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?

*edit* Thank you all for the answers, I’m going to try your suggestions and see if the recipe will allow for such an adjustment, and if not, I’ll see if I can replace my crappy oven with a better one :)

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 个月前

    I would say for 3 out of 5 recipes extending the time will probably work but you’ll need to eyeball and needle/poke it. But if the recipe relies on the baked good to form a crust at this higher temperature, the result will probably not be as good. That’s more crucial with bread. Test it before you invite people over.

    • Doxin@pawb.social
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      2 个月前

      Longer at a lower temperature gets you a thicker crust. Shorter at a higher temperature will get you a thinner crust. Generally speaking.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    2 个月前

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

    Typically when you alter the temperature of baking things turn out really bad.

    What you will find is that the temperature varies with ovens. Some ovens run really hot and some run really cold.

    So if the recipe calls for 350, your oven may say it is at 350 when it is really at 375 or 325. You then have to find the sweet spot for your oven.

    But if you the recipe calls for 350 and your oven can’t get to 350, the dish is doomed.

  • Tramort@programming.dev
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    2 个月前

    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.