Are you really ready? Are you ready for the relatives, the friends and the mountains of food? Your cooking abilities and the demand of cooking casseroles, meats, and side items will test your patience and your appliances. Don’t ruin your holidays when you realize at the last hour that your appliances are not going to cut it for the festivities. The joy of friends and food goes out the window while your anxiety goes through the roof once you see that you cannot pull it off this year.
It’s a good time now to prepare for holiday cooking by testing your cooking appliances to insure they will be ready when you need them. For most families the daily use of a range or wall oven does not push the appliance to its limits. If you are the host to a holiday feast this year, you already know you will be cooking more food than normal so here is some insight into a big issue that could create a culinary train wreck.
One of the greatest mistakes you want to avoid this holiday season is to wait till the last minute to put your appliance in self-cleaning mode. In most ovens with this setting the oven moves to a very high temperature so that baked-on foods inside the oven can be removed or burned off with high heat. What you may not know is that this setting can actually cause older ovens to fail because of the extreme heat and stress on the oven. The setting can be an effective step in cleaning but older ovens are susceptible to failure during this setting.
We recommend that if you use the self-cleaning mode on your oven then test the mode now. Replacing an oven can take from three days to two weeks; it all depends on the brand and availability. Along with availability, the two weeks before Thanksgiving is one of the busiest times of the year for cooking appliance replacements. So we suggest getting ahead of the crowd, testing your oven now and doing a quick review of the cooking demands about to beset you.
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