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* In the ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' episode "A Hobby For Bea", Bea and Crumbs are trying to bake a giant cookie and Bea gets the idea to double the temperature to reduce the baking time. This results in the cookie being burnt on the surface and too hard to eat.

This trope is also a type of {{Logical Fallac|ies}}y. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not (directly) related]] to FridgeLogic. The more extreme cases will require our chef to use TimTaylorTechnology. See also {{Mismeasurement}}, contrast InstantRoast.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", the Gaang and a group of hippies find themselves trapped in a tunnel labyrinth. It's been established that the torches they have will last two hours each. Then one of the hippie girls lights five of them saying they are now good for 10 hours.

--> Kevin, I don't mean to be cruel, but this sounds like something [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling your brother]] would do.\\
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Pity we don't have a kiln; we could have eaten yesterday.\\
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Instead of Lobster Thermidor we will be having lobster jerky.

HilarityEnsues. A subset of the horrible cooking skills of a LethalChef. This has probably been TruthInTelevision for some of us at one point in [[RealLife our lives]]. Also, notice that some processes ''do'' behave according to Oven Logic; milk pasteurization, for example, can be done in 5 minutes at 70°C, or in less than 3 seconds at 150°C -- though again, the reduction in time is disproportionate to the increase in temperature (and doing it faster changes the taste by caramelizing the milk sugar).

* LethalChef Akane Tendō in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has forgotten the boiled eggs, so she thinks she can have them up in "a jiffy" by popping the entire carton of eggs into the microwave. It [[HilarityEnsues explodes spectacularly]].
* In Episode 29 of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', Meiling Li does this, hoping to have a cake done before Syaoran comes home from school (she wants to show him that she can make a cake for their school's Home-Ec class). [[HilarityEnsues Needless to say...]]

* In the 1997 theatrical movie of ''Film/{{Bean}}'', the two main characters attempt to pull off this trope when a pair of important guests drop by, both of them having completely forgotten about the appointment. Strapped for time and without having anything else to serve up, they decide to prepare a turkey dinner (which the non-{{Cloudcuckoolander}} of them notes would take about 5 hours to prepare) by ''stuffing it into the microwave and trying to do the job in about 15 minutes''. The result [[HilarityEnsues is predictable]].

* On an episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'', Laura and Steve were partnered together in a home-ec class, and she tried to speed-bake a cake by doubling the heat. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]].

%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had an episode dedicated to the girls running a restaurant and they ended up applying this logic to a cake. HilarityEnsues.

** The same joke was also used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'', except this time he set the oven to "only" 5 million degrees and he ends up flooding the living room waist deep in popcorn.

* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', Cookie is watching a cooking-show on television, sizing up the cake-recipe for camp consumption along the way - that is, multiplying every ingredient by 100. At the end, however, the baking-instructions arrive, and in the final panel, Cookie is seen sitting in front of an oven (with black smoke pouring out of it), declaring "It'll be ready next week."

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* In the ''[=AstroLOLogy=]'' short "Aries Whips Up a Disaster", Aries attends a baking class, but lacks the patience to make his dish properly. When the time comes to bake the class's bowls, Taurus sets them all to bake for 20 minutes, but Aries sets his bowl to the highest temperature for 30 seconds, causing it to catch fire and [[StuffBlowingUp explode]].
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-->'''Zuko:''' I can do that.

-->-- '''Stacy'''[[note]][[GeniusBonus The surface of the Sun is 9,900 degrees Fahrenheit, by the way]].[[/note]], ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Moon Farm"

* If you increase the power output of a microwave, it will take less time to cook something, based on the principle of how they work. However, you only need to worry about this if you're using a commercial microwave (in convenience stores), which are way more powerful than home microwaves; and if used improperly invariably under or over cook one's food. There are also some microwaves that are lower-power than standard home microwaves; these are typically the small ones you see sitting on top of a mini-fridge in a college dorm room. Many frozen foods will list a second, longer cooking time to use in these low-power microwaves.
* Rice is best cooked with a ratio of water to rice 1:1, with an additional half cup of water for evaporation loss. So one cup of rice should be cooked with one-and-a-half cups, two cups two-and-a-half, and so on. Seeing just one cup:one-and-a-half cups without understanding why may naturally lead to the conclusion that four cups of rice is to be made with six cups of water, which results in congee instead of rice.

* The show ''Series/MANswers'', a show designed to answer "manly" questions, posed the question "What else [besides an automobile] could you put a HEMI engine into?" Their number 1 answer: a "HEMI grill", which could cook 240 hot dogs in 3 minutes. Whether or not this invokes Oven Logic depends on whether the engine is there to increase the grill temperature or speed up airflow.

-->'''Postnote''':"In the end no body got a cookie."\

* in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", the Gaang and a group of hippies find themselves trapped in a tunnel labyrinth. It's been established that the torches they have will last two hours each. Then one of the hippie girls lights five of them saying they are now good for 10 hours.

