As the title says, it’s mildly infuriating seeing someone say " cook this at 210° " and stuff like that, we are in a international context!! Do i have to put those cookies in the flames of hell or just around the boiling point of water?!
Edit: the cookie thing was just an example and i throw a random number lol
No one is cooking something in an oven at 180f nor 350c
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Also if they write 210° it’s an angle not a temperature
Always cook facing away from the oven
Wait is that in degrees or gradians?
Did you just watch toolroom takeover too?
Nope, just a setting on my calculator
yeah and the Angles are a tribe, basically Germans in England
That kind of thing brings my blood to 100°.
I hate this so much, anyway, do you have a fever?
I would expect it to be a bit higher than 100° what with all the non-water stuff in there.
is there steam coming out of your ears?
As with everything, we know it’s all the Americans’ fault. Joking. Halfway, anyway - they are a majority of the people who, internationally speaking, wanted to be all precious about this stuff. Although even if they didn’t, it’d still seem like “good practice” to include units anyway, though.
The cooking does tend to just be context, though, or at least “same as all the other recipes”. There’s only so many sane temps to pick for any given thing, and there’s a factor of ~2 between the two choices. E.g. if you were baking, 210° is either pretty hot or way too cool for most things.
In international context the International System of Units must be used. So the ° is wrong it’s ‘K’. You have to put the cookies in a ice/salt mixture or better frozen CO2
That would be ideal but honestly I don’t mind too much if someone just uses the °F or °C, i can convert it easly, it’s annoying if they don’t use any unit at all tho and expect me to just guess
True, however the “convert it easily” part is getting tricky as soon as you deal with seismic activities or radio nuclides.
Same is true when people tell you their local time and not their time zone.
Why do you need their time zone if you know their local time? You’ll either be in the same time zone as them, or in one that you can reference your time to theirs.
I’m in a global group. Someone reaches out to me and tells me they’re free at 6. Wtf does that mean? 6 what?
6 o’clock, I’d wager. Either yours or theirs, and you presumably know where both of you are.
My local time is 1705 right now, doesnt help much, its better if I say 1705 CEST…but it helps way more to say that Im 1705 UTC+2
I work in metric as an American, my industry is probably the only one that works in metric world wide. Temp is mixed
What industry is that?
Aerospace
My last project in aerospace with 100’s of people was mostly Imperial. There is a lot of mixing of units and you can basically design your subsystem however you want. There was a mandate decades ago to go metric, but that has largely been ignored. It’s the worst of both worlds!
My current project is just a couple people, so I mandated all metric. I have to spend a lot of money on tooling, but it is largely fine. I would say 10 years ago getting some fancy aerospace grade fasteners was easier in Imperial, less so today.
My mind still defaults to Imperial for very small dimensions like a 8 thou gap or something.
Considering that most cookie recipes are usually at 170c or 350 f to 204c or 400 f, surely you can figure that out from context?
Especially since certain chemical reactions only begin to happen at the low side of that. For example the Maillard reaction enhances the flavor of sugars and such; or double acting baking powder (as well as greatly accelerating the reaction of single acting powder, soda or cream of tartar.)
Low temp ovens would just dry out that cookie or biscuit into dog treats.
Considering that most cookie recipes are usually at 170c or 350 f to 204c or 400 f, surely you can figure that out from context?
Well that was mostly an example, i never made cookies so i just said a random number
Especially since certain chemical reactions only begin to happen at the low side of that. For example the Maillard reaction enhances the flavor of sugars and such; or double acting baking powder (as well as greatly accelerating the reaction of single acting powder, soda or cream of tartar.)
Well, i am not a chemist, i just know a handful of stuff that i can use in everyday life, eg: using hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stained on clothing
Don’t even get me started on the yanks thinking cups is an acceptable measurement of both weight and volume.
And how big are we talking? Espresso cup or sports direct mug, because there’s a massive difference.
I’m not from the US and don’t use it, but a cup there is an actual measurement (for liquid - it’s not used to measure weight). 8 fluid ounces or about 240ml. The metric alternative of a US cup is 250ml
We don’t measure weights in cups, but we do measure some ingredients (like flour) by volume, so it’s not uncommon here to see a recipe that calls for 1 cup of flour instead of 120g
However, we do use “ounce” to mean both 1/8 of a cup in volume and 1/16 of a pound in weight…
Well that’s simply because there’s are 2 cups in a pint. So an ounce is 1/16 pint or 1/16 pound.
Never heard someone say mind your cups and pints, they’d have to be a hobbit. (Mind your p’s & q’s)
Usually they mean the imperial unit “cup” i fucking hate imperial…also, it’s annoying in this case because you have to guess that it’s the imperial unit and not a random cup
Nobody has ever read cooking instruction and thought “they mean for me to measure this with a mug from my cabinet” lol
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No, but they’ve probably thought “what fucking size cup do these twats mean and why can’t they just put an actual measurement”.
I’ll take your word for it. All of my measuring tools have cups on one side and mL on the other. Git gud scrub
To add insult to injury, a US cup is 236.6 millilitres, while a UK (imperial) cup is 170.48 millilitres. Not even close. There’s a whole lot of other measurements called “cup” too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
I wanna kms at this point
What size cup is that?
30F (USA) i think
