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How long should you preheat the oven and how long does it take?
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You’ve made the batter scooped the cookies and scored the bread but now you realize you forgot to preheat the oven. We’re all guilty of skipping a recipe or simply missing a step. We’ve all been in this situation and you might be wondering if you can get away with not preheating the oven.
Preheating the oven is simply turning the oven on to your desired baking temperature in advance so that it reaches that temperature before you start baking. You may think it’s obvious but a hot oven starts all of your favorite baking reactions right from the start. It sets the pastry in puff pastry creates the flaky layers in your pie crust gives your sourdough bread its oven spring and starts the second act of double-acting baking powder.
