History Main / OvenLogic

That's not even counting the effect on chemical kinetics, which will greatly increase the rate of reactions such as oxidation (burning) at high temperatures. (The general rule of thumb is that every 10°C increase around room temperature roughly doubles the rate.)

%%* The 1987 TV special ''Blondie and Dagwood'', based on the [[ComicStrip/{{Blondie}} comic strip]], had Dagwood attempt this.

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after receiving at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 volts. Channel Nine News described this as "over a million volts altogether", but voltage doesn't work like that. Think of it this way: jumping from a height of 1 meter 100 times isn't as dangerous as jumping from a height of 100 meters once. 20 50,000 volt shocks is dangerous (especially if given in quick succession) but not for the same reason a single million volt shock would be.

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after receiving at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 volts. Channel Nine News described this as "over a million volts altogether", but voltage doesn't work like that. Think of it this way: falling into a stretch of water that's 1 meter deep 10 times isn't the same as falling into 10 meters of water. 20 50,000 volt shocks is dangerous (especially if given in quick succession) but not for the same reason a single million volt shock would be.

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after receiving at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 volts. Channel Nine News described this as "over a million volts altogether", but voltage doesn't work like that. Think of it this way: 3 mg of medicine every day for a month adds up to over 90 mg, but that doesn't mean it's like actually taking 90 mg of medicine, even if taking that much all at once would be deadly. 20 50,000 volt shocks is dangerous (especially if given in quick succession) but not for the same reason a single million volt shock would be.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode in which Madame Foster's cookie recipe becomes a worldwide attraction, Bloo is left to make cookies all by himself. He uses this logic to bake a batch, causing the roof of the house to explode.

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield Thanksgiving]]'' special has Jon do this with the turkey -- 350 degrees for five and a half hours becomes 500 degrees when he only has three hours: "Hmm. Guess I'll have to speed things up a bit. ''(twist twist)'' 500 degrees! That was easy." What's interesting is that this will actually work, if it's done correctly, although it's a little more complicated than simply putting the turkey in the oven and cranking the heat up. It's known as "two-hour turkey," and the technique is detailed [[https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/main-course/turkey/2-hour-turkey-really-3.html here]]. (It will not work with a turkey that's ''still frozen'', as Jon's was.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuJD1-1e-i4 The Man's Kitchen]] in one show of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' had an [[TimTaylorTechnology over-the-top microwave]] (or as they called it, a "macrowave") that worked on this principle. It emits so much radiation that you cannot operate it without wearing ''lead vests.''

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after receiving at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 volts. Channel Nine News described this as "over a million volts altogether", but voltage doesn't work like that. Think of it this way: 3 mg of medicine every day for a month adds up to over 90 mg, but that doesn't mean it's like actually taking 90 mg of medicine, even if taking that much all at once would be deadly. 20 50,000 volt shocks is dangerous (especially if given in quick succession) but not for the same reason a million volts would be.

-->'''Postnote''':"In the end nobody got a cookie."

-->'''Toph:''' If we need to cook it at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, then it should only take a minute at 5250 degrees.
-->'''Zuko:''' [[PlayingWithFire I can do that.]]
-->...
-->'''Katara:''' I said "WATCH THE FOOD FOR A MOMENT" How did this HAPPEN?
-->'''Toph:''' We've never stepped in a kitchen and have only one eye between us. So if you think about it...whatever happened here, and it's best if we don't get into specifics...is [[NeverMyFault kinda your fault]]?

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after receiving at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 volts. Channel Nine News described this as "over a million volts altogether", but voltage doesn't work like that. Think of it this way: 3 mg of medicine every day for a month adds up to over 90 mg, but that doesn't mean it's like actually taking 90 mg of medicine, even if taking that much all at once would be deadly. Repeated shocks in quick succession can be bad, but not for the same reason a million volts would be.

* In his popular math book ''TheJoyOfX'', Steven Strogatz presents the following problem: A bath has two taps, one fast and one slow. The fast tap takes half-an-hour to fill it, and the slow tap takes one hour. If both taps are turned on at the same time, how long will it take to fill the bath? He notes that most people (including him, when he first heard it) immediately think "45 minutes". But that answer is wrong. In fact, if you think about it, it doesn't even make sense. If the fast tap just by itself can fill the bath in half-an-hour, turning the slow tap on at the same time obviously isn't going to make it take longer! There are a few ways to arrive at the correct solution. Here's one: [[spoiler: express the rate of each tap in terms of "bathtubs per hour". The slow tap obviously fills 1 bathtub-per-hour, while the fast tap, being twice as fast, fills 2. So in one hour, they will together fill 3 bathtubs' worth. So to fill just 1 bathtub, they will take a third of an hour, which is 20 minutes.]]

