results in steadier heat with fewer spikes and drops of temperature. The heat is also less intense when the coils are fully on, so you don't usually have the same incidence of undersides burning as you do with gas ovens. Additionally, the oven environment is much drier, which helps foods crisp up and turn golden-brown.

These are general characteristics of electric ovens. Keep in mind your own oven might not behave quite the same.Delicious Baking Recipes