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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Our new office apparently has a “confection oven” but my friends who actually cook know of no such thing.
In a quick informal survey of 7 office staff, I found that 3 think a confection oven is an oven that cooks confections especially well but they don’t know why, 2 think a confection oven is an oven that cooks confections especially well because it circulates hot air, and 2 (3 if you count me) think they really mean “convection oven.”
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