Your story is giving me flashbacks to my "roast that wouldn't brown" last winter. The outside was pale and sad while the inside was somehow already well-done. I was convinced I'd lost my cooking mojo until a friend pointed out it was probably the oven. I was super hesitant to call someone, worried it'd be a huge bill for a simple fix. I ended up using
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