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| Onion Quiche |
A lot
of recipes say to preheat the oven before putting food in to cook. Are
there any dishes you can bake without preheating? --Amy V.
When
you’re baking cakes, pies, cookies, quiches, bagels or anything made with
yeast, pre-heating the oven is very important. Just a few days ago I put
my pizza stone in the oven but forgot to turn on the heat. When I was
about to slide my homemade pizza onto the stone, I suddenly realized my
mistake.
So the
uncooked pizza sat on the counter on the pizza paddle until
my oven reached 500
degrees. We had a late dinner, but the pizza cooked properly. I
probably could have winged it and started with a cold oven. If you search
around, you can find bread recipes that say 'no-preheating necessary.'
But I wouldn’t have known how long to bake the pizza. I would have kept opening
the oven door to check. That would not have been good.
Some dishes aren’t affected by putting them in a
cold oven and then turning on the heat. Examples include baked potatoes,
beets, onions and other root vegetables such as parsnips and turnips.
Length of baking varies slightly, but a platter of roasted
vegetables may be fully roasted in 30 minutes with a preheated oven
but won’t be harmed if they stay in the oven for 40 minutes with a cold
start. Test for doneness by poking with a fork
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