If you're like many, you probably use your oven for a range of cooking and baking recipes. These may include birthday cakes, beef or pork roasts, barbecue chicken, your grandma's famous baked macaroni ...

Using this compartment the wrong way could lead to a kitchen disaster. Ovens can vary quite a bit from home to home. You can have a gas oven, an electric oven, a convection oven, a double oven—the ...