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I have an oven question and I am hoping someone can help me. We recently moved and I am using the oven that came with the house (my old oven stayed at our old house  ). Anyway, I am having trouble with baking. My most recent example was today's banana bread. The outside of the bread was very done while the inside of the bread was a sloppy mess. The last time I baked banana bread in this oven, I tried to extend the bake time to make it cook throughout (no sloppy middle) but then the outside was burnt so badly that it was inedible. So it's either the inside is inedible or the outside. This also has happened with my wheat bread (not to the same extreme though) and ds's birthday cake. The strange thing is that my meatloaf, baked potatoes, and some other dinner items bake just fine.
Any suggestions? Is there anything I can do about this?
Thanks and God bless,
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have you changed elevation?
get an oven thermometer (they're not horribly expensive and you can buy a cheap one at the grocery store) and check that your temperature is correct no matter what the oven says.
Without knowing for sure.. I'd think you need to lower the temperature.
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It does sound like a temperature issue. Baked things like bread, etc are so much more sensitive to temperature variations than meatloaf, potatoes, etc. I second the suggestion to get an oven thermometer and use it to adjust your temps.
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I third the suggestion for a thermometer. I always have to use one in my oven too, as the oven says that it's 25-35 degrees warmer than what the thermometer reads.
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Same thing happened with the stove here when we first moved in. I burnt everything!  Turned out the thermomstat was out by 75 degrees (too hot). Definitely get a thermometer and test it.
We eventually bought a new stove but knowing how much lower to set it was a very good thing. 
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Well, I did get an oven thermometer over the weekend. It turns out that the oven IS 25 degrees too hot. I guess the solution now is to adjust the temperature and give it test batch of something  This is just in time for dd's 5th birthday on Friday. I look forward to having a good tasting, baked correctly, cake for her 
Thank you all for your help!
God bless,
Christine
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