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 :)
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“Cooking is art, baking is science”
With very simple recipes, e.g. white bread, you might get away with it.
The more ingredients you add, the more chance something won’t behave quite as it should.
I also know that sometimes different cooking temperatures are written if the oven is a fan-driven oven or a conventional oven. Which makes the science a bit trickier. And is part of the reason why I asked, but I’ve gotten a lot of insightful answers.
I guess there’s nothing to it but to try. If it fails, I have more data to work with :)
That’s because convection is a faster bake.