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Pro tip: check your oven temp with a $6 thermometer before you blame the recipe
I spent 3 months convinced I was a bad baker because every single cake came out with a burnt edge and a gooey middle, so I bought new pans, switched flours twice, and tried 5 different recipes. Turns out my oven runs 40 degrees hot, which I found out in 2 minutes with a cheap thermometer from the grocery store, and now my bakes come out fine every time. How many of you have blamed a recipe when it was really your oven lying to you?
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sarah_hart7d ago
The part about your oven running 40 degrees hot is wild but here's a thing nobody talks about: it's not always the temp that's off, it's where the heat comes from. My old oven had a broken bottom element so all the heat blasted from the top, which meant my cakes got a rock hard crust on top while the middle stayed soup. I spent months dropping the temp lower and lower thinking that would fix it, but all that did was make the gooey middle worse. A thermometer would have told me the number was fine and sent me looking at the real problem. Sometimes the lie isn't the temp, it's the direction.
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