/ck/ - Food & Cooking

There are some things that merely need heating to the point of being hot, like a fucking frozen pizza, and some things that need a bit more finesse, like a roast chicken, which would dry out because of the extended time in the heat

>>11776026
Yes, it's indeed retarded to preheat your oven for frozen pizza.

>>11776026
Good mother of fuck that's the most reddit post I've ever seen.

>>11776026
Depends on the design of the oven, but if you get to know your own you can skip pre-heating a lot of the time. Personally, I have to subtract 2 or 3 minutes from a frozen pizza's box instructions due to the pizza being subject to higher radiant heat while the oven is warming up.

>>11776046
i already do that the box makes things too crispy
>>11776041
I don't even remember the last thing I put in my oven that wasn't a pizza. All my meals are created in my frying pan.

If you pee heat the oven for normal everyday fucking foods you're a fucking drone. Of course there's some things which work better pre heated like cakes and shit. My mother used to put some fucking chips and sausages in the oven after preheating. Just put it on an extra 5 minutes.

>>11776049
t. nigger

>>11776026
preheating is essential, you're a fag for falling for reddit bait, unless this thread is complex bait itself then it works.

>>11776026
Heating your oven costs fucking nothing though

>>11776026
You need to go back.
Also you're a faggot if you think that starting from a cold oven leads to predictable results.
Make something more complicated than a fucking frozen pizza, bachelor trash

>>11776026
I feel like preheating cooks it more evenly, but just throwin it in there works well it just seems to cook uneven.

Pizza is pizza, kinda hard to fuck that up desu senpai.

what kind of fuckass oven takes 14 minutes to preheat?

>>11776559
your moms

>>11776026
You have to go back. You and you're type are cancer on this site

>>11776026
heating pre-cooked things like frozen food is fine
but if you're going to bake something raw you preheat

>>11776559
Anything bigger than a toaster oven.

>Hah! I don't need to preheat my oven for a frozen pizza!

It's a bullshit myth like salting pasta water

>>11776587
>doesnt salt his pasta water

>>11776562
Boom.

>>11776026

>anecdotal evidence
>Reddit

Use your brain for once in your fucking life and you would realize why sometimes it makes sense and sometime soon it's pretty irrelevant. Now fuck off.

>>11776044
Don't check the ones about relationships and accepting being cucked then

If using a pizzastone or baking steel, you need to preheat the oven to get your cooking surface hot.

This gives a much better non-soggy botttom to your pizza.

That was painful to read. I couldn't even finish the whole thing

>>11776026
I put frozen pizza's straight under the grill in my oven. Doesn't even take 5m for it to finish. To come out soft but thoroughly baked. A bit like a actual pizza from a woodfired oven.

>>11776569
>thinks his food will spoil in the 10 mins it takes to reach pasteurization temp
imagine being this retarded tho

I pick both. The pretentious redditor is wrong AND you're an idiot.

>>11776666
You mean the broiler? You put things on a grill and under a broiler.

>>11776920
Why do Americans have to fuck up the meaning of words so much?

I've never visited reddit before, but fucking hell. is it really like this?

>>11776026
>waiting 15 minutes to preheat your oven
that's a shitty oven u got there moite

Preheating is essential in consistency. Since all ovens vary, the producer can't just say
>Turn the oven on for 450
>Place pizza in oven for 14-30 minutes
By allowing to preheat, they can get that time crunched down to 3-5 minutes in difference.

>>11777443
>get called out for being retarded
>larps as a Euro to cover his ass

>>11776026
Or you buy an oven that comes up to temp in 3 minutes

>>11776026
you have to go back

>>11777625
There's no such thing.

There are ovens which lie to you and claim they are ready to cook that fast though.

>>11777650

they're called "convection ovens", dumbass

>>11778170
the controller is still lying to you, dumbass.

a convection oven contains a fan which blows hot air around inside it. that doesn't magically heat up the interior of the oven any faster. Educate yourself.

>>11776682
it won't literally spoil but you'll be eating overcooked chicken

>>11776176
Hey those 12 cents he's saving are gonna stretch far

>>11776041
Yeah, those extra five minutes spent in not-quite-roasting-temperature added to the hour of roasting really ruins the chicken. Yes sir.

its called consistency

>>11776026
Lmao I'd like to see this faggot try baking a cake in a cold oven.

>>11778184
Engineer here. Blowing air around in the oven will in fact heat it up faster. Heat transfers far quicker by convection than by radiation/conduction (through air) alone. If you want entirety of the interior of the oven (i.e. the walls) to reach a uniform temperature as quickly as possible, convection is the way to go. It will also cook the food faster.

>>11776026
I thought one of the reasons to preheat was that a preheated oven is much more evenly heated than one that is still heating, so putting food in a non-preheated oven can lead to uneven cooking.

>>11776026
I usually put the oven on broil and the pizza is finished 2-3 minutes after the oven beeps

>>11776587
This post is yikes

>>11776026
If you eat frozen fries, I do now and again for convenience, put them in the oven then turn the oven on. They actually come out crispier on the outside. Trust me and try it.

>>11779466
How are they going to be frozen after they've been in an oven? This is the most obvious troll I've ever seen.

>>11779548
Either you've had a left wing education, in which case ask for your money back. Or, Mommy prepares all your meals.

>>11776580
>Hah! I don't need to preheat my oven for a frozen pizza!
Yep you don't. Retard