What are good tips for an oven that is too hot at the bottom?
I am cooking various food at home in a new oven that I am kind of stuck with. We're renting and this is the only oven we have at the moment. It has four gas stoves at the top.
The oven is fan assisted but it is a cheap fan and an old grill and oven. Daewoo Cooker DCG5050SI
Basically it burns all my baked dishes. Burns the bottom of the cakes. I always make brownies, cookies and various cakes and no matter what I have tried--the different shelf rack, placing an extra tin. Nothing helps. My cakes always burn at the bottom. What are some tips to prevent this? I've even tried to cut the cake half way or at the end - and ended up with messy food.
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I'm a person that goes on vacation and bakes bread. As such, I have met a few terrible ovens around the world, and temporarily improved most of them to work better...
Grab a roll of aluminum foil (heavy duty is nice if you have it, or if you don't have any are are buying a roll with this in mind.)
On the bottom oven shelf, come in a few wires from the sidewalls (to allow some air circulation) and crimp on one end of a long sheet of foil - this sheet will be shiny side down, hung below the shelf, and attached to the shelf again in a similar location on the far side of the oven. You'll probably need two sheets (one for the front, one for the back) and should leave a similar small gap at front and back for some circulation, while keeping the centers tight or overlapped.
You can get much of the effect (but not quite as well, or as "semi=permanently") by putting foil, shiny-side down, on the bottom of your baking pans. If either is is not enough by itself, do both. It should help a lot.
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You can get much of the effect (but not quite as well, or as "semi=permanently") by putting foil, shiny-side down, on the bottom of your baking pans. If either is is not enough by itself, do both. It should help a lot.Why is my oven hotter at the bottom?
The temperature of the oven is higher at the bottom when the oven is being preheated or just turned on. It is because the conventional oven has heating sheets in the bottom of the oven and the heat travels from the bottom to the top.How do I stop the bottom of my oven from burning?
If the burning always happens on the top or bottom of the food, sometimes the easy fix is just to move the level of your pan. If the top is burning, move to a lower oven rack. If the bottom is burning, raise your oven rack so that your food is further from the hot element.How do you fix an oven that is too hot?
Rather than using the middle racks, place your baking sheet directly on the floor of the oven. This will "provide the hottest, most even and direct heat possible."Oven Keeps Overheating - Troubleshooting | Repair \u0026 Replace
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I like to make my own pizza but the oven is not so much like the pizza oven in a pizza parlor. My common convection gas oven is too scorchy so I stack two cookie sheets on the rack below the one I'm using. It seems to block the direct rush of scorching heat enough to get more even cooking.
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