As the title says, it’s mildly infuriating seeing someone say " cook this at 210° " and stuff like that, we are in a international context!! Do i have to put those cookies in the flames of hell or just around the boiling point of water?!
Edit: the cookie thing was just an example and i throw a random number lol
As with everything, we know it’s all the Americans’ fault. Joking. Halfway, anyway - they are a majority of the people who, internationally speaking, wanted to be all precious