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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Tramort Oct 20

a lot of these answers are just plain wrong.

baking is fundamentally a chemical process, and chemical processes are heavily temperature dependent: almost always thermodynamically, but always kinetically.

and the kinetics are affected by the temperature based on the Arrhenius equation that has a temperature term in an inverted negative exponent.

you could use this equation to figure out the right time difference, if you knew the target temperature and your actual (400dC) temperature.

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Dogyote

lol, I’ll stick a toothpick in my cake before I solve for rate constants.