That said, all our appliances (oven, barbecue) use Fahrenheit and I have no idea what temperature to cook at in celcius.
It surprised me when we recruited a developer from Canada, and on his second day at work he asked what temperature he should have set the oven to. I learned that Canada has appliances labelled in "American".
180°C is the most common oven temperature required, outside 160-200°C is unusual for normal cooking.
Canadian here, 325-450F is the typical range I've needed to use, pizzas are often what I cook at those hotter temps. That's about 160-230C.
There's a surprising inconsistency in Canada for units because of our proximity to the US. For body weight and height, nearly everyone uses lbs and feet/inches, but official records (on my driver's license for example) uses kg and cm. Like you said, most appliances are F. Distances are in km but property sizes are still often in sqft (because lots of products come from the US). The list goes on.
It seems that in the extreme ranges of numbers (150+), the propensity for errors or confusion between the two scales gets riskier .
I was having an online discussion with someone in an electronics forum the other day, and we were talking about the ideal temperature for a soldering iron for a contact point using a particular type of solder and potentiometer.
He kept talking about setting the iron at 300 degrees. Now, my iron DOES have a setting up to 400 degrees, but in Celsius. He was talking in Farenheit, and had I not double checked with him, I would have fried my electronics to a crisp.
Do dial temperatures actually correlate to internal temperatures accurately at all? From what I've seen it differs wildly from oven to oven and you're better off just learning where the low, medium and high spots are.
Sure. Roast vegetables and bread for example I almost always do in the 200-250 range. Roast meat and fish I often do between 85-150, or 220-250 if I'm finishing them in the oven. Sometimes I'll start at 250 and then finish at 150.
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It surprised me when we recruited a developer from Canada, and on his second day at work he asked what temperature he should have set the oven to. I learned that Canada has appliances labelled in "American".
180°C is the most common oven temperature required, outside 160-200°C is unusual for normal cooking.
Canadian here, 325-450F is the typical range I've needed to use, pizzas are often what I cook at those hotter temps. That's about 160-230C.
There's a surprising inconsistency in Canada for units because of our proximity to the US. For body weight and height, nearly everyone uses lbs and feet/inches, but official records (on my driver's license for example) uses kg and cm. Like you said, most appliances are F. Distances are in km but property sizes are still often in sqft (because lots of products come from the US). The list goes on.
It seems that in the extreme ranges of numbers (150+), the propensity for errors or confusion between the two scales gets riskier .
I was having an online discussion with someone in an electronics forum the other day, and we were talking about the ideal temperature for a soldering iron for a contact point using a particular type of solder and potentiometer.
He kept talking about setting the iron at 300 degrees. Now, my iron DOES have a setting up to 400 degrees, but in Celsius. He was talking in Farenheit, and had I not double checked with him, I would have fried my electronics to a crisp.
Do dial temperatures actually correlate to internal temperatures accurately at all? From what I've seen it differs wildly from oven to oven and you're better off just learning where the low, medium and high spots are.
Ive always thought ovens could do fine with a five setting control.
Warming (180-200F)/90C
Low 300F/150C
Med 350F/180C
High 400F/200C
Broil
A High of 400/200 seems quite low. I'd definitely want a Very High of ~230-250 as well.
350 to 375 is pretty significant of a gap over several hours.
outside 160-200°C is unusual for normal cooking.
Huh? I probably do more than 50% of my cooking outside that range.
In an oven?
I gave the temperatures based on my experience of cooking "normal" things, like roast meat, roast vegetables, chips, bread and cake.
They happen to correspond to Wikipedia's idea of "Moderate" temperatures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oven_temperatures
Sure. Roast vegetables and bread for example I almost always do in the 200-250 range. Roast meat and fish I often do between 85-150, or 220-250 if I'm finishing them in the oven. Sometimes I'll start at 250 and then finish at 150.
225°C is the standard for most frozen pizzas, fries, pretty much anything, really.
My temperatures are for a fan-assisted oven, you can add 20°C for a 'normal' oven.
Although, I've never owned an oven without a fan-assist.
(And for what it's worth, Tesco's frozen pizza and chips should be cooked at 180°C and 200°C respectively, or 200°C and 220°C without a fan oven.)
Some pastries go even higher than this, like 250° C