Here’s a conversation I had yesterday on another message board:
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In Samin Nosrat’s latest cookbook: Good Things she writes that cookies stay crispy if kept in tins.
Since I much prefer crispy cookies, I’ve been trying to do this.
And it’s been said before, but cool COMPLETELY before storing.
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these choc chip cookies will get MORE, not less, crunchy on day 2 and onward.
This is a dark day. My oven seems to have gone rogue and is not holding a consistent temperature.
I tried making a batch of crinkle cookies, and they did not crinkle. Rather, they spread like hell and got very flat. They look disastrous.
I reverted to the King Arthur version, and what the hell is even going on here?
Not sure I have it in me to give it another go in the morning (the bake-off is tomorrow). But I do not think I’m going to win. 
Sorry to see this, that’s really frustrating. You could try putting a pizza stone or some bricks in the oven (if you happen to have some bricks on hand 
) to help give it some thermal stability. Maybe even just a few cast iron pans. Whatever you have that’s heavy and can hold some heat. You could maybe put stuff both on the very bottom and at the very top, to make middle rack that you can bake with and keep at the right temp.
I have a steel that lives in the oven full time. The temperature is see-sawing from 290 to 400 - it’s crazy! Anyway, with any luck I’ll get 11 okay cookies and one mutant, and THAT WILL HAVE TO DO.
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Yikes. I see a new oven in your future. 
The mister has been agitating for a new one for a couple of years, and I keep insisting there’s nothing wrong with the one we have. He is very excited now.
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Ahhh! So I see a Wolf oven in your future???
Gas ovens do that; is that what you have? Mine is gas and I don’t have problems but I’ve read it’s good to have stove top gas and oven electric.
Do you have an electric toaster oven you could try?
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I think a good GE would do fine.
I switched from gas to exactly this configuration and I regret it so much. I love to bake bread and pizza and the gas oven did such a better job at high heat, especially in convection mode. (Which is really important for the way I like to make pizza.)
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Yep. I will consider an electric oven, but I have to have a gas range. Or maybe induction… (drifts off into fever dream about actually having money)
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WTH? How many cookies are you supposed to offer as part of the contest?
OK, I giggled at this. Are you SURE he hasn’t fiddled with the settings on the oven? (j/k!)
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I’ve never cooked on convection. Not into making my own pizzas.
Maybe buy an individual induction burner to try out, maybe $70 +
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Or a Viking. He’s all of a sudden very covetous of fancy kitchen appliances. We have a Frigidaire (from 2007), and tbh, it has been showing some signs of age. Like, you have to blow on the burners to get them to light. Maybe it is time.
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Oh, so do I, so maybe I should stick with gas?
