How hard is it to add c or f to the end of a tempreture
How the hell are people supposed to know if you are using celsius or fahrenheit
I just assume people using unreasonable numbers (50 or above for weather for example, or more than 5 when talking about snow) are using American units and everyone else is using normal temperatures.
I don’t read a lot of comments from Liberia or the small islands that also use American units, and so far this approach has worked well for me.
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When would you be confused by cooking temperatures? Nobody cooks anything below about 225F which would be for low and slow smoking generally. Anything else is probably 300+. I’m wondering at what overlap point you’d need further clarification.
A first time baker in the US who followed a European recipe could conceivably end up with warm dough.
You meant a “first time idiot who can’t notice that the oven is still cold”.
Unless you’re slow cooking things, the temperatures generally make sense. My electric oven goes up to about 230 degrees, so I assume any temperature indicated for sustained baking at max temperature or any temperature above 250 degrees is probably American.
There are situation where the temperature can be a little confusing, but I generally look up multiple similar recipes when I’m cooking something new and that generally provides enough context to find the right measurements.
My worst cooking enemy is cups/tablespoons. The UK units are different from the US units, and then there are the “metric” cups to worry about, especially when not every single ingredient is specified as cups/teaspoons.
The experiment occurred at a cool -40 degrees.
Kelvin? Oh god! Below absolute 0!!!
Fun fact: there’s no degrees Kelvin since it’s an absolute scale.
Kelvin is an absolute unit.
What do you mean? Thought it started at 0 degrees (absolute 0) and just scaled up?
I have been guilty of this but I will change!
From now on, I will be sure to specify that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees fahrenheit and of a square is 360 degrees celcius.
Context clues
The weather today is nice at 22, but back home it was -10 last week.
I’m in Europe and traveling. How do you figure out the second? If I am American it’s not going to be converted, so that would be F, almost every else would be C.
Context can’t help you in a lot of situations.
22 would rarely be nice in F unless (context clues) we’re in a bad winter but going to a much worse one.
Yeah the first one you can get context from the current weather, but the second is the one that lacks any context without additional conversation. You know what provides the context easier? Saying Celsius of Fahrenheit.
I mean I guess. Someone who switches systems between sentences sounds like a deranged outlier though.
It is incredibly tough to have conversations with Americans who think local means their units yes.
They don’t even realize they do it, it’s 22c where they are, so that’s what they refer to, but back home they use their local units there. Both are local, they aren’t changing anything like a deranged lunatic. They just fuck it up since they never denote units ever.
Simple concept really.
True lol
Where would you be living if 22F is considered nice weather?
That would be 22 Celsius, I even gave you a place for context for that one.
Your example just proved my point. The context for the second one is that the first one is clearly Celsius. Why would you ever change units?
I suppose if this were a conversation about imperial vs metric you’d give me the example of wanting a 50cm board that’s 2 thick and wondering how the reader was supposed to know you you didn’t mean 2 inches
I gave you the example, an American would accidentally switch when talking about the weather back home last week as it would be Fahrenheit in a Celsius county. How does that prove YOUR point lmfao.
Why would an American use two different units in the same conversation
They use Fahrenheit 99% of the time, the only time they would ever use Celsius would be for current local weather when traveling.
Very few people would remember to make the change, and you’re only lying to yourself if you don’t think the vast majority of people would make the mistake. Like it happens all the time when conversing online or IRL already and you want to claim people are smarter than that? Sure buddy…. Why do you think this post exists…? Because it happens lmfao.
Somewhere where it gets to -10F. That’s like the difference between 50F and 80F
100 degrees
Tell me if that’s in fahrenheit or celsius
Hint: it has nothing to do with the weather
Well you haven’t given the context. We can’t guess the context and the units.
If somebody has a fever of 100, F. If you’re cooking, C. If it’s weather, F.
You’re cooking, so boiling water
Didn’t say I was cooking either
There’s other things outside of cooking that are very tempreture cooking like science for example
If I said it was a comfortable 22 degrees, there’s really only one unit I could be referring to.
Fahrenheit!
Kelvin!
“I’m only comfortable at absolute zero.”
“Cold? It’s not cold outside! It’s only getting cold when you can see the helium snow.”
A chilly -40 in Siberia
Obviously f, that’s the ideal fall temperature.
25°C is (according to a british youtuber) hot in england. 25°C is getting out jumpers/hoodies for me in australia.
You’d be more comfortable at -5C?
People who use farenheit are infuriating
I like C because it is 0 at freezing 100 at boiling but I like F because the degrees are smaller units. The only thing that bothers me is when the news says our 90F feels like 110F. The ‘heat index’ or ‘wind chill’ expression of temperature drive me crazy because 90F by definition feels how it feels outside, nobody lives in a climate controlled box.
I assume people are using the superior Celsius.
Until recent years, there was no reason to be ther since you mostly talked to people near you
But I don’t see how it matters: in normal conversation it’s usually obvious. I work with people in the UK a lot and there’s no impediment to conversations where they complain it’s 35° and I complain it’s 95°. We knots linens summer and we’re talking hot but livable conditions so it’s obvious what units were each using
We knots linens summer
So no confusion around temperature but you find other ways to confuse each other?
A lot of people type the way they speak. It would sound ridiculous to include it in a casual conversation with someone you know is using the same standard as you.
I do agree though that a unit should be included when speaking to a broad audience though and I don’t think that would be a very unpopular opinion tbh. I’m a man of science though and I’ve been trained by enough teacher saying “30 what? Bananas?!” that I pretty much always include them be default even when it’s clear.
For Celsius I’m pretty sure I hear people say “C” right after they say the temps
lol maybe in the US
Is it ridiculous to include it? Or were you taught that? We were taught to include it, granted, we have to deal with metric and imperial measurements from imports, but why is it ridiculous to make sure you’re providing the right information?
I would laugh if my buddy told me it was going to be 90 f tomorrow. Obviously it’s Fahrenheit, it’s not possible to be 90 c where we are.
Sure but than you get in the habit of not adding it when it’s needed. I may be a little biased since almost everything I work with is imperial in a metric country, but my buddies would laugh with me since they know the distinction is important to us.
Ridiculous is definitely not the right word to use in this case, I will admit. I think my point still stands though. Many people are used to being in a situation where people implicitly understand what they’re referring to. If people can shorten language in any way while still retaining the same meaning they will in a lot of cases.
Most people not in the US need to deal with both in most casual conversations. So they need to clarify almost all units.
I’m in a trade, almost every material is imperial in my metric world. Everyone I deal with with knows the confusion that can happen, so it’s always unit denotions on everything.
I see you’re Canadian so I can understand your frustrations (I wish the US would go metric personally) and I agree that if there is a chance of confusion, defaulting to being more specific is always correct. I’d say generalizing this to a situation where absolutely everyone else is also using mixed standards is not correct either.
There are also a lot of places in the world where you can be making small talk with a stranger about the weather and how nice a day it is at 22 today and both parties would understand the statement.
On the same vein of your last point, start talking about the weather that isn’t right at that second, now confusion can seep in.
“Today is nice at 22, but man back home it was -10 last week.” “Oh thats right, that last one is Fahrenheit since that’s local to me. What’s that in Celsius?”
Its a balmy 273° today
I find it’s typically Americans who don’t put F down, if it’s about celcius it’s typically done. Probably a cultural me thing there.
So if it’s not denoted, usually safe to assume the measurement is imperial.
Always assume Kelvin and see where it goes
I feel that. Me coming from a science background - always use your units. 20 and 20C are not the same thing. Without a unit, a number exists only as a mathematical idea. Even in my own personal notes, I use proper unit notation.
My physics teacher used to get mad at us. “2.63? … 2.63 what?! Slug lengths?!”
I recipe on TikTok said to cook the chicken in the oven at 180° but didn’t specify c or f. So I baked the chicken at like 180° for like an hour and it was still raw. I raised the temp and it all worked out but I guess i should have been a bit sus
For future reference, the average temperature for baking is 180c or 350f. Anything under 300 is a pretty good indicator of it being Celsius. Unless it’s something that is going to bake for 6+ hours, like brisket.
Being in Canada when talking with very senior Canadians (from before metric times) or just People from the US, I know they are talking in American Freedom Units when it comes to this. When they say anything high 90s I suspect we aren’t talking about almost boiling water. Pretty much any number above 50 and I’m fairly sure they are still talking in American.
I also know when it comes to 37 in Phoenix in the first weekend of April it’s time to head back north to cooler temperatures of the mid 20s. I also know an American might think I meant Alaska with those numbers for April so it can get a little tricky there but it’s only the weather and not a lab experiment.
Things become more confusing if you are in Antarctica. I wonder how people deal with units there.
Cold, colder, and frostbite
At -40 there is no difference so it stops mattering very much
