What happens if you don't preheat an oven?

[gazpacho]

*Originally posted by kniz *
**What kind of ovens do you folks have? We have one put out by General Electric (run of the mill) and it will get to temp in less than 5 minutes at high temp. However, I appreciate the information on baking cakes, racer72. **

I generally let the oven sit at the temperature for about 15 or 20 minutes. The reason being that you want the oven walls not just the air in the oven to get up to temperature. If you don’t then the oven temperature drops a lot when you open it to put the goodies in and takes longer to recover if the oven walls are not hot.