Watery cooking?

Question

Everything I have to cook in my gas oven comes out watery!!! Meatloaf, casserole dishes. I can make the same thing at a friends house with the same ingredients and it comes out perfect. What can I do with this older gas stove to make it work? I rent so I cant just replace it! Thank for any help

Answer 1

Invest in a oven thermometer and see if the thermostat is registering correctly and make adjustments accordingly. Here's a thought also, you said "gas", when you cooked the same thing at your friends place does he have "gas" or propane

Answer 2

O.K if you can't replace and your recipes work fine everywhere else you can try these tips.
1) Any recipe that calls fluid fluid (water/milk/stock) addition-cut down on the recommended quantities.
2) Similarly any recipe that calls for a thickening agent -flour etc- put in slightly more than suggested.
3) During cooking process strain off excess fluid
4) Cook at slightly higher temperature setting than recommended

I guess too that if you've got this problem you've also got 'mushy' food at the end of the cooking time.
One quick way of drying off some dishes is to place under a salamander (grill) and this might get you a better finish

Answer 3

Uncover the dish and purchase an oven thermometer. The kind that inserts into the meat and has a wire attached to a digital display that is placed outside of the oven. It will monitor the temperature throughout cooking. They cost about $13-17 at WalMart.

Answer 4

Sounds like you may be cooking to long or at to low a temp. If your oven is older put a meat thermometer in there and set the temp dial at 200, when the thermostat kicks the oven off check the meat thermometer, if it reads lower than the 200 degrees the dial is set for then you'll know if that is the problem and can adjust your dial accordingly.

Answer 5

Thicken stews with cornflour (mix 2 teaspons with 2 teaspoons of water) and stuffing mix to meatloaf. That contains bread so should absorb some of the moisture. Make sure that the seal on the oven door is not worn this could affect the cooking.

Answer 6

because the flame is to weak, the juices all drip out of the meals. You need to use a higher setting.

Answer 7

Do you cook these items covered? That will cause condensation.

Answer 8

cookin 2 long

Answer 9

if your landlord won't replace it, try to use less liquids in your cooking, or more flour, etc. hope i helped!