0-100F is not base 10 at all, it's just what you grew up with. I grew with Celsius and I can easily feel the difference in a few degrees. TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example

Why would you do ±1°C if the sous vide can do decimals?

Also, the recipe calls for 130°F because it was made by an American, if you look for European recipes it will probably say 54°C. Neither will add decimals to their recipes because that's just being anal

I use F in the kitchen a lot because most of my appliances work in that and also because I basically learn to cook until I moved to the US, so again, what you are used to

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago

0-100F is not base 10 at all,

Umm, yes, it is. Zero and a hundred, and convention is to break up temperatures like "it's in the forties". It's all base 10.

TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example

Is it going to be 27C all day long? Is it going to be between 80 and 90 all day long? One is more likely than the other, and even if it's 78 in the morning, that's fine, doesn't make much difference.

Here, C is overly precise for the task.

Why would you do ±1°C if the sous vide can do decimals?

Because 130, a number with a zero at the end of it, is easier to deal with than 54.4.

This has an effect on UI, as well. Two buttons for going up or down. With F, you can do that in 1 or 0.5 degree increments. In C, it'd have to be 0.1, and you're pressing it more to get to where you want.

Also, the recipe calls for 130°F because it was made by an American, if you look for European recipes it will probably say 54°C.

Which will be wrong. Steak turns out differently with slight changes in temperature around this level. European recipes will have to go to 54.4C.

Neither will add decimals to their recipes because that’s just being anal

No, it's using sous vide properly. Precision is why you do it.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 1 points 7 months ago

TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example

Well this isn't really an accurate comparison. If they know an exact temperature, they would say it in both measurements. But they don't. So "in the 80s" is the perfect range. Preparing for 80 degrees is almost identical to how you would prepare for 89 degrees. There's no metric equivalent. The "20s" is way too big of a range. 20 vs 29 is a huge difference. Also, with it being base 10, you don't really need more information. 80 is 80% hot. Think of the hottest weather you've been in. 80 degrees is about 80% of that. And before you say "I've been in 115 degree weather". Yeah, so have I, I lived in arizona, and 115 is honestly not too much different than 100. After 100 it doesn't matter much. Same with below 0. But the 0-100 range, each degree matters quite a bit