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after having received at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 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. Repeated shocks can be very bad (as evidenced), but not for the same reasons a million volts would be bad.

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after having received at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 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.

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield Thanksgiving]]'' special has Jon do this with the turkey -- 350 degrees for five and a half hours becomes 500 degrees when he only has three hours: "Hmm. Guess I'll have to speed things up a bit. ''(twist twist)'' 500 degrees! That was easy." What's interesting is that this will actually work, if it's done correctly, although it's a little more complicated than simply putting the turkey in the oven and cranking the heat up. It's known as "two-hour turkey," and the technique is detailed [[http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Two-Hour-Turkey-and-Gravy-104130 here]]. (It will not work with a turkey that's ''still frozen'', as Jon's was.)

* ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'': "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/How_Farg_is_Heaven%3F How Farg is Heaven?]]" has Randall Fargus showing off his newest invention he calls "Microwave-ception", where he microwaves a bag of popcorn inside of a small microwave and has that microwave inside of another microwave and that microwave is inside of another microwave, etc. until the thing is inside of five different microwaves. Mr. Fargus explains how this is going to help the microwaving process of popcorn go by all the more quicker. Mr. Fargus turns on the Microwave-ception and, unsurprisingly, this causes a nuclear explosion, which launches him across the room and slams him into a wall. While this is at first PlayedForLaughs as they laugh at Mr. Fargus' classic mishap, it's then PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:Mr. Fargus reveals he got colon cancer from the experiment and ends up dying from it.]]

* Forensic scientists are taught to use "Degree hours" when calculating how long a body had been dead, because many of the methods they use to judge this, rigor, decomposition, the speed of development of insect larvae, are temperature dependent. This is ''basically'' oven logic, but it works because A, despite what ''Series/{{CSI}}'' teaches everyone, the vast majority of bodies are not frozen by super-intelligent serial killers trying to trick the investigators, nor dumped in Turkish baths for over elaborate reasons and so are usually left at whatever the local air temperature is, and B, calibration curves exist so you can check the local weather reports, and so based on known recent temperatures adjust your time of death accordingly. Still deeply problematic, however, if the bodies are left exposed to the elements for any length of time due to the temperature differences involved.
* 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 (or occasionally: both at the same time, if it's an item with multiple layers such as a burrito. The reason these items call for low power and longer cook times is that the innermost layers have to cook via indirect heat from the outer layers). 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. If you use the proper amount of water, but turn the heat up too high the rice will caramelize instead: if you have frequent trouble with rice sticking to your pot, this is why.
** Risotto is infamously annoying for this reason. Because it uses so little liquid it needs to be cooked on extremely low heat so that the rice slowly releases it's starch rather than caramelizing. This process takes between 20-30 minutes depending on the exact type of rice, and what other ingredients you use. Depending on the recipe, you may need to stand at your stove and stir it constantly (although some recipes avoid this by using certain preparation techniques). If you have an elderly gas stove without a special low-powered burner, this may prove completely impossible. You can make very similar dishes with couscous, quinoa or farro which take considerably less time and are much less heat sensitive. You'll sometimes see these dishes listed as "risotto" on restaurant menus, but they technically aren't: the word "risotto" means "little rice".
* There are two types of cooking appliances that apply this trope in its more realistic fashion. The slow cooker takes the "less temperature = longer time" approach cooking things like stews, soups and sauces at (relatively) low temperatures, usually so they can be made in large batches. Pressure cookers on the other hand use the "more heat = less time" approach, using the fact that water boils at higher temperatures if you increase the air pressure. This can be done to cook certain foods that normally need to be boiled for an extended period in a reasonable amount of time, or cook normal ingredients very quickly.
* This same logic frequently occurs in businesses where work is measured in "man-hours" [[note]]a unit of measurement roughly equal to the amount of work one person can complete in one hour[[/note]]. If a job is estimated to take X man-hours to complete, then simply throwing more people at the project will decrease the time to completion, right? This mindset is best summed up in an old joke: if it takes a woman nine months to make a baby, then obviously nine women can make a baby in one month.

