I burned dinner for 6 years because I trusted the recipe, not my oven

Last month I moved to Austin and finally got a real oven thermometer for $7 at the hardware store. My old oven was 40 degrees cooler than the dial said, so every recipe that said 350 was actually cooking at 310. I thought I was just bad at cooking, turns out I was baking cookies at the wrong temp the whole time. One probe in the rack changed everything. Has anyone else discovered their oven was quietly lying to them for years?

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johnson.ryan6d ago

Used to blame my own cooking, now it's clear the oven was the one with cold feet.