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Heard a baker at the market say they never check their oven temp with a separate thermometer
They said their oven's built-in display was 'close enough'. My last batch of sourdough in December was a total brick because my oven runs 25 degrees cold. I didn't know for months. How many of you actually verify your oven heat? What's your method?
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the_pat7mo ago
My old oven was off by almost 40 degrees. I used to trust the dial until I ruined three loaves in a row. Now I keep a cheap oven thermometer in there all the time.
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margaretj407mo ago
But what if the dial is right and the thermometer is wrong? I had a cheap one that would swing 20 degrees just from the oven door opening. Maybe those ruined loaves were from bad yeast or old flour, not the oven. Sometimes we blame the tool when it's our own rushing or a bad recipe.
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