Making CROUTONS without burning--so easy

Does it matter where in the oven I put the cubes? -Jen

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Put prepared cubes on baking sheet, turn OFF oven, and put in baking sheet. Check in 20 minutes.

Half the people you know are below average. -Steven Wright

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FIRST--set oven to 350 degrees

THEN prepare bread cubes, you know how--olve oil, garlic, parsley/coriander. Toss.

THEN--and this is the guaranteed secret: Put prepared cubes on baking sheet, turn OFF oven, and
put in baking sheet. Check in 20 minutes. They should be perfect. Do not EVER have cubes in the
oven while heat is on. You may get away with it once, but over the years you will save many ruined
bread cubes, melba toasts, crisped crackers, etc.

Nancree

The oven can be on while you make them, but it shouldn't be at 350 - too high for drying out and
lightly browning cubes of bread. I always do my cubes in the oven - at about 275 or so - and just
check on them periodically (about every 7 minutes or so) - I like them completely dry, inside and
out, and when they turn golden brown, they are perfect.

N.

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[email hidden] (Nancree) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

FIRST--set oven to 350 degrees

THEN prepare bread cubes, you know how--olve oil, garlic, parsley/coriander. Toss.

THEN--and this is the guaranteed secret: Put prepared cubes on baking sheet, turn OFF oven, and
put in baking sheet. Check in 20 minutes. They should be perfect. Do not EVER have cubes in the
oven while heat is on. You may get away with it once, but over the years you will save many
ruined bread cubes, melba toasts, crisped crackers, etc.

Nancree

The oven can be on while you make them, but it shouldn't be at 350 - too high for drying out and
lightly browning cubes of bread. I always do my cubes in the oven - at about 275 or so - and just
check on them periodically (about every 7 minutes or so) - I like them completely dry, inside and
out, and when they turn golden brown, they are perfect.

N.

any crutons or bread that I want to convert into bread crumbs resides on my spare broiler pan.
After I use the oven for anything I put the broiler into the oven, this gets me my crutons or
crumbs with a good feeling because I used the excess heat from cooking to make something for almost
free. Sure if O'm making crumbs the broiler might need more than one trip into the still warm oven
but such is life.

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Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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FIELDS, W. C.

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Does it matter where in the oven I put the cubes? -Jen

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No, not really. I have my oven rack in the center. Nancree