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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Think of it in an extreme.
If you want to make Mac and Cheese, you’ll boil water for a few minutes, put in the pasta, let it boil for several minutes and you’re done, at like 350-400 degrees.
It heats the noodles and it slowly is absorbed into pasta…too short and it’ll be too stiff, too long and they’ll get soggy.
You could instead heat the water at 4000 degrees for like 30 seconds… but not it’s furiously boiling and turned to steam, and the macaroni will not heat up and absorb water, it’ll burn to a dry crisp.
The interaction between the ingedients and the reactions to different temperatures is what makes it happen.
Can do same with chocolate chip cookies, if you just heat it to 1000 degrees, the chocolate doesn’t nicely melt, it would caramalize and harden.
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