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Just realized my bread thermometer was off by 40 degrees for months
I was wondering why my sourdough kept coming out gummy even though I followed the recipe exactly. So last week I tested my probe thermometer against boiling water (212 degrees) and it read 172. That thing was off by 40 entire degrees. I bought it off Amazon for like 12 bucks two years ago and never once checked it. Has anyone else had a thermometer drift like that and ruin a bunch of bakes before you caught it?
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matthewperry19d agoMost Upvoted
River's friend might've had the oven dial off too. That's another thing people don't check often enough. A cheap oven thermometer hanging on the rack can show you the real temp inside no matter what the knob says. My old oven ran 25 degrees hot once and I was burning cookies for months before I figured it out. Put an oven thermometer in there and it told me right away. Worth the five bucks just to not keep guessing.
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