Cooking sentences, please help correct my errors :)

Question

¿Cuanto levadura usaste en la mezcla? - How much raising agent did you use?

¿Cuánto tiempo dura el biscocho enel horno? - How long does the cake take in the oven?

¿Cuántos huevos echaste? - How many eggs did you add?

¿Echo la harina ya? - Will I add the flour now?

¿Es el horno bastante caliente ahora? - is the oven hot enough now?

¿Hay que precalentar el horno? - Does the oven have to be preheated?

¿Cuántos grados hace falta el horno para cocinar el pastel? - How many degrees does the oven need to cook the cake?

¿Cuán caliente el horno debe estar? - how hot does the oven have to be?

¿Por qué se echa la leche antes de los huevos? - Why is the milk added before the eggs?

Cuán ? Good one. I see it so seldom. - pesta, Mar 11, 2011

Cuán new for me! - pacofinkler, Mar 11, 2011

Answer 1

-¿Cuánta levadura usaste en la mezcla?-

-¿Cuánto tiempo dura el biscocho en el horno?- (a typo perhaps)

-¿Ya está bastante caliente el horno?-

¿Cuántos grados hace falta el horno para cocinar el pastel? - How many degrees does the oven need to cook the cake?

"Hace falta" doesn't have a subject, but you have one in your sentence, el horno, so this idiomatic expression doesn't fit here. Use necesita instead.

Edit 2/13: I made a mistake here. Hacer falta does have a subject, it is whatever it is that is needed or lacking. Sorry for that. But it is still true that hacer falta doesn't apply here.

-¿Cuán caliente debe estar el horno?-

I would say: ¿Cuántos grados necesita el horno para cocinar el pastel ? - Agora, Mar 11, 2011

That's the same suggestion I gave, Agora. :) - Deanski, Mar 11, 2011

I wrote the phrase only because you did not. - Agora, Mar 11, 2011