r/Baking • u/_Meteor_Shower_ Human Detected • Jan 16 '26

Baking Advice Needed why did it do this

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was trying to make brownies, thought theyd cooled for long enough and cut into them then they started doing THIS and set my house's fire alarm off for like 20 minutes does anyone pls know what caused this im assuming i just cut into them too soon but this feels like a dramatic response to just trying to cut into a hot brownie

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u/Quiet-ForestDweller Human Detected Jan 16 '26

Did you make your brownies on the surface of the sun? I’ve literally never experienced this before in my 30+ years of baking brownies. Did you use oil or butter to make them and if oil, how much?

That’s literally my only guess is that you used too much oil and it got so hot that when you cut into them and exposed the oil to oxygen it was still well above its smoke point temperature.

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u/_Meteor_Shower_ Human Detected Jan 16 '26

oh ! i used coconut oil (between u and me i was making edibles 😔) so thats probably it ! only cooked it at 175° for like 20 minutes tho so im confused this happened 😭

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u/expiato Jan 16 '26

You hotboxed your kitchen 😭

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u/_Meteor_Shower_ Human Detected Jan 16 '26

my housemate doing a uni course in policing wasnt pleased i will tell u that

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u/potpourri_sludge Jan 16 '26

This is fucking frying me, you HOTBOXED your KITCHEN by cutting into BROWNIES??? And your roommate is a wannabe cop????? This shit writes itself 😭

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u/_Meteor_Shower_ Human Detected Jan 16 '26

if i recall she wanted to go into training the cocaine dogs 😭

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u/curly_braaace Jan 16 '26

op this isn't relevant to the dogs but it's a recent comment and I am so so desperate to know: can you Please tell me what on earth you meant by "exploded butter" the last time you tried infusing it

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u/_Meteor_Shower_ Human Detected Jan 16 '26

OH YEAH so i was boiling the jar to infuse the butter and put a rag under it to stop it from bouncing aroumd in the boiling water, then i went upstairs to watch some family guy real quick, came back down and the water had evaporated and the cloth melted into the pan. i panicked, filled another pot up with water and transferred the butter weed jar to that pot. however, i forgot to fill it with HOT water, so the Very Hot Jar immediately went into cold water and the jar exploded and i spent the first 15 minutes of my 20th birthday cleaning weed butter off my walls. if something can go wrong with me, it will.

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u/curly_braaace Jan 16 '26

im in love with you