My oven thermometer was lying to me for months

I kept burning the bottoms of my sourdough loaves even though the dial said 450. Finally grabbed a cheap oven thermometer from Target and found my oven runs 50 degrees hot. Has anyone else dealt with a janky oven temp?

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karen_perry381mo ago

Feel your pain completely. I had the exact same issue with my old gas oven and it drove me crazy for months. Ended up burning so many cookies before I figured out it was running 30 degrees colder than what it said. A cheap oven thermometer totally saved my baking life, it's wild how much those factory dials can be off. Did you calibrate yours or are you just working around the temp offset now?

murray.spencer1mo ago

Of course. My old oven was off by a solid 40 degrees too, threw off every single batch of cookies for a year before I finally caught it with a thermometer.

the_john1mo ago

Wait did you actually try calibrating yours or just gave up and adjusted? My buddy spent hours with the manual trying to recalibrate his oven and it never really held the setting, kept drifting back after a few weeks. Curious if the newer ones actually let you set the offset properly or if it's just a bandaid fix for bad manufacturing.