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after having received at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50000 volts. Channel Nine News reported this as being the equivalent of "over a million volts altogether". Voltage doesn't work that way (not to mention that both voltage AND current must be high to kill). To use an imperfect analogy, you can take 3 mg a day of a medication for a month and be fine, but taking 100 mg of the same medication at once will probably kill you. Similarly, each "dose" of voltage is a separate incident and isn't the same as suffering a million volts at once, even if they happen right after each other.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' featured the girls in this dilemma, the results looking like a nuclear meltdown had occurred.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "Puffylicious", Kaz supposedly opens up a new restaurant called Puffylicious which both Ami and Yumi will run but is later found out to have been a prank by Kaz for all the times the girls got him with pranks. Kaz comes dressed up and pretending to be a critic and the girls must find something to cook in order to get a good review for the "restaurant." The girls keep trying to cook different things from a recipe book and one recipe had a baking time of 18 minutes at 200 degrees but because they were strapped for time, Yumi suggests to bake it for 2 minutes at 1800 degrees in which she tries that and the oven melts as a result.
-->'''Ami:''' "Bake it in the oven for 18 minutes at 200 degrees." '''Yumi:''' "Or we can bake it for 2 minutes at 1800 degrees." ''(This causes the oven to melt and the dish to be ruined).''
* In the ''{{Toys/Lalaloopsy}}'' episode "A Hobby For Bea", Bea and Crumbs are trying to bake a giant cookie and Bea gets the idea to double the temperature to reduce the baking time. This results in the cookie being burnt on the surface and too hard to eat.

-->'''Candace:''' Lamb cobbler! And it's beautiful!
-->'''Stacy:''' [[LampshadeHanging How could that be? We didn't even put lamb in it!]]

** Lampshaded to such an extreme that a literal lamp was involved in the episode "Moon Farm". When Ferb relates a recipe for "Lamb Cobbler" to Candace and Stacy through Phineas and Irving [[ItMakesSenseInContext from the moon]], the only part that correctly gets through the traditional telephone-game messups (e.g. "One pound of ''lamp''") is the cooking time, 350 for 1 hour. With only five minutes to spare, Stacy declares "It's simple math!" and proceeds to cook it at 9,000 degrees[[note]]Which is ''slightly'' more accurate than most examples, as that's approximately twelve times the ''absolute'' temperature of 350 F[[/note]]. [[SubvertedTrope It comes out perfectly]], leading Stacy to wonder "How can that be? We didn't even put lamb in it!"

* Satoshi in ''Anime/MichikoToHatchin'' applies Oven Logic to medication. He takes double the amount of pills recommended dose for adults, figuring it would double effectiveness.

HilarityEnsues. A subset of the horrible cooking skills of a LethalChef. This has probably been TruthInTelevision for some of us at one point in [[RealLife our lives]]. Also, notice that some processes ''do'' behave according to Oven Logic; milk pasteurization, for example, can be done in 5 minutes at 70°C, or in less than 3 seconds at 150°C -- though again, the reduction in time is disproportionate to the increase in temperature (and doing it faster kills the taste by caramelizing the milk sugar).

%%** The same joke was also used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''.

* Players who start playing MMORPGS for the first time sometimes make the mistake of thinking that say, 3 level 10 players are as powerful as a level 30 npc. This is hardly ever the case, as the amount of power gained per level is rarely linear like that, and many games make it [[UnwinnableByDesign straight up impossible]] to even hit/damage a target more than a certain number of levels higher, let alone actually kill one.

* ''WebSite/SFDebris'' sums it up in his review of the ''Voyager'' episode, "Flashback". "What kind of cook thinks that increased heat equals less cooking time? A bad one!"

* In ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumPrincessessCantCook Princesses Can't Cook]]'', Luna decides that she should speed up the process of making ice cream (as the device for doing so ''properly'' is not sized for alicorns) with a bit of magic. Lightning, to be specific. The resultant baked, and somehow ''fried'', ice cream, winds up coating the kitchen, and the Sisters are forevermore banished, though the current sous chef does note that the disaster gives her an idea...

* UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson was fond of saying that, according to his calculations, putting a pizza on a window sill on UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} would cook it in nine seconds. He was then corrected by a fan, who noted that he forgot to take into account certain things, and noted that the pizza would be cooked instantly. [[DeathWorld And then be vaporized. As would the window sill. And the building the window sill was attached to]].

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' once decided that making twenty individual pancakes was too much work, so he just poured in all the batter, so as to make one big pancake and then cut it in half[[labelnote:*]]Note that an oversized pancake ''can'' be successfully cooked, to a certain degree, but you're [[GonnaNeedMoreX gonna need a bigger griddle]] than you would use for twenty individual pancakes, and after a certain point you'll have a hell of a time trying to flip it.[[/labelnote]] It should also be noted that when he added the eggs, he didn't bother removing them from their shells.

** Lampshaded to such an extreme that a literal lamp was involved in the episode "Moon Farm". When Ferb relates a recipe for "Lamb Cobbler" to Candace and Stacy through Phineas and Irving [[ItMakesSenseInContext from the moon]], the only part that correctly gets through the traditional telephone-game messups (e.g. "One pound of ''lamp''") is the cooking time, 350 for 1 hour. With only five minutes to spare, Stacy declares "It's simple math!" and proceeds to cook it at 9,000 degrees[[labelnote:*]]Which is ''slightly'' more accurate than most examples, as that's approximately twelve times the ''absolute'' temperature of 350 F[[/labelnote]]. [[SubvertedTrope It comes out perfectly]], leading Stacy to wonder "How can that be? We didn't even put lamb in it!"

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* Inverted to the high heavens and back by the logician on ''The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.'' He begins his analysis of the film's witch-burning scene by calling bullshit on the idea that since Sir Bedevere says "all wood burns" the conclusion is that all that burns is wood. The logician's argument starts getting IceCreamKoan territory before long:
-->Given the premise "all fish live underwater" and "all mackerel are fish," my wife will conclude not that all mackerel live underwater" but that if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her anymore. This she calls using her intuition. I call it crap and it gets e very irritated because it is not logical.
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* ''ComicBook/LaffALympics'': Huck decides to turn the heat higher to cook faster. No numbers are mentioned.