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1 Exercise: Heat Transfer

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How Baking Works

By Paula Figoni

Published 2003

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Imagine that you are baking cookies in an oven and you need to slow down heat transfer, so that the cookies don’t burn on the outside before they are cooked throughout. Explain the reason that each of the following techniques works to decrease heat transfer. As an example, number 1 is completed for you.

  1. Use a lower oven temperature.

    Reason: This is the most direct way to decrease heat transfer, since it reduces the amount of heat radiated from the heat source.

  2. Use shiny metal sheet pans rather than black matte ones.

    Reason: ____________________

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  3. Use stainless-steel pans instead of aluminum.

    Reason: ____________________

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  4. Replace old, stained sheet pans with shiny new ones.

    Reason: ____________________

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  5. Use thick-gauge pans rather than thin-gauge ones.

    Reason: ____________________

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  6. Use double sheet pans by placing one sheet pan inside another.

    Reason: ____________________

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  7. Keep sheet pans away from oven walls.

    Reason: ____________________

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  8. Place cookies on a silicone pad (Silpat) instead of directly on a sheet pan.

    Reason: ____________________

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  9. Turn off the fan in a convection oven.

    Reason: ____________________

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