Things in recipes that amuse you

AnnPT77 wrote: »

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

JetJaguar wrote: »

The only recipe conversion that annoys me is that sometimes I'll find older recipes from the UK that give oven temperatures in terms of "gas marks". Mostly it just offends my sensibilities as an engineer, because it's an arbitrary scale that doesn't directly relate to any real, physical unit.

But...but...what if you have a gas oven? They still work using regulo marks, not with a Celsius or Fahrenheit scale.

I grew up using a gas oven and there are still occasions where my brain goes back to ‘that cooks at Regulo 5 - so that’s 190°C’ 😂

Not in the US, they don't, at least not ones from the past 40+ years I've been an adult. They have a thermostat, and you set them in degrees F. I've never seen a gas oven with Regulo settings here. (Not saying they've never existed. Don't know.)

That’s interesting! After I typed that post I googled to check, because I’ve not actually seen a gas oven for some years. Looking at the U.K. stores that sell such things and examining the images I saw that they’re still sold with Gas Mark dials here.