Shoutout to the lady at the church potluck who told me my oven was the problem, not my recipe

Dylan Kim · 2026-10-05T07:00:03.444806+00:00

I burned 4 batches of chocolate chip cookies in 2 weeks and could not figure out why. Every single tray came out with black bottoms and raw middles, and I was ready to blame the recipe I got from my grandma. This nice older lady at our potluck in Fresno asked what temp I was baking at and I said 375 like the recipe says. She told me to buy a $6 oven thermometer and check it, and turns out my oven runs 45 degrees hot, so I was actually baking at 420 the whole time. Has anyone else found out their oven has been lying to them this entire time?

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