“Preheat oven to 350 F.” This is the first line of the majority of baking recipes in print. Be it for cookies, cakes or ...

“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 ...

“If the recipe specifically requires a temperature of 350°F for an hour, and the oven hasn’t yet reached this temperature, putting a cold item into the oven will lower the temperature even ...

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.

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.

It takes 12 to 15 minutes or so to reach 350° F, according to the appliance pros at Whirlpool. ... Preheat the oven for anything needing a quick rise or crust, like cakes, cookies, or pizza.

The higher the desired temperature, the longer it takes to get there (say 450° F vs. 350° F); a bigger oven may also take a touch more time because there’s more air to heat up.

Hang an oven thermometer in the center of the middle rack and preheat the oven to 350˚F (176.67˚C). Allow the oven to preheat for at least 20 minutes and take a temperature reading.