I've bought a new oven and 1 its smaller than my other oven so not all my tins fit in there and 2 I'm just struggling to to cook a decent cake, they're burning on top and not cooked in the middle. I've bought the wilton baking strips today and they were useless as the cake still burnt and was not cooked in the middle. Has anyone else had problems like this,
Any advice is appreciated.
You need an oven thermometer to go inside your oven. No oven, in my experience it exactly the temperature it says on the knob or dial.
Until you can get your oven checked, try lowering your racks. In my oven, if the top rack is in the middle where it's supposed to be, then cakes don't bake well. So I put it just above the lower rack and they come out fine.
It's important to have an accurate oven thermometer even if your oven was working perfectly.
I'm really sorry that your new oven is giving so much trouble. I can relate.
Michele
Do you guys have any hints for Gas oven? I am loosing my electric oven and have to go back to my gas one, but I haven't used that one for baking cakes...And umm, this is going to be for the christmas orders I have close to christmas 5 in 2 days!!! HELP!
If the top is burning and the middle isn't done, it doesn't sound like a temperature problem, sounds like a top rack problem.
Plus you may have been used to baking your cakes at a higher temperature in your old oven because the older oven probably didn't heat as high as it said it did. I know someone who has an older oven and has to set the temperature about 50 degrees higher than a recipe calls for.
Or it may be that you're not using the oven correctly. You dont' have it on preheat do you? lol
I've had my oven about 12 years now and when I first got it I had the same problem. Mine turned out to be a rack position problem. All I had to do was move the top rack to the middle position and it turns out well now.
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