Interesting Cooking Notes |
Your Pans depending on the reflective or absorptive quality will effect roasting and baking time. Recent tests have shown that an hour can be cut from the roasting time of a 10 to 12 pound turkey if it is cooked in a dark enamel pan that absorbs heat rather than in a shiny metal one that reflects it.
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Timing Your Cooking
Foil has insulative qualities when used in wrap-cooking.
Where you place an item in the oven will effect its cooking time and/or the final product.
The temperature of the food (room temp. or refrigerated) at the start of cooking will effect the cooking time. One of those basic laws of Thermodynamics
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Altitude will effect cooking. We have a section on Cooking with Altitude to help with the special issues which can arise.
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