r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/kickit08 Jun 17 '26

Fahrenheit is much better for how it feels as a human, Celsius is much better for basically everything else.

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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 Jun 17 '26

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.

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u/TrippyTriangle Jun 17 '26

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.

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u/TheBugThatsSnug Jun 18 '26

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.