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Delicious Baking Recipes Whileelectricstovetops certainly have their share of frustrations,electricovens generally get a thumbs-up all around when it comes tobaking.They provide steady heat for even cooking and a dryenvironmentthat helps turn the tops of our Saturday morning muffinsa lovelygolden-brown. Even so, there are a few important tricks youmightlike to know to get the most from your electric oven.
Understanding Your Electric Oven Electric ovens have alargeelectric coil just under the floor of the oven compartment.Thiscoil pushes radiant heat upwards into the oven compartment atafairly steady and even rate. Like gas ovens, they may have asecondcoil on the roof of the oven to serve as the broiler, butit's theone on the floor of the oven that usually does the work ofkeepingyour oven hot.Electric ovens are generally awesome forbaking. Thecoils heat and cool slowly, which may sound like anegative, butactually results in steadier heat with fewer spikesand drops oftemperature. The heat is also less intense when thecoils are fullyon, so you don't usually have the same incidence ofundersidesburning as you do with gas ovens. Additionally, theovenenvironment is much drier, which helps foods crisp up andturngolden-brown.
These are general characteristics of electric ovens. Keep inmindyour own oven might not behave quite the same.DeliciousBakingRecipes