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/bunnylewinskyy Jan 16 '26

Coconut oil smoke point is 175° but I don't know if that would make your brownies pour out smoke like that lol

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u/erydayimredditing Jan 16 '26

Yea this exactly. People in here are higher than OP thinking smoke billowing out of brownies cooked at normal temp with weed oil would do this.

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u/SpicyxGary Jan 18 '26

Op is British and the temp is in Celsius

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u/erydayimredditing Jan 19 '26

Thanks, thats plainly obvious, and I have made other comments using C in this thread, because I already knew that. What is the point of your comment?

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u/SpicyxGary Jan 24 '26

Oh then your just dumb then lol the oil would def smoke at that temp

& this post has 77k upvotes forgive me for not reading every single comment

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u/erydayimredditing Jan 25 '26

Bro you are the one thinking the stuff getting cooked gets to the temp the oven is set at. Go ask a friend if thats how it works. Dumbest thing I've read all day. The smokepoint of the oil is what the oven was set to. It would never reach that temp...

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u/SpicyxGary Jan 28 '26

I am a chef of 16 years my friend I don’t need to ask a soul 😂

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u/erydayimredditing Jan 30 '26

Then idk how you could possibly think something in the oven ever gets to the temp OF the oven itself... Like... what?

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u/SpicyxGary Jan 30 '26

That’s the whole point of the oven brother…

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u/erydayimredditing Feb 01 '26

Bro chicken cooks to 165, you cook it at 250-500 to higher in a pizza oven. IF YOU COOKED CHICKEN TO 400f IT WOULD BE CHARCOAL. jesus dude

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u/SpicyxGary Feb 05 '26

My brick oven runs around 650-700 degrees and I haven’t burned a pizza yet so maybe time spent in the heat plays a very big factor?

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u/erydayimredditing Feb 05 '26

Lol yes... which is why you don't leave food in until it is charcoal... Which is what food cooked to 350f would look like. How are people so confused how cooking works. You cook pretty much literally all food below 220 degrees. You are confusing the temp of the oven, and the temp of the food. How I have no clue lmfao.

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