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Originally Posted by Trollheart
That preheating thing has always confused me. Preheat for how long? What's a decent time to wait before you lob the chicken in? And isn't it supposed to go in upside down first or something? What about washing it beforehand? Though now apparently that's not advised...  |
Preheat until your oven has reached the desired temperature for baking. On most models this only takes about 5 minutes or so, but stick a thermometer probe in there just to make sure. "Preheating" is just the process of your oven heating up from 0 degrees to whatever. So if you stick the food in there right away, it will be undercooked when you take it out and you'll have to cook it longer.