What is wrong with the oven?
Do you know how many times she opened the oven for the meat dishes? Maybe
she opened the oven door multiple times, and left the door open while
checking/basting/etc.
"TOM KAN PA" > wrote in message
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> My sister in law put six defrosted chicken thighs into one of those
throwaway
> aluminum pans, poured a can of Cream of Celery soup over them. Covered
them
> with foil and put them into a 350º oven. After 45 minutes, she uncovered
them.
> It took another hour and 15 minutes, a total of two hours before they were
> done. She also said that the pork roast she did on New Year's day took a
long
> longer than it should have by using the weight/temperature guideline. And
in
> the past, other items put into the oven seemed to sometimes not be done
when
> they should have been.
> I had given her one of those probe thermometers, the one where the probe
goes
> into the meat and the thermometer sits on the counter. She told me that
she
> forgot to use it on the pork, but her husband used it to check the oven
> temperature. I didn't think this type thermometer would give an accurate
> reading of the air temperature, I still think the thermostat is wrong.
But, she
> said that she baked a cake, and it baked perfectly in the time and
temperature
> that was on the box.
> Any ideas of what the problem could be?
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