Pro tip: your oven rack might be in the wrong spot (mine was for a year).

My cakes kept getting dark tops and gooey middles until my neighbor in apartment 3B asked if I ever checked the manual. Has anyone else had a simple fix like that?

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lane.kim5mo ago

Honestly the rack position thing is a game changer, but also check if your oven runs hot with a cheap thermometer.

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kim.stella4mo ago

Oh yeah @lane.kim the thermometer thing is no joke. I spent a week wondering why my bread came out like hockey pucks. Turns out my oven runs 35 degrees hot, so I was basically baking everything at a slightly different temperature than I thought. Now I keep a cheap probe in there and just subtract 35 from whatever the dial says. My cookies thank me, even if my pride doesn't.

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reese_chen5mo ago

Actually the rack position is super important but the thermometer tip is even bigger. Most home ovens are way off, like 25-50 degrees hot or cold. Found that out the hard way with a batch of ruined cookies lol.

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