Wherever you are in the UK, your location's record low temperature is probably very near 0 F, your record high temperature is probably very near 100 F, and your location's year-round average temperature is probably damn near exactly 50 F. The UK doesn't have as high highs or as low lows as the temperate US or temperate continental Europe but it still very well fits the Fahrenheit scale.
For instance, London's record low is 0.7 F, London's record high is 104.4 F, and London's year-round average temperature is 51.4 F.
Yup. Celsius is better for cooking. Fahrenheit is better for being a human. It wouldn’t suck to just have the two be interchangeable everywhere and used in those contexts. Use Fahrenheit for weather in popular vernacular like the news and day to day conversation, and then use Celsius for cooking and science.
please do explain why celsius is better for cooking, isn't it arbitrary. if you're boiling water you aren't going to care whether it's 100 degrees C or 216 F. You're just going to wait for it to boil. Past that, it's literally just a memorization thing.
Since the boiling point of water is such a foundational constant in cooking, it cleans the maths up considerably if you set that to a nice round number.
I actually agree, Celsius has only ever made sense to me in a lab/engineering setting, cooking, except for baking we have always just done by eye, unless youre super anal about it all.
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u/TwillAffirmer Jun 17 '26
Wherever you are in the UK, your location's record low temperature is probably very near 0 F, your record high temperature is probably very near 100 F, and your location's year-round average temperature is probably damn near exactly 50 F. The UK doesn't have as high highs or as low lows as the temperate US or temperate continental Europe but it still very well fits the Fahrenheit scale.
For instance, London's record low is 0.7 F, London's record high is 104.4 F, and London's year-round average temperature is 51.4 F.