What is the difference in cooking with gas ovens vs electric ovens?!
What is the difference in cooking with gas ovens vs electric ovens?
at home i use a gas oven and learned how to bake really well with it. recently tried baking a cake with an electric oven and it didnt go so well. i didnt do anything differently, but the top of the cake started to brown to fast and the inside wasnt cooking at the same speed so i ended up with a hard slightly burnt top of the cake. is the temperature or time different on electrical ovens than it is with gas ovens? or is there anything i can do to fix this problem so my cakes come out better?
Answers:
Gas heats up quicker than electric so you might need to wait longer for electric before putting food in. Also it sounds like you might have a fan-forced oven at home which will distribute the heat evenly throughout, whereas the other oven probably isn't, so it is hotter at the top. Fan-forced normally are set at 10-15 degrees Celsius lower than non fan-forced. Try putting the cake lower in the other oven next time.