* The reason why this trope exists is that in a lot of cookbooks the author will write things like "you can increase the temperature to decrease the cook time". It's not that this isn't true, it's just that people who lack cooking experience don't understand what this means: or that there are some severe limitations to this principle. Generally speaking, the most you can shave off the cook time is 10 minutes: and some recipes are too finicky even for that. The cook has to keep in mind as well that certain kinds of ingredients will ''instantly'' change state at certain temperatures: milk curdles, sugars and starches will caramelize, spices will burn, yeast will die etc. If one of those things happens when it wasn't supposed to the result will likely be a difficult to clean up inedible mess. On the other hand, certain beloved recipes were almost certainly discovered this way.
** the dangers of doing this in the other direction (cooking something for longer on lower heat) are considerably less: but with the tradeoff that certain recipes will simply not work (because you actually want an ingredient to melt/caramelize/burn). Slow-cookers work by extending the cooking time so much that it's just as convenient as cutting the cooking time in half (and, because there is no danger of ingredients burning, this can also eliminate the need to stir or agitate). But, the hidden cost of this is that the recipes can be supremely inflexible. Things like using low-fat milk, substituting oil for butter, or eliminating the nuts can have extreme effects on the recipe's cooking time. This is because the slow transfer of heat through the dish must take place in a very particular way, or the chemistry just won't work. But on the plus side, following the recipe WILL consistently result in an excellent product because the slow cooking eliminates 99% of the possible ways a recipe could fail.

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.

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

* 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 congée instead of rice. If you use the proper amount of water, but turn the heat up too high the rice will caramelize instead: if you have frequent trouble with rice sticking to your pot, this is why.
** risotto is infamously annoying for this reason. Because it uses so little liquid it needs to be cooked on extremely low heat so that the rice slowly releases it's starch rather than caramelizing. This process takes between 20-30 minutes depending on the exact type of rice, and what other ingredients you use. Depending on the recipe, you may need to stand at your stove and stir it constantly (although some recipes avoid this by using certain preparation techniques). If you have an elderly gas stove without a special low-powered burner, this may prove completely impossible. You can make very similar dishes with couscous, quinoa or farro which take considerably less time and are much less heat sensitive. You'll sometimes see these dishes listed as "risotto" on restaurant menus, but they technically aren't: the word "risotto" means "little rice".

* UpToEleven in ''FanFic/KyonBigDamnHero''. Kuyou takes Mikuru's cooking advice about the importance of the proportions between ingredients at face value, a misconception that led her to think she can achieve good results if she simply works at a scale more comfortable for her perception and powers as long as the proportions are respected. Long story short, in Chapter 57 she tried to make a cookie [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure six-point-five times as big as the]] ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} planet Jupiter]]'' in this manner. Apparently, at this scale the gravitational field generated by the cookie's own mass interferes with the baking process.

* A Thanksgiving episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' has Amy turning the turkey fryer UpToEleven to speed the cooking time. The ensuing explosion launches the turkey into the air and it falls on Teddy. The family ends up eating sandwiches that "may contain turkey" around her hospital bed.

** This trope was also explored when Adam and Jamie tested a viral video that involved [[ItMakesSenseInContext firing shrimp from a cannon to have them collide with the batter and fly through cooking flames before landing on the plate]]. As Adam summates at the end of the episode, even the use of [[UpToEleven several swordsmith furnaces]] doesn't cook the shrimp, as you also need time in addition to heat, which the shrimp don't get when they pass through the furnaces in less than a second. This is why many other examples of this trope fail the way they do, as the way the heat is absorbed through the food is arguably ''more'' important than the heat itself.

* [[https://i.imgur.com/vi2OnlW.jpg This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} thread about baking cookies going UpToEleven.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* 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 explodes spectacularly.

* A version of this occurs in ''Manga/IronWokJan''. Jan is a skilled chef, but because he was raised alone by his grandfather, he has no idea how to cook for more than five people. When he starts working at the Gobancho restaurant, he tries to cook vegetables for fifty people by taking the recipes his grandfather taught him and multiplying all of the quantities of food by ten. The end result is deemed a failure. He realizes his mistake later: [[spoiler: all of the additional vegetables add too much water and make the dish too juicy.]]
* A variant appears in the episode "Toys in the Attic" of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', where Spike's impatience leads to him trying to use some kind of flamethrower-like tool to cook kebabs more quickly. The results are charred, inedible messes.
* Baldroy from ''Manga/BlackButler'' is a master of making anything he touches inedible. But it should be expected from a guy who cooks using flamethrowers and dynamite.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, one of the few male students to take the Assassins' Guild School's Domestic Science course[[note]]Despite the best intentions of the staff, including a senior teacher who points to the paradox of 90% of the great chefs all being men, and who believes ''all'' people should know how to cook a few dishes well, not just the girls, take-up is almost exclusively female[[/note]], is research-minded Assassin A.C. Clarke. Arthur is obsessed with what he calls the "macrowave oven" -- a means of cooking complex time-heavy dishes in minutes, even seconds. Teacher Joan Sanderson-Reeves puts a very definite stop to ''that'' line of thought but concedes it could have explosive uses. Joan then gets hapless student Hermann Meier Wetterarscht, who opted for Dom Sci as an undemanding three hours in the warm, in a class which was almost all girls. Wetterarscht, while trying for brioche and ciabatta, ends up recreating something akin to Dwarf Bread, causing an oven to collapse under the weight and then implode. Joan was not pleased.
* 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 (or, at least, put on probation), though the current chef does note that the disaster gives her an idea... one she'd like to explore further, from a great distance.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNHgbczqM-w this]] fan-made ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' trial, this is inverted by April May, who decides to cook a chicken for 9 hours at 33.3 degrees celsius, instead of cooking for 90 minutes at 200 like instructed.

