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dormouse1953) wrote2014-06-11 06:50 pm
dormouse1953) wrote2014-06-11 06:50 pm
I can't believe I've just done that!
I had a sudden urge this week to bake a cake, a recipe I've done many times over the last 30 years. Got all the ingredients this morning and prepared them after lunch. The cake required a 1.75 hour cooking time so I went off to do other things.
Went back into the kitchen just now. 20 minutes to go. Then I noticed that I hadn't fully shut the oven door, and thought maybe the cake wouldn't have been fully cooked. Then I thought that the kitchen would be a bit hotter if the oven had been on for nearly two hours with the door open. Opening the door fully I realised the cake tin was still quite cool and my immediate thought was I'd burnt out the oven or something. Then I realised what I'd done.
I'd switched on the top oven and put the cake in the bottom oven! Another two hours before it's cooked (allowing for the oven to heat up first).
Aargh!
Went back into the kitchen just now. 20 minutes to go. Then I noticed that I hadn't fully shut the oven door, and thought maybe the cake wouldn't have been fully cooked. Then I thought that the kitchen would be a bit hotter if the oven had been on for nearly two hours with the door open. Opening the door fully I realised the cake tin was still quite cool and my immediate thought was I'd burnt out the oven or something. Then I realised what I'd done.
I'd switched on the top oven and put the cake in the bottom oven! Another two hours before it's cooked (allowing for the oven to heat up first).
Aargh!