Plus most ovens don’t hold a single temp, but vary between two points attempting to average the set point.
Convection ovens improve the stability of the average temp throughout the oven.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
No. Baking, unlike the cooking of say a sous chef, is a strict formula and the temperature is a big part of that formula.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Absolutely and many ovens have hot spots within them. Like all tools one must learn how their oven functions.
madjo@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Thanks for this answer, I’ll have to measure the actual temperature inside the oven, see how hot it can run. Maybe it does reach 225 (440) but it only reports 200.
Acamon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
While it’s absolutely true that baking is a strict formula, I don’t agree that not reaching a given temperature means it’s necessarily doomed. It might achieve a somewhat different outcome, but for a whole bunch of baked goods a lower or higher temperature with adjusted time will produce something perfectly acceptable.
As you say, most people have no idea what temperature their oven actually produces, or fail to adjust for the strength of fan assist or placement in the oven. Sometimes this leads to frustration and failure, but many delicious cookies have been baked with imprecission.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
But only an experienced baker will know this, and off-hand I can’t think of anything where I could trade off time for temp