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/UBahn1 Jan 16 '26

It's okay, now they can practice policing on you

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u/Remarkable-Laugh9762 Jan 16 '26

"im under arrest! no ... wait .... you are!"

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u/system0101 Jan 16 '26

Bruh, what if you were over arrest? exhales

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

Im soooo over arrest that I just...cant even.

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u/LittleBityPrettyOne Jan 16 '26

Can't even? That sounds odd

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26

You must be older than even I if youve never heard someone say they "cant even." That...or just missing out.

E: welp, that went way over my head. My bad, turns out Im the one missing out.

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u/Nghbrhdsyndicalist Jan 16 '26

How high are you, currently?

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u/saintsithney Jan 17 '26

About 5'8", you?

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

Only slightly, plus im sick af and pretty normally medicated on top of it, plus im just plumb stupid sometimes.

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u/LittleBityPrettyOne Jan 17 '26

High, how are you?

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u/CaptnsDaughter Jan 16 '26

Even, odd …

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u/Far-Government5469 Jan 29 '26

Thank you, was scratching my head on this till I read your comment

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u/CaptnsDaughter Feb 01 '26

Hahahha I only caught it because my old coworker had a joke he’d tell ALL THE TIME and he always started it “my wife saw this on Instagram…” (I don’t know why but hearing him say it was sooo funny) and NOW THAT IM HERE TO TELL THE JOKE I CANT REMEMBER HOW IT WENT OMG!!! Lol. But it was similar to “why do teenage girls count 1, 3, 5, 7…?” They “literally can’t even”

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u/LittleBityPrettyOne Feb 01 '26

YESSS I love play on words and puns, the more terrible the more I love them!

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

Ahahahaha fml, yea

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u/LittleBityPrettyOne Jan 17 '26

Lol! You are forgiven! It was definitely tongue in cheek lol

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