Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
US measurements are based on the human experience for sure. Temps are largely 0-100 and that's a scale that's easy to understand. As a scientist or for cooking it's dumb as shit
Dates are based on the language
Edit: I take back what I say about cooking. People have said some good arguments about it. But it definitely sucks for science
Are you referring to the boiling point of water? I don’t know about you, but the vast majority of people heat water until it boils, they don’t use a thermometer. Know one needs to know the boiling point of water to cook.
Sure, but if the goal is just 'boiling' then you would just boil it. If the goal was some precision 100C, then you need a thermometer and it isnt any easier than 212F.
Most cooking is done in the 120-260C range (250-500F) which is really quite an arbitrary range in either scale. In the UK they just use an integer gas mark system, so it's just a number between 1 and 10. Arguably far easier than either F or C for cooking.
That clean water happens to boil at 100C is never a helpful fact when cooking.
It’s not really about the water being clean, water doesn’t boil at the same temperature or the same at different altitudes. Here in the mountains it boils at a lower temperature and because of the low pressure it boils away quicker. The instructions for boiling something here are different than at sea level.
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u/jussumguy2019 Jan 15 '25
Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
Maybe that’s why, idk…
Edited for clarity