I finally realized my oven runs 25 degrees hot because of a $6 thermometer from Ace

Jana Shah · 2026-10-17T07:35:04.863155+00:00

For two years I blamed every dry cake and burnt cookie on my recipes, then my sister in Fresno stuck a cheap oven thermometer in and it read 375 when I had it set to 350. Turns out I'd been dropping my bake temp by 25 degrees for months and my cookies were still coming out flat because the real problem was I kept opening the door to peek. How do you all figure out your oven's weird quirks without buying one of those fancy thermometers?

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