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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I saw an article where it was like, Washington on fire!
And I immediately thought we had another Jan 6 attack with MAGA terrorists. Nope. Just climate change setting the forests on fire in Washington state.
Also if they write 210° it's an angle not a temperature
Always cook facing away from the oven
Wait is that in degrees or gradians?
Did you just watch toolroom takeover too?
That kind of thing brings my blood to 100°.
I hate this so much, anyway, do you have a fever?
I would expect it to be a bit higher than 100° what with all the non-water stuff in there.
Not to mention altitude and pressure.
is there steam coming out of your ears?
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
That would be ideal but honestly I don't mind too much if someone just uses the °F or °C, i can convert it easly, it's annoying if they don't use any unit at all tho and expect me to just guess
True, however the "convert it easily" part is getting tricky as soon as you deal with seismic activities or radio nuclides.
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.
An unspoken rule of the Internet: If a post doesn't specify country, units, server, or time zone, and that information is relevant, then it was written by someone who is unaware of those things. You know, Americans.
I get what you're saying, but a realistic temperature for cooking only makes sense if you're familiar with cooking. I'm sure there was someone who was wondering why their cookies weren't cooking at 175° F or utterly annihilated them at 350° C. It's just a couple extra characters, anyway.
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No one is cooking something in an oven at 180f nor 350c
Not with that attitude
Lol.
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Same is true when people tell you their local time and not their time zone.
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I work in metric as an American, my industry is probably the only one that works in metric world wide. Temp is mixed
What industry is that?
Aerospace
My last project in aerospace with 100's of people was mostly Imperial. There is a lot of mixing of units and you can basically design your subsystem however you want. There was a mandate decades ago to go metric, but that has largely been ignored. It's the worst of both worlds!
My current project is just a couple people, so I mandated all metric. I have to spend a lot of money on tooling, but it is largely fine. I would say 10 years ago getting some fancy aerospace grade fasteners was easier in Imperial, less so today.
My mind still defaults to Imperial for very small dimensions like a 8 thou gap or something.
30+ years satellites, we are all metric. But as @FuglyDuck said it was a mixed team that mixed measurements that caused the failure.
We do everything in house so when parts\waveguide\antenna's\etc all gets ordered its all metric.
And I do agree 10+ years ago it was a nightmare to source but since we are international we could have bulk sent over from Europe and eventually Canada.
Oh I missed the "The worst of both worlds" part LOL I can imagine, I guess if it comes to modules they could be mixed as long as they can fit in the footprint of the engineering drawings :)
A lot of duel dimensioned drawings when you are interfacing.
I just have to be able to convert back and forth, sometimes in a single sentence: "we are using a 500mm X 450mm base made from 1/16" sheet metal."
Yeah I've been here, in the US so getting raw stock in metric is prohibitively expensive. So sheet metal is where it all falls down and makes me a bit of a fibber. We would convert it to mm for the final drawings.
Before CNC's were common I can tell you some horror stories going to a local machine shop needing it all in metric and you could hear the modem noises in their heads. We would bring them metric micrometers and scientific rulers to help them along. Mind you this was in the late 90's and they were masters of their art, but metric wasn't the norm in their world.
Didn’t that happen because of the Mars Climate Observer crashing? Caused by a us team using pounds-force-seconds where nasa expected newton-seconds (sending it hurtling towards mars at a too-low dip into the atmosphere)
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.
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?
Well that was mostly an example, i never made cookies so i just said a random number
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.)
Well, i am not a chemist, i just know a handful of stuff that i can use in everyday life, eg: using hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stained on clothing
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