* In ''Grimble'' by Clement Freud, a recipe tells Grimble to boil a potato for 20 minutes. He cuts it into sixteenths and boils them for a minute and a quarter.
* Employed by Katie in ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheSilverEyes'' when she realizes that she's late putting the meat-loaf into the stove, so she moves the temperature from 350 to 500 to compensate and burns it. In her defense, she's 9.

* This happened on an episode of ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse''. Pee-Wee and Ms. Yvonne were baking bread at 360 degrees, and Randy turned the oven up all the way to ''700'', thinking that it would get done in half the time.
* The older brother on ''Series/MrBelvedere'' did this in one episode. The title character had [[OverlyLongGag quite a few witty one-liners]] regarding the results.
-->"Kevin, I don't mean to be cruel, but this sounds like something [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling your brother]] would do."\\
"Pity we don't have a kiln; we could have eaten yesterday."\\
"Instead of Lobster Thermidor we will be having lobster jerky."

* A later episode of ''Series/ThreesCompany'' had an episode where Jack was appearing on TV doing a cooking segment, with Janet and Terri as his assistants. During their rehearsal, Janet addresses the issue and Jack explained why it wasn't a good idea.

* Neelix does this in an episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and it works. Further proof that reality does not apply to this series. He also suggests at one point that if the crew picks up some space-gas he could use it to "get more energy" and improve cooking time. Many jokes have been made about Neelix's [[GiftedlyBad cooking both in and out of the show.]]
* One episode of ''Series/CharlesInCharge'' has a multi-tiered example; Charles and Buddy don't know what temperature to bake the cake at, so Buddy surmises that if a baked potato cooks at 350 degrees, a cake, which is approximately 10 times as big, should cook at 3,000. Since the oven only goes up to 500, they decide to compensate by cooking it for 6 times as long.

* Parodied in the ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'', where a microwave is hooked up to a VCR to introduce fast forward (cook something rapidly), rewind (freeze something rapidly), and eject (launches the food product).
* On ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'', when the men are supposed to be cooking the Thanksgiving turkey, they wind up with an abbreviated and alcohol-fueled instance. After doing the math (250 degrees, 4 hours = 1000 degrees, 1 hour) a problem and creative solution are presented:
--> This oven only goes to 500 degrees.\\
We'll get two ovens!
* A Thanksgiving episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' has Amy turning the turkey fryer UpToEleven to speed the cooking time. The ensuing explosion launches the turkey into the air and it falls on Teddy. The family ends up eating sandwiches that "may contain turkey" around her hospital bed.
* On ''Series/PeepShow'', Jeremy explains how to "trick" the boiler into heating up the flat faster by setting it to a higher temperature than he actually wants, so it'll panic thinking it has a long way to go only to be shut off before it gets there.

* ''Series/{{Speechless}}'' also had this in a Thanksgiving episode, with predictable results.
* 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.

* Used in an unusual way on ''Creator/FoodNetwork Challenge''. When pouring sugar into a cold liquid to create designs, one contestant explained that the sugar (300 degrees in an unspecified scale) and the liquid nitrogen (-300 degrees in an unspecified scale) averaged out in temperature. Judging from context, the unspecified scale was Fahrenheit.
* ''The Uncle Floyd Show,'' an offbeat kids' show on the New Jersey Network, had Julia Stepchild creating some concoction in which the oven is preheated to "On."
* Despite having to be good bakers just to get ''on'' the show, bakers sometimes attempt this on ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'' because of time constraints: if they're behind, they may have no other choice if they're to have anything to present. Sometimes it works, sometimes it... doesn't.

* In ''Matchington Mansion'' Tiffany decides to double the oven temperature in an attempt to bake cookies in half the time, asking WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong. When she tries feeding one to the dog and cat, they run out of the room.

