Mastodawn

When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time?

When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? - feddit.nl

I have an oven that’s rated to reach 200 degrees C (around 400-ish in F) (I can’t put in higher temperatures on the device), but some recipes tell you to bake at higher temps than that. Does that mean that I can’t bake that item in my oven, or can I just adjust for time? Let’s say the recipe says to bake at 225 degrees C for 25 minutes, I then bake it for 35 minutes at 200?

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IWW4 Oct 20

No. Baking, unlike the cooking of say a sous chef, is a strict formula and the temperature is a big part of that formula.

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madjo

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.