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Chocolate Lava Cakes (and internal/oven temperature trace)

I baked "Chocolate Lava Cakes For Two", the NYT Cooking recipe. It's one I make semi-regularly, pretty quick on a weeknight and delicious. I have small ramekins so the recipe makes three and they cook a little faster than the recipe's would.

I have two temperature probes (thermocouples on a Tasmota ESP8266 => HomeAssistant => Grafana). Mostly for my entertainment, but here you can see the internal temperature got to 151F, and I was surprised to see how much the oven's temperature rebounded after I took the cakes out, despite being off.

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Have you played around with tracking temperatures on other baked goods? I'm very curious and think it would be cool to trial on more foods empirically!
- Glad to share more! I don't bake a big variety of things, but anything you're particularly wondering about?
  
  Have you done any recipes where you vary the final internal temperature to compare results? Mostly what I would want to do is probably for things like cookies (in pursuit of the perfect balance of chewy/crunchy chocolate chip), but I imagine it would be interesting to try on pastries and bread!
Cool temp graph! Cakey lookin' sweet too
- Thanks!

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