Article: A continuing compendium of tips and techniques for cooks from Food Network Kitchens: Temperatue tips

Baking recipes often call for room temperature ingredients, principally milk, butter and eggs. This may seem persnickety, but temperature affects how these ingredients perform. When warm, melted butter is added to cold milk, it lumps and congeals. Cold butter won't whip as well as that at room temperature. Eggs straight from the refrigerator don't mix with butter as well as those that have lost their chill. And warm eggs whites whip up quicker and lighter. No time to wait for ingredients to get to the room temperature? Don't despair.

Take the chill off eggs by submerging them in a bowl of warm water for a couple minutes. Warm cold milk in a glass measuring cup for 20 seconds or so in the ...

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