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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Chemical compounds have a non-linear response to temperature. Things that are stable for very long periods of time at one temperature will decompose very quickly at higher temperatures. For example, the flash point or smoke point of cooking oils. You can heat the hell out of them, well under that point, for quite a while and not much will happen, but if you go over it they will decompose and give off smoke and maybe even catch fire. If you tried to blast cookies at a really high temperature the dough would just burn to carbon.
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