Also if they write 210° it's an angle not a temperature
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That kind of thing brings my blood to 100°.
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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
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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.
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Can I hijack this to complain about small town newspapers that don't specify the state? There are 88 cities, states, counties, or districts named "Washington". Is it so hard to clear up which one youre talking about?
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No one is cooking something in an oven at 180f nor 350c
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Same is true when people tell you their local time and not their time zone.
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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.
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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.
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