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So let me get this straight: - The chefs on said youtube channel complain about the temperature being non-consistent on their ovens. - Your wife also ran into

by wrdqex 8y ago

So let me get this straight: - The chefs on said youtube channel complain about the temperature being non-consistent on their ovens. - Your wife also ran into this problem with her oven. - Your wife was able to cook using a pizza oven, which did NOT display this problem. - Therefore, the chefs from the channel are bad chefs, worse than your wife. I have not watched this youtube channel and cannot comment on the skill of the chefs, but your comment's conclusion does not logically follow.

cr0sh 8y ago
I perhaps wasn't as clear as I wanted to be. The point I was trying to make was to use the tools you have at your disposal. My wife had access to a "flaky oven" (half the time it wouldn't turn on) - or she could use an oven that worked properly, albeit at a very high temperature that for many people, would burn the heck out of anything you put in it. In the case of the youtube channel - which I don't know about anything either - maybe, if the ovens didn't hold a proper temperature, they should have just cranked it to max temperature, not worried about what the temperature actually was - and just cooked with that? It would of course depend on what was being cooked; there's a world of difference between say, roasting some potatoes at high temperature, and baking a souffle or something delicate like that. You probably couldn't do the latter in a high temperature oven properly. But ultimately, most cooking is essentially controlled burning. If you can do that, you can cook many things. Not everything, but enough. Actual baking on the other hand - a lot of it involves accuracy and chemistry, and if you don't have control over the whole process, then the recipe will fail every time. If that were the case with that youtube channel (quite likely), then doing any kind of a "hack" with an oven probably won't work out well.

by wrdqex 8y ago

cr0sh 8y ago

I perhaps wasn't as clear as I wanted to be. The point I was trying to make was to use the tools you have at your disposal. My wife had access to a "flaky oven" (half the time it wouldn't turn on) - or she could use an oven that worked properly, albeit at a very high temperature that for many people, would burn the heck out of anything you put in it. In the case of the youtube channel - which I don't know about anything either - maybe, if the ovens didn't hold a proper temperature, they should have just cranked it to max temperature, not worried about what the temperature actually was - and just cooked with that? It would of course depend on what was being cooked; there's a world of difference between say, roasting some potatoes at high temperature, and baking a souffle or something delicate like that. You probably couldn't do the latter in a high temperature oven properly. But ultimately, most cooking is essentially controlled burning. If you can do that, you can cook many things. Not everything, but enough. Actual baking on the other hand - a lot of it involves accuracy and chemistry, and if you don't have control over the whole process, then the recipe will fail every time. If that were the case with that youtube channel (quite likely), then doing any kind of a "hack" with an oven probably won't work out well.