27Cooking TipsThe Best Use of Bake WareYou should bake cakes, quick breads, muffins, and•cookies in shiny, reflective pans for light, goldencrusts.use medium gauge aluminum sheets with low sides•when preparing cookies, biscuits, and cream puffs.Dacor® cookie sheets, with their low profiles, will giveyou the best results.Bake most frozen foods in their original foil contain-•ers, placed flat on a cookie sheet. Follow the pack-age recommendations. When using glass bake ware,reduce the recipe temperature by 25˚F, except whenbaking pies or yeast breads. Follow the standardrecipe baking time for pies and yeast breads.place pans carefully on the oven racks. Turn pans on•the racks so that the long sides run left to right, paral-lel to the door.For roasting, a v shaped rack in a roasting pan works•best to allow air circulation around the food. Dacor’sroasting pan works particularly well and 2 of them willfit side by side in a 30 inch oven chamber.High Altitude CookingDue to the lower atmospheric pressure at higher alti-tudes, foods tend to take longer to cook. Therefore, recipeadjustments should be made in some cases. In general,no recipe adjustment is necessary for yeast-risen bakedgoods, although allowing the dough or batter to rise twicebefore the final pan rising develops a better flavor. Trymaking the following adjustments for successful recipes.Take note of the changes that work best and mark yourrecipes accordingly.altitude:BakingPowder,for eachteaspoon,decreaseby:sugar, foreach tea-spoon,decrease by:liquid, foreach cupadd:3,000 feet 10% 5 - 10% 5 - 10%5,000 feet 10 - 25% 10% 20%7,000 feet 25% 20% 20 -25%High altitude CookingAdditional AccessoriesOptional cookie sheets: The Dacor full sized cookie sheetsmaximize oven rack baking capabilities by utilizing thetotal usable rack space.27 inch cookie sheet (3 per carton)•Order Dacor part No. AO273CS30 inch cookie sheet (3 per carton)•Order Dacor part No. AO303CSpizza baking stone.•Order Dacor part No. ABS20Large capacity roast/broil pan with v shaped rack.•Order Dacor part No. AOrpvrAdditional 27 inch standard oven rack.•Order Dacor part No. 72747Additional 30 inch standard oven racks.•Order Dacor part No. 72713Additional 27 inch Gliderack oven rack.•Order Dacor part No. AO27rGAdditional 30 inch Gliderack oven rack.•Order Dacor part No. AO30rGAdditional meat probe.•Order Dacor part No. 72723Food Placementnote: The rack positions mentioned are counting fromthe bottom up.Typically, when baking on 2 racks, use rack positions•#2 and #4 or #1 and #4. When baking on 3 racks,use rack positions #1, #3 and #5.When you are cooking a food item that is very heavy,•use the Dacor Gliderack. You can pull it out furtherthan a conventional rack, making it easier to checkthe food, stir, or add ingredients.heavier roasting pans and dishes will cook better on•rack position #1.When using a baking stone, use rack position #1 for•best results.If you put a baking stone on the Gliderack, instead•of one of the standard oven racks, you can pull thestone out of the oven further, making pizza easier toremove.