Shoutout to the Great British Bake Off contestant who said her oven ran 15 degrees hot
I was rewatching an old season and a baker named Val mentioned her home oven ran about 15 degrees hotter than the dial said, so she always set it lower than the recipe. I grabbed a $6 oven thermometer for my own kitchen in Boise and turns out mine runs 25 degrees hot, which explains why my cookies kept burning on the bottom. I have been baking for 4 years and just now figured this out. Does anyone else have an oven that lies to them, and how do you adjust your recipes for it?