Geesh my oven is so darn weird when baking anything.

I normally don't bake breads or desserts. Yet this blows my mind.

Tonight I decided to do so and baked both crescents and cookies at the same time.

The times and temperatures were similar yet only just a bit different.

For the crescents it says 350°f for 12 to 15 minutes

For the chocolate chip cookies it says to bake at 375°f for 8 to 12 minutes for small cookies and 9 to 11 for large cookies.

So thinking to do both I used 350°f and perhaps a bit longer. As well put the cookies on the bottom shelf and the crescents on the top shelf.

As you can see the crescents turned out perfectly. Unfortunately not so for the cookies which were a total loss being mostly burnt, all but the largest. Too embarrassed to post a picture how badly the cookies were burnt. My peanut butter cookies turn out a whole lot better than these.

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Carla · 61-69, F

My oven is similar.
Ive learned that it doesnt like to cook but on one rack.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla not really certain what the problem is yet. Certain things come out just fine other things miserably.

This was perfect for muffin bread. Same level as these cookies...

https://similarworlds.com/food-drink/cook/3770899-Anyone-want-some-Star-anise-chocolate-chip-muffin

Carla · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer beatiful bread.
I think it has something to do with how the heat is distributed. How the product absorbs the heat available.
I dont know.
I just know that no matter what, even if the temp instructions are the same, the food cooks unevenly.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla I remember my father complaining about having to put bricks in his oven at home. He was a professional baker though. Not certain how he would have done that though.

Carla · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer i could get bricks in my oven.
The preheat would take longer. But it would hold a more consistent heat.
Ovens cool and kick back to reheat as the are being used.
Your dad was smart.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla well he was smart enough that Winchell's doughnuts stole some of his recipes. 😞

Carla · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer really? Ive never had winchells donut.
Where would i find them?

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla only a few stores left. I'm fairly certain the original store in San Francisco is still there. It was the flagship store when my father work there in the early 1960s. I was just a baby, possibly one at the time.

Carla · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer hmm...im on the other side of the country.
Im going to look...

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla last I heard they were apart of the Denny's corp group. That's where his retirement money came from.

Carla · 61-69, F

Dozens of stores.
Cali, Colorado, Nebraska.
A fresh donut is the only way. Delivery is out🙁

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla the no delivery would make sense. They only hire minimum wage workers.

Carla · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer ahh...14 or 15 per hour, in California.
In california.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla yeah yet you know what a "living" wage is in SoCal? It's around $90,000. You are simply not going to get that. Not even working two shifts under two different names as my father was doing.

Carla · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer
And i bet his employer thought is was just spiffy that he had someone so in need of income that they would work away with no overtime.
Ive know people to do a similar thing...working with two different job descriptions. That was a long time ago.
Fifteen an hour at eighty hours a week still leaves workers two grand short of a cali living wage...

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Carla yeah his friend a single store franchise owner was very thrilled.

I just figured it out. He couldn't work more than 40 hours, so at $15 dollars per hour and figuring 15% standard deductions and two shifts he would be making now 53,040 per year.

Your 2,000 grand difference just turned into a lot more.

Carla · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer it did.