When my wife is cooking a roast in the oven does the top element engage at all?
There is nothing wrong with your top element nor anything wrong with the temperature you are baking your muffins at. What IS wrong is your oven thermostat – not an unusual state of affairs. (Also remember that in baking your pans should be placed as close to the center of the oven as possible.) Pick up an inexpensive oven thermometer. You will find one right in many grocery stores, in the aisle where they sell things like measuring spoons and burner liner pans. Position the top rack of your oven so that the oven thermometer, when hung from one of the wires in the center of the rack, is as close to the center of the oven as you can get it. Be sure the thermometer is facing out. Now, set your oven to 300 and let it preheat. Record the exact temperature shown by your oven thermometer. Turn the oven temp up to 325 and repeat. Keep repeating until you get to 450 or so – about the highest tempt things are usually cooked at in a home oven. With luck, you will discover that your thermostat is
