People who don't say what tempreture unit they are using are infuriating
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
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.
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.
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.
I assume people are using the superior Celsius.
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
Or K. Everybody always forgets K.
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?
Its a balmy 273° today
Always assume Kelvin and see where it goes
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.
I recipe on TikTok said to cook the chicken in the oven at 180° but didn't specify c or f. So I baked the chicken at like 180° for like an hour and it was still raw. I raised the temp and it all worked out but I guess i should have been a bit sus
For future reference, the average temperature for baking is 180c or 350f. Anything under 300 is a pretty good indicator of it being Celsius. Unless it's something that is going to bake for 6+ hours, like brisket.
My physics teacher used to get mad at us. "2.63? ... 2.63 what?! Slug lengths?!"
I have heard that most of the Us Americans are living far away from the coast or border, and so they hardly know anything about the world outside. And since America is now great again, they think the outside is so much smaller than the inside.
/s
Those dolts make me hot under the collar, at least a good 20 degrees hotter I tell you.
No. You put “k” for Kelvin. Everything else is assumed to be Celsius and Fahrenheit should be abandoned.
What's the context here? I'm in canada where it's always Celsius unless you're cooking.
Pool water temperature is also in farenheit, for some reason.
I never noticed that. This would confuse me.
100 degrees fahrenheit is way too low to be a cooking temperature ¯(ツ)/¯
I've never seen anybody use Celsius for cooking. I worked as a cook for five years and I've obviously been around cooking my whole life. It's always ferenheit.
I'm very curious what OPs situation is where they're getting confusing temperatures.
People who are using Fahrenheit are infuriating.
Don’t tempt us.
I love Fahrenheit, especially for weather. It's the only non metric unit I prefer. I just really enjoy it.
Edit: I'll always love the scale. Forever.
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.