When pizzas call for 425°F, I purposely set the temp at 420° because of course
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RandomStickman@kbin.run 3 months agoWhat? No one's using C to that precision outside the lab. It just depends on what you grew up with man. I know below 0 I need a winter jacket, ~10C chilly, ~20C is shorts weather, ~30C is hot, >40C is death. Perfectly practical everyday estimations.
For me the only advantage of F is you can say it's 69F out and bake things at 420F.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
c0ber@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
the food poisoning is so worth it
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Uh, what? You do know you can cook pizzas at different temps to affect crust consistency, and that as long as meats are cooked to a proper internal temperature, bacteria is killed?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’m not expert in Fahrenheit but that difference doesn’t feel like it’d make a difference
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 months ago
More than that, the temperature gradient inside the oven is far greater than that difference
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 3 months ago
I agree with most of that, but I have been in Phoenix, AZ in ~42°C. Sure it wasn’t pleasant, but I’m not dead.
Slovene@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Dry heat vs moist heat
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 3 months ago
At those temperatures, it’s dangerous either way with dry having a slight benefit of being able to do mist cooling better than moist (30° F cooling vs 5-10° F cooling), but that requires water… Phoenix is in a desert
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is a slight exaggeration, but I know here in Australia if you went out in 42C with no sun protection then yeah, you’re not having a good time and it is a risk to life.
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 3 months ago
In July 2023 in Phoenix on the 20th and 25th it was 119° F or 48.3° C. Not as much an exaggeration as I would like it to be.
It’s regularly 79° F to 107° F or 26° C to 41° C in Phoenix in summer. Lately it’s been hotter (past 5 years)
At those temperatures, dry or wet, it’s still gonna be dangerous.
Not trying to argue here, but the fact those were both last year should be enough of an indication to our political “leaders” that climate change is a major threat.
Source: Extreme temps from weather.gov
Slovene@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Not trying to argue here
Why not, you coward?! Fite me!
But, seriously, no one is gonna argue that, here on lemmy, you’re just preaching to the choir.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 months ago
at 10 c i’m wearing 2 pairs pants and 2 light jackets.
EfreetSK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also let me point out one nice feature here - the freezing point is 0. Bellow it you can expect snow instead of rain, ice on the road, sidewalk, plants are in danger, etc. A lot of things and situations in your life are affected by this simple fact that water freezes so it’s nice that we have it at 0.
Fahrenheit has 32°F …
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
And water boiling at 100C is useful too because boiling water is used so often in cooking.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I gotta ask, do you use a thermometer to boil water?
Metric is a more coherent system, but let’s not pretend it’s magic or more than it is.
The numeric value associated with boiling water has no impact on cooking, because the boiling water doesn’t care.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
No, but I use a thermometer (built into the electric kettle) to prepare tea. Greens want to be brewed at 75-80C. Whites are often about 70C. Oolongs are about 95C.
But the human who is doing the cooking might care.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Well, it usually doesn’t actually start to freeze and snow at 32/0. It’s usually got to be below freezing for a while before it gets icy, and it’ll often snow above freezing and sleet below. It’s usually more dangerous if it’s above freezing because the layers of melting ice make the unmelted ice far more slick.
It’s why for weather information, it really doesn’t matter what scale you use so much as knowing where those bands are on the scale you use.
The peril is a gradient, so the actual number that matches freezing really doesn’t matter.
At least that’s my take as a person who lives somewhere where cold weather conditions are a frequent topic of conversation.
The temperature itself doesn’t start to get perilous until you’re in the negatives on the Fahrenheit scale, or -17C.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Exactly. My car warns me about freezing conditions starting at 37 F.
xradeon@lemmy.one 3 months ago
Eh, it’s just exchanging what brain cells are used to remember what.
With Fahrenheit you need brain cells to remember that 32F is freezing point of water. With Celsius, you need brain cells to remember that 40C+ is super hot outside.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
But, with Fahrenheit you also need brain cells to remember that 90F is super hot outside.
variants@possumpat.io 3 months ago
The most I use in temperature is setting the air conditioner at work from 68 to 70 or 72 depending how hard I’m working