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Cold Oven Baking??

Barbarainnc — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:03:48 GMT

I was reading about Cold Oven Pound Cakes. Cook's Country baked a Cold Oven Pound cake recipe in a preheated oven to see what would happen. The cake was dense and crustless. The one baked in a cold oven produced a higher rise and thick crust.

My aunt always made a Cold Oven Pound Cake. I tasted it and never liked it. So of course I will never make a Cold Oven Pound Cake.

Just wondered if any of you make Cold Oven Pound Cakes?

Or if you make other cakes, this way in a cold oven??

Re: Cold Oven Baking??

ennui_too — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:04:40 GMT

Explain ""cold oven.""

Re: Cold Oven Baking??

Barbarainnc — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:08:43 GMT

The oven is not preheated like most recipes call for you to do.

Put the cake in the oven and set the temp and cut the oven on.

Preheat means to cut the oven on to a certain temp. for about 10 minutes or until the oven is heated to a certain temp.

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Pook — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:15:18 GMT

I have a cold oven pound cake recipe and it's the best ever!!! That's the only kind I'll make.

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ennui_too — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:23:13 GMT

On 8/9/2014 Barbarainnc said:
The oven is not preheated like most recipes call for you to do.

Put the cake in the oven and set the temp and cut the oven on.

Preheat means to cut the oven on to a certain temp. for about 10 minutes or until the oven is heated to a certain temp.

I do cold oven baking all the time. I didn't know there was a name for it.

I do it to conserve energy. I only pre-heat the broiler.

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Barbarainnc — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:27:43 GMT

But,doesn't cold oven cook longer to cook ??

What items have you cold baked??

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ennui_too — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:17:02 GMT

On 8/9/2014 Barbarainnc said:
But,doesn't cold oven cook longer to cook ??

What items have you cold baked??

Cold oven cooking doesn't take any longer. My oven heats quickly. I turn on the oven, place whatever inside, and set the timer. I usually use the oven for anything that takes a while to cook, anyway, like deep dish pizzas or casseroles. Five minutes one way or the other isn't going to make a big difference.

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spud188 — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:52:58 GMT

Never heard of such a thing till I heard about that Trisha Yearwood turkey recipe. Has anyone tried that??

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Harpa — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:28:42 GMT

Never heard of this, and it never crossed my mind to bake cakes that way, let alone anything else.

The few times I thought I was saving time by throwing things in a non-preheated oven, things never came out right.

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jaxs mom — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:45:53 GMT

I make it and I like it.

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debcakes — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:57:40 GMT

My pound cake recipe has been in the family for generations. It goes in a cold oven at low heat for 1 1/2 hrs. It is very good but I do not make it on a warm day. The crust is fabulous.

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glmama — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:21:13 GMT

There are very few things I can think of, from memory, that I've started in a cold oven. However, just recently I was looking at Angel Food Cake recipes and many of them say to start in a cold oven.

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brii — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:52:08 GMT

I've never heard of that.

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KYToby — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:13:17 GMT

Pastries (including most cakes), pizzas, and other items requiring a high initial heat to set a product must be started in a hot oven for best results; utilizing a cold oven will result in inferior quality.

Things such as casseroles, dishes being reheated, many meats, and recipes developed for cold oven baking are fine to start in cold ovens.

Cold oven pound cake was developed electric range manufacturers when they first came on the market. T/he manufacturers used it as a marketing tool, selling customers on the idea that one could make a cake starting in a cold oven, saving fuel, electricity, money, and time over other (then) more common stove types such as gas or kerosene.

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ECBG — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:24:48 GMT

People used to do this years ago with a whole turkey in the oven all night. Turkeys aren't processed the same now. It's highly dangerous because of deadly bacteria. That's why you have to take them off the bone after cooking to refrigerate. Now we have cooking bags which shortens the time.

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debcakes — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:43:33 GMT

On 8/10/2014 ECBG said:
People used to do this years ago with a whole turkey in the oven all night. Turkeys aren't processed the same now. It's highly dangerous because of deadly bacteria. That's why you have to take them off the bone after cooking to refrigerate. Now we have cooking bags which shortens the time.

I did not know this. Fortunately I have taken it off the bone anyway, but to save space in the frig.