How hard is it to add c or f to the end of a tempreture
How the hell are people supposed to know if you are using celsius or fahrenheit
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When would you be confused by cooking temperatures? Nobody cooks anything below about 225F which would be for low and slow smoking generally. Anything else is probably 300+. I’m wondering at what overlap point you’d need further clarification.
A first time baker in the US who followed a European recipe could conceivably end up with warm dough.
You meant a “first time idiot who can’t notice that the oven is still cold”.
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The experiment occurred at a cool -40 degrees.
Kelvin? Oh god! Below absolute 0!!!
Fun fact: there’s no degrees Kelvin since it’s an absolute scale.
Kelvin is an absolute unit.
What do you mean? Thought it started at 0 degrees (absolute 0) and just scaled up?
In short, in formal writing you omit the word degrees because the unit is simply kelvin.
I have been guilty of this but I will change!
From now on, I will be sure to specify that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees fahrenheit and of a square is 360 degrees celcius.
If I said it was a comfortable 22 degrees, there’s really only one unit I could be referring to.
A chilly -40 in Siberia
Obviously f, that’s the ideal fall temperature.
Fahrenheit!
Kelvin!
“I’m only comfortable at absolute zero.”
“Cold? It’s not cold outside! It’s only getting cold when you can see the helium snow.”
25°C is (according to a british youtuber) hot in england. 25°C is getting out jumpers/hoodies for me in australia.
You’d be more comfortable at -5C?
Context clues
The weather today is nice at 22, but back home it was -10 last week.
I’m in Europe and traveling. How do you figure out the second? If I am American it’s not going to be converted, so that would be F, almost every else would be C.
Context can’t help you in a lot of situations.
22 would rarely be nice in F unless (context clues) we’re in a bad winter but going to a much worse one.
Yeah the first one you can get context from the current weather, but the second is the one that lacks any context without additional conversation. You know what provides the context easier? Saying Celsius of Fahrenheit.
I mean I guess. Someone who switches systems between sentences sounds like a deranged outlier though.
It is incredibly tough to have conversations with Americans who think local means their units yes.
They don’t even realize they do it, it’s 22c where they are, so that’s what they refer to, but back home they use their local units there. Both are local, they aren’t changing anything like a deranged lunatic. They just fuck it up since they never denote units ever.
Simple concept really.
True lol
Where would you be living if 22F is considered nice weather?
Somewhere where it gets to -10F. That’s like the difference between 50F and 80F
100 degrees
Tell me if that’s in fahrenheit or celsius
Hint: it has nothing to do with the weather
Well you haven’t given the context. We can’t guess the context and the units.
If somebody has a fever of 100, F. If you’re cooking, C. If it’s weather, F.
You’re cooking, so boiling water
Didn’t say I was cooking either
There’s other things outside of cooking that are very tempreture cooking like science for example
I assume people are using the superior Celsius.
I assume when talking to Americans that they’re using Fahrenheit. Damn near everyone else uses Celcius.
People who use farenheit are infuriating
I like C because it is 0 at freezing 100 at boiling but I like F because the degrees are smaller units. The only thing that bothers me is when the news says our 90F feels like 110F. The ‘heat index’ or ‘wind chill’ expression of temperature drive me crazy because 90F by definition feels how it feels outside, nobody lives in a climate controlled box.
Until recent years, there was no reason to be ther since you mostly talked to people near you
But I don’t see how it matters: in normal conversation it’s usually obvious. I work with people in the UK a lot and there’s no impediment to conversations where they complain it’s 35° and I complain it’s 95°. We knots linens summer and we’re talking hot but livable conditions so it’s obvious what units were each using
We knots linens summer
So no confusion around temperature but you find other ways to confuse each other?
For sure, and I don’t even remember what I was trying to say there before Siri “corrected” it
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For Celsius I’m pretty sure I hear people say “C” right after they say the temps
lol maybe in the US
Is it ridiculous to include it? Or were you taught that? We were taught to include it, granted, we have to deal with metric and imperial measurements from imports, but why is it ridiculous to make sure you’re providing the right information?
I would laugh if my buddy told me it was going to be 90 f tomorrow. Obviously it’s Fahrenheit, it’s not possible to be 90 c where we are.
Sure but than you get in the habit of not adding it when it’s needed. I may be a little biased since almost everything I work with is imperial in a metric country, but my buddies would laugh with me since they know the distinction is important to us.
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Most people not in the US need to deal with both in most casual conversations. So they need to clarify almost all units.
I’m in a trade, almost every material is imperial in my metric world. Everyone I deal with with knows the confusion that can happen, so it’s always unit denotions on everything.
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On the same vein of your last point, start talking about the weather that isn’t right at that second, now confusion can seep in.
“Today is nice at 22, but man back home it was -10 last week.” “Oh thats right, that last one is Fahrenheit since that’s local to me. What’s that in Celsius?”
Its a balmy 273° today
Or K. Everybody always forgets K.
Being in Canada when talking with very senior Canadians (from before metric times) or just People from the US, I know they are talking in American Freedom Units when it comes to this. When they say anything high 90s I suspect we aren’t talking about almost boiling water. Pretty much any number above 50 and I’m fairly sure they are still talking in American.
I also know when it comes to 37 in Phoenix in the first weekend of April it’s time to head back north to cooler temperatures of the mid 20s. I also know an American might think I meant Alaska with those numbers for April so it can get a little tricky there but it’s only the weather and not a lab experiment.
Things become more confusing if you are in Antarctica. I wonder how people deal with units there.
Cold, colder, and frostbite
At -40 there is no difference so it stops mattering very much
I find it’s typically Americans who don’t put F down, if it’s about celcius it’s typically done. Probably a cultural me thing there.
So if it’s not denoted, usually safe to assume the measurement is imperial.
Always assume Kelvin and see where it goes
