Following Recipes

I know, I know.  It's pretty easy to read a recipe.  But this tip will save you a TON of time.  Please, please read the whole entire recipe before you start.  There could be some important information in the recipe that is not advertised at the top.  How about this: imagine that you start a recipe for a delicious gourmet cake.  You make the whole cake, then you realize that you have to preheat the oven.  It didn't say anything about it until the very end of the recipe.  Now you have to wait while the oven preheats and it takes soooo long and your poor cake...  And what if you are baking the cake for someone and then you are running late because you had to wait for the oven to preheat?  Tragic.  Please