eli5: why isn’t it possible to cook e.g. cookies at twice the temperature for half the time? obviously i know it isn’t possible, but *why*? what’s the physics behind it?

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eli5: why isn’t it possible to cook e.g. cookies at twice the temperature for half the time? obviously i know it isn’t possible, but *why*? what’s the physics behind it?

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Well, double of 300° degrees isn’t 600° degrees, but 1060° degrees. Thats because absolute zero is -460 degrees. I imagine your cookies would be vaporized in a fraction of a second at 1060 degrees.

Those are Fahrenheit. Celsius equivalents are 150° doubled is really 573°.