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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It’s similar to how you can’t eat all your veggies for the month in one sitting. You need time for it to clear your stomach and absorb into your body.
Similarly, the goal is not to dump all the heat energy into a cookie as quickly as possible, it’s to distribute heat in a certain way that leaves the right consistency in different parts – a little crisp on the outside, chewy or crispy on the inside (and the flour cooked throughout!) It takes a certain pace of heat delivery for all the parts to reach this at the right time.
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