What is the purpose of the "Preheat" setting on the oven? Why not just "Preheat" on the "Bake" setting?

If you forget to turn the oven from "Preheat" to "Bake", the temperature doesn't get high enough. Why not just turn to "Bake" to start with? Asked by IMOLOL 58 months ago Similar questions: purpose Preheat setting oven Bake Food & Drink > Cooking.

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Preheat will beep to let you know it's ready Using "preheat" will alert you to when the oven has reached the specific temperature you set it for, by beeping or buzzing. Some food items won't turn out quite right unless the oven is at a specific temperature when the food is first put in. Maybe an example of this would be a quiche or puff pastry.

Sometimes the immediate higher heat "sets" the food item. Also, if you preheat the oven and put the food in when the oven beeps, you will know your exact cooking time. The "bake" setting will not alert you to when the oven reaches your desired temperature.

For something like a pizza, sure, you could just push the "bake" button and stick the pizza in right away but then you'd probably have to extend the cooking time for 5 minutes more than the directions say because the oven wasn't at the proper temperature for the first portion of the cooking time. Heck, maybe you should just use the microwave! .

Preheat setting seems to have no purpose I don't have this setting on my oven; I set to bake and let it come to temperature before I insert food. Everything turns out fine. PreheatTo turn the oven on so it has time to come up to the desired cooking temperature.

For years it was assumed it would generally take 20 minutes for an oven to reach the cooking temperature. Testing has shown most modern gas and electric ovens can do this in 8 minutes. Further testing has shown that cooking food in a cold oven for the same time as in a preheat one, showed no difference in the finished product.

Technique Sources: recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=517 .

I've never owned an oven with a preheat setting, but from what I've read, the preheat setting is supposed to gauge the temperature of the oven and beep when that temp is reached. Allegedly, other ovens just beep after a set period of time, and don't actually check the temperature. Never having had a preheat setting, I don't miss it.

I just turn the oven on and if I really need it at a certain temp, it's simple enough to check the oven thermometer to see if I've gotten there yet. Otherwise, it just beeps after its been on for a while, and usually that's close enough. If your preheat setting isn't doing what you think it should, there's no reason I can think of why you need to use it.

As I said, I've never had an oven with that setting, so it's not like it's something that's required.

How my oven works When my oven 'preheats', both the top and bottom heating element come on to get the temperature up to where you want it quickly. If you were to 'broil', only the top heating element would stay on. When you want to 'bake', only the bottom heating element will come on to keep the temperature constantly at your desired setting.

Hope that helps.

So that it beeps most likely this is so that your oven makes a beep when it has reached the desired temperature Sources: personal experience .

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