Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done?

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• ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  There’s no way Fahrenheit ovens are more accurate than Centigrade, and they use 10s and are like half as accurate anyway

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because less than 5 is not significant and doesn’t matter.

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  • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’d also be surprised, if most ovens could even regulate the temperature that accurately…

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  • Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, to expand on your thought a bit, most ovens are lucky to hold ±5° of set temp anyways.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Absolutely, our oven is very old, and we generally have to run it 10°C above what the recipes say.

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    • klugerama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      And to expand on that, even the nominal temperature is more of a “middle” temperature. Depending on the size, the temperature of most standard size home ovens will vary by as much as 50° F between top and bottom. Convection ovens help to mitigate this, but the recipe needs to account for that.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not even really 5° increments, it’s typically 25°. Ovens can’t really hold temp much more precisely than that, and even if they could you wouldn’t notice much of a difference. 342° is gonna behave basically the same as 359°.

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Incidentally, I always set my oven to a weird number because it has a digital screen which lets me do that. I paid for those that trailing 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 and 9, so I’m definitely going to use it.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      If you really want to get your money’s worth it should always end in 8

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• SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  that’s not base 5. That’s just increments of 5… in base 10.

  base 5 would be: 2400, 3000, 3300

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it makes more sense to mark 325, 350, 375, 400, and 425, on the knobs of the oven than 307, 337, 373, 401, 421, and 449.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yea but most ovens are digital now a days.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And I don’t think anyone would rather press the temp button 375 times to get to a reasonable cooking temperature.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What is “setting the the off at 350” supposed to mean?

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think off is supposed to be oven

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I assume a typo of “setting the oven”

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    • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was. My mistake. Thank you for catching it…no sarcasm…Any way everyone have a great and wonderful weekend.

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