How to Preheat Oven for Baking / How to Preheat an Oven / What is Oven Preheating

Preheat an oven to --- Degree C..This is sentence which you will be seeing in most of my baked recipes. I have been getting so many mails from my viewers, what is preheating, how should we preheat and why should we preheat.

Preheating is not a rocket science. It is just heating a oven empty before you put the cake tin or any tray in.

What is Preheating?

Preheating is just heating a oven without anything just a prior 10 mins or so before you put the cake tin or any dishes in. This ensures the oven reaches the proper and correct temperature.

Why should we Preheat?

If you put a cake tin or tray in a cold oven then heat it gradually, then the cooking time will get vary from the recipe and it wont bake evenly and ends up getting dry and unbaked. Preheated oven cooks the food properly and bake it to perfection. So preheating is a must before you put the cake tin or any food in.

How should we Preheat?

Dont complain about my oven, it looks dirty but it is a very old oven of mine, but works like a pro.