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What you're cooking and how your oven preheats are the main factors in determining if it's necessary to preheat your oven.

“Preheat oven to 350 degrees.” I hate this phrase. First, as George Carlin pointed out, it’s linguistically absurd—you don’t preheat an oven, you heat it. More importantly, however, it ...

As one guest in our weekly cooking chat stated: “I’ve been baking a lot of bread this winter, and I’ve found that I MUST preheat the oven to 350 or 375 before I put the loaves in.

Knowing how long it takes to preheat an oven will help you determine how many minutes it'll be before dinner is on the table.

Can't wait for the oven to heat, so you skip it altogether and shove that pizza straight in? There are some dishes that actually benefit from a cold-oven start.

If your oven isn't cooking properly, it may not be heating to the set temperature like it should. Use this quick test to check and diagnose you oven.