Any loyal follower of recipes, particularly baking recipes, will recognize a common first instruction: "Preheat your oven to..." In baking, we learn that precision is important, but that doesn't mean ...

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Preheating is generally an important step when it comes to cooking. Whether it's an oven or a stovetop skillet, we preheat our appliances so that when our food goes in, it starts to cook right away.

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If you flip through any cookbook or click on the creations in our ample recipe archives, you’ll likely see a very familiar refrain in step 1: “Preheat the oven to…” While this requires extremely ...

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