I am a typical stay at home mom. I make breakfast, lunch and dinner and use the oven frequently. I have in my life probably baked over 1000 batches of cookies. I have never had a problem baking anything until I got to use your "Oven".
When I first moved into the home that has your "oven" I was quite in awe of it. I even posted its picture in a blog. http://just-what-am-i-thinking.blogspot.com/2008/08/random-things.html (it is the first picture in the slide show). It looked big, it looked fancy, it looked like an oven. But it is not!
It is a food destroyer. Today, I attempted to make cookies again (my past bad experiences aside, I had to find someway of using the 2 bowl fulls of chocolate chips that Madelyn and Adam had poured themselves while my visiting teachers were at my house, and I knew if I just took them away they would scream and cry, so being the good mom I try to be, I threw together a quick batch of cookie dough and had the 2 of them pour in the chocolate chips -- it worked fabulously -- they were so excited to have cookies they hardly noticed that I had taken the chocolate chips from them!)
I had preheated the oven to 350, put the cookie sheets in and set the timer for 8 minutes (usually it takes 12 in any other oven, but here I thought I would set it for 8 and then check on them) About 6 1/2 minutes later, I could smell them -- which usually means they are done. I ran in, opened the oven and the back half of the top cookie sheet was burned, the front half was perfect and the bottom cookie sheet was raw.
I pulled out the top cookie sheet, threw away the burned ones, removed the 8 good ones and opened the oven again to check on the bottom sheet (mind you , the timer still has not gone off) to find all 18 on it burned.
8 good cookies -- really???? I mean what kind of oven can do that? Is this a biggest loser kind of oven that is trying to keep me from overindulging??? It was like the oven was on 450 degrees. And then I looked and it was on 450 degrees.
So that is why I am writing. Who puts the knobs for an oven 6 inches off the ground, where all the little kids can reach it???? This in and of itself is a recipe for burned or undercooked food. I don't know if Madelyn or Adam did it (although I am pretty sure it was Adam) -- but they should not be allowed to reach it! I mean who designed this oven????? I want answers. They obviously never had a focus group that included kids. They obviously never asked a mother about it and so I want compensation. I am short 26 oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Please send some to me. 8 is not enough despite the title of a television show from my youth. 8 is not enough (unless you are talking babies, but that is irrelevant to this cookie catastrophe).
And while I have taken the time to write this letter, I have a few more suggestions for your "oven".
- Add windows
- Put the controls up high
- Make the controls digital
- Have a timer
- Have a delay start
- Have a temperature probe that plugs in to tell me how close the chicken is to being done
- Quiet the convection fan (it sounds like a 747 taking off)
In short, look like this.
http://just-what-am-i-thinking.blogspot.com/2007/04/tale-of-two-ovens.html
Oh, my Katy, TX oven. I miss you. We didn't always get dinner right, but you never let me down on cookies.
Sincerely,
Jamie Handy
2 comments:
Jamie,
that was a hilarious post! I'm so sorry about your oven. Have you considered cooking over open flame in your fireplace? It might be less frustrating.
Ahh, you had me laughing hard :-)! I hope your future cookie experiments produce more than 8!
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