Why Housewives Keep Salt in the Oven: You'll Be Surprised When You Find Out
Experience in cooking is of decisive importance. For some, it is even more important than the recipe or knowledge of the technology of cooking the dish.
It is experience that will help when, for example, the dough is mixed properly, the oven is preheated, but the baked goods or some other dish are still far from ideal.
Here's a trick that will help you out in such a situation, not even a trick, but ordinary salt. It's worth remembering this at the moment when the dish in the oven is not baked through.
How salt can help in the oven
In this case, you need to pour salt into a deep baking tray, the more the better, and put it in the oven, placing it on the very bottom.
During the heating process, the salt will absorb heat and release it if the oven starts to cool down for some reason.
In essence, this is the same trick that housewives pull with a brick.
The only positive thing about salt is that if something leaks during the cooking process – filling or fat – it will be absorbed into the salt and you won’t have to wash anything off.
Brick is unlikely to help out in this regard, but in other respects it works just as well.
