22The Best Use of Bake Ware• You should bake cakes, quick breads, muffins, andcookies in shiny, reflective pans for light, goldencrusts. avoid old, darkened, warped, dented, stainlesssteel and tin-coated pans. they heat unevenly and willnot give good baking results.• use medium gauge aluminum sheets with low sideswhen 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 packagerecommendations.• when using glass bake ware, reduce the recipe tem-perature by 25°f, except when baking pies or yeastbreads. follow the standard recipe baking time forpies and yeast breads.• use the pan size and type recommended by the recipefor best results.• for roasting, Dacor’s optional “v” shaped rack andbroil/roast pan works best to allow air circulationaround the food.• Dacor’s roasting pan works particularly well and twoof them will fit side by side in a 30-inch oven.optional Broil and roast Pan Kit(aorPVr)orDeep dish broil-roast ban(one per kit)“v” shaped rack grillCooking TipsFood Placement• typically, when baking on two racks with your oven,use rack positions #3 and #5 (counting from thebottom up). when baking on three racks, use rackpositions #2, #4 and #6.• turn pans on the racks so that the long sides run leftto right, as you face them.• when you are cooking a food item that is very heavy,use the Dacor gliderack oven rack. you can pull it outfurther than a conventional rack, making it easier tocheck the food, stir or add ingredients.• heavier roasting pans and dishes will cook better onrack position #1.• when using a baking stone, use rack position #3 forbest results.• if you put a baking stone on the gliderack oven rack,instead of one of the standard oven racks, you canpull the stone out of the oven further, making pizzaeasier to remove.1234576