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WEEK 44
By: E. Lax

hacks
hacks
Tried and True
home
home
Tips for the
Busy Balebusta
OVEN
HEATING UP
“Now you tell me to put the cake in a preheated oven?!” If you somehow missed the
first step in the recipe and now you’re in a rush to get the cake into the oven, you
can speed up the preheating process significantly by running the broiler setting for
TEMP TEST five minutes. This quickly brings up the heat, cutting the preheating time in half. The
broiler setting does stress out your oven though, so only rely on this hack when you
Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if your cookies stayed raw because the recipe is inaccurate, really need to.
or your oven is the one at fault.
To test if your oven is too cold, preheat it to 375°. Place a small amount of sugar on a
cookie sheet and heat it for 15 minutes. If the sugar doesn’t melt, your oven is running
cold. If sugar melts at 350°, then your oven runs too hot.
Knowing this, you can adjust the temperature accordingly when baking. HOT SPOTS
If you find that your oven
Get that
bakes unevenly, it might be
because of some hot spots.
SPILLS AND SALT SELF DESTRUCTION You can check your oven Get that
Gadget
for hot spots by placing a
It’s wonderful when a kugel What’s the easiest way to clean an oven? If parchment lined baking Gadget
rises nice and fluffy, but you said self clean, think again. According sheet in the center, and bake
less than wonderful when to appliance repairmen, this is the most at 400° for 20 minutes. The
it overflows in the oven. If common way for an oven to break. Self darkened areas of the paper Keeping your oven clean is so easy
you happen to notice an oil clean brings up the oven to almost 1000° will indicate hotter parts of when you use an oven liner. Just lay
for three to five hours, which is enough to
spill in the middle of baking fry the appliance itself. That’s beside the the oven which you could it at the bottom of the oven (or the
something, pour some salt on fact that after heating up your kitchen to then learn to avoid, or repair bottom rack), and it’ll catch any drips
it right away. This way, instead impossible-to-stay-in-here temperatures if needed. crumbs that find their way down.
of baking into a hard stain, and spreading harsh fumes, it doesn’t even
the spill will be a lot easier to clean your oven that well. So yeah, just use Available at your local
clean up when you’re done. some good old oven cleaner instead! supermarket
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SAFETY FIRST If you use the Neronim wax
True story: In the midst of baking a delicious brownie bundt cake, Mrs. W. heard an Shabbos candles that go inside Share your Email hacks@balebusta.com
explosive POP! in her oven, followed by an awful smell that reeked for days. The a glass, removing the leftover favorite Call: 845.287.0707 #5
mystery was finally solved when she found a burnt tuna can in the bottom drawer of wax can be super difficult. To hacks: Text: 845.287.0707
the oven. make things easier, pour a drop
of oil into the glass before you
Lesson: Always check your oven and drawer before turning it on, even if you never put put in the candle. The leftover Dear readers! Do you want to read
anything inside. You never know what you might find in there! wax will slide out with no effort! about a specific topic?
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