* ''Webcomic/TheDailyDerp'': "Take your time to perform certain tasks". Derpy [[http://dailyderp.tumblr.com/post/31557451434/tetratip-take-your-time-to-perform-certain-tasks learns it the hard way.]]
* Tanya from ''Webcomic/ForestHill'' tries to hurriedly [[https://www.foresthillcomic.org/comic/16d013/ cook chicken legs ]] for dinner, with the legs ending up burnt to a crisp, and her dad ordering takeout instead.

* In an Honorable Mention from ''Website/DarwinAwards'', a chef was cooking [[https://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid2009-26.html an alcohol-enriched fruitcake]] at 200 F in the oven, when his father dropped by the kitchen. Noticing the low temperature setting, and thinking to speed up the process, the father dialed the heat up to 350. Before the son could finish turning it down, or a verbal warning that "alcohol burns", the cake flamed out, blowing open the oven door and singing his forearm.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode in which Madame Foster's cookie recipe becomes a worldwide attraction, Bloo is left to make cookies all by himself. He uses this logic to bake a batch, causing the roof of the house to explode.
-->'''Bloo:''' Okay, this is taking too long. Let's see, if it takes 20 minutes to cook at 250 degrees...it should take ''2 minutes'' at 2500 degrees! ''(Bloo does this, causing the roof to be blown off)'' Whoops.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had an episode dedicated to the girls running a restaurant and they ended up applying this logic to a cake.
%%* A ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} & Son'' episode has Popeye and Junior using this logic when Olive wasn't available to cook.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' Shaggy makes popcorn by putting it in the microwave and setting the temperature to 8 million degrees for one second. It works: His house is instantly filled with popcorn.
** 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.
* A recipe-based variation in ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': Roger needs eight bananas for banana pudding but only has six, so he comes up with the brilliant idea of subtracting 2 from everything. The resulting goo isn't very appetizing on its own, but it turns out to be fantastic as a pizza topping. Note that this is ''almost'' a valid cooking method, as he could have made a smaller recipe if he reduced each ingredient by 1/4 of its original amount, but subtracted when he should have multiplied. Close, but still so wrong.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** PlayedForLaughs in "Moon Farm." [[ItMakesSenseInContext While on the moon]], Ferb relates a recipe for "Lamb Cobbler" to Phineas, who relates it to Irving, who relates it to Candace and Stacy. The ingredients get messed up in the typical "telephone" manner (e.g. "One pound of ''lamp''" instead of "lamb,"), and the cooking time is 350 degrees for one 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]], [[RuleOfFunny in defiance of any sort of logic]].
--->'''Candace:''' Lamb cobbler! And it's beautiful!\\
'''Stacy:''' [[LampshadeHanging How could that be? We didn't even put lamb in it!]]
** "Bad Hair Day" has Candace sitting under a hair restorer after a disastrous attempt at styling her own hair. She's supposed to sit under it for an hour at setting 5, but Jeremy says he's coming over in 20 minutes, so Candace decides that 10 seconds on setting 20 will do just as well. After all, "[[LampshadeHanging they wouldn't]] [[TimTaylorTechnology put a 20 on it]] [[TemptingFate if it weren't meant to be used, right?]]" This resulted in her hair being fixed, but over the course of her date, she grew enough facial and body hair to resemble an orangutan.
* In the [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney short]] "Mickey's Birthday Party", Minnie's oven goes all the way up to "volcano heat." Goofy uses the setting to speed up baking the cake with explosive results.
%%* The 1987 TV special ''Blondie and Dagwood'', based on the [[ComicStrip/{{Blondie}} comic strip]], had Dagwood attempt this.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E3TheKnights The Knights]]", Gumball orders Darwin to bake cookies to prepare for Penny's visit to the Watterson house. When Darwin's just putting the tray in the oven, an impatient Gumball tells him to bake faster, then turns up the temperature and burns the cookies to a crisp.

* In the ''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 baking it for 2 minutes at 1800 degrees. She tries 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{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.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/VoltronForce'', Hunk builds an enormous contraption that turns out to be a jet fuel-powered grill to cook a side of ribs bigger than he is. It instantly burns the meat to ash, then blasts itself through the roof and explodes.

-->'''Postnote''':"In the end nobody got a cookie."\

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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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* In an ad for M&Ms with a cookie recipe, the red and yellow M&Ms remind the consumer not to try this -- the red one holding up burnt-looking cookies and mentioning "500 degrees for 20 minutes", while the yellow one, looking rather singed, says, "And ''definitely'' [[SchmuckBait don't try 1000 degrees]] [[TemptingFate for 10 minutes!]]"

* Annie and Jake try this in the Thanksgiving episode of ''Series/MarryMe''. The turkey ends up burnt and they are forced to rely on Gil's selection of exotic cheeses.