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

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          A first time baker in the US who followed a European recipe could conceivably end up with warm dough.

      • 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.