Only my first batch turned out too gooey to send to school (darn
high altitude cooking!)
Does anyone have any ideas about tweaks to this recipe for
high altitude cooking?
Not exact matches
They live in 4,000 ft
altitude, and I had to
cook the potatoes and squash in the microwave for a few minutes before adding the broth, etc (15 minutes + in the pan didn't do the trick in the
high altitude).
Cook for about 2 minutes on each side (more like 3 - 4 if you are at
high altitude like myself).
For items that are going to be in the oven longer than cookies, like muffins or cakes, I also add a little moisture (maybe an extra 2 Tbsp per cup), to counteract the drying effect of the extra time things have to spend in the oven to finish
cooking at
high altitude (lower boiling point, and all that).
Do you know how you would adjust the
cooking temp or time for
high altitude??
Have a look at my
High Altitude GF
Cooking Tips.
For
high altitude muffins — takes longer to
cook — 25 - 30 minutes depending if you have a shiny metal (30 min) or non-stick or dark metal pan (25 min)
-- because I was
cooking these at
high altitude where ingredients can act differently, it's hard to know if my impression of them — tasty, wonderful, but may not trump my favorite — was a fair one.
(This recipe variation was tested in an electric pressure
cooker at
high altitude.
Cooked for the recommended time but on the convection setting (I find for these dense quick breads this works better for me at
higher altitude.)
I live in Colorado
High altitude so I do nt know if it makes a difference but I turned the oven temp to 350 that seemed to be the only way to get it to
cook.
With less air pressure weighing them down, leavening agents tend to work too quickly at
higher altitudes, so by the time the food is
cooked, most of the gasses have escaped, producing your flat tire.
2) Baked items take longer to
cook at
altitude, so they often need to be
cooked higher up in the oven so the edges don't burn while the center finishes
cooking.
Hi Nicole, yes, baking in
high altitude is different and you may need to adjust the
cooking time.
You may have noticed special
high -
altitude cooking instructions on certain recipes and this is partially why.
This is also why it takes longer to
cook food at
higher altitude.
I live at
high altitude and used a pressure
cooker to
cook brown rice 4 dry cups at a time so I have food ready in the fridge throughout the week for my family to make life easier and the thought of soaking the rice overnight and boiling it in 1 1/2 gallons of water then draining it (who knows what is lost in the drained water) is unappealing to me.