The main oven
Heat zones Using the main oven
There are zones of heat within the oven. The
? Open the oven door.
temperature in the middle is the gas mark
you have chosen. The top of the oven is ? Push in the control knob and turn it to
slightly hotter and the lower shelf slightly gas mark 9. Press the ignition button
cooler. The base of the oven is quite a lot immediately.
cooler. You can make use of these heat
? When the burner has lit release the
zones when you are cooking foods requiring
button. There will only be small flames
different temperatures all at the same time.
at first.
If you are cooking more than one tray of
similar items, for example cakes or biscuits,
? Turn the control knob to the required
swap the trays during cooking or you can
gas mark.
remove the top tray when the food is cooked
and move the lower tray to the higher shelf ? Wait until the oven burner is showing
to finish cooking. large flames.
? Close the oven door.
Preheating
? To turn the oven off, push in the control
When you need to preheat the oven, we
knob and turn to the off position. This is
recommend you do so for 20 minutes.
shown by a large dot.
For recipes needing high temperatures, e.g.
bread, pastries, scones, soufflés etc., best
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results are achieved if the oven is preheated
first. For best results when cooking frozen or
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cooked chilled ready meals always preheat 8
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the oven first.
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To fit the main oven shelves S
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The shelves should be fitted with the straight 52
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rods uppermost on the frame and the forms 4
towards the back of the oven. If not fitted
correctly the anti-tilt and safety stop
mechanism will be affected.
Storage
The compartment below the oven is useful
for storing baking trays, cake tins and so on.
Do not store anything in this compartment
which may catch fire.
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