baking tips – Pollywog's Place Blog

Have you ever turned on the oven to preheat, only to remember there’s a pan (or three!) hiding inside? Or started baking a beautiful loaf of bread and completely forgotten you were supposed to turn the temperature down?

Well, you’re certainly not alone!

Around here, there are always a dozen things happening at once, and sometimes it’s the simplest little reminders that make the biggest difference.

That’s why I created this handy Check the Oven / Turn Down the Heat Placard!

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I don’t know about your house but here we often have different people doing different things in the kitchen. One rule is that they need to check the oven before turning it on because sometimes people tend to ‘hide’ things in there and forget about them.

I’ve had many things that have been ruined because one person put a dish in there and the next person didn’t check it… most recently it was a plastic cover for one of my casserole dishes and the whole dish of peach cobbler that had been made for dinner… sigh.

This dish alone will cost me almost $40.00 ** to replace as I haven’t been able to find the lid sold separately… luckily the carrier is still alive!

More often than not it was my bread dough that was hanging out in there… minding its own business when someone would forget to check, even with the oven light on they forget, and then the temperature would go up and ruin the dough… (crying face).