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Don't preheat your oven

Posted on September 30, 2008

by TerraPass When temperatures drop, home cooks break out the roasting pan. But recipes contain a lot of outdated lore, particularly admonishments to preheat your oven. Although pre-heating may be helpful for certain sensitive tasks like baking, your meat and vegetables probably aren't going to notice the difference.How this helpsWhen you preheat an oven, you're spending a lot of energy to heat up a small amount of air which then goes whooshing out when you open the door to put in the food. Preheating can be an especially pernicious habit if you turn on the oven before you start doing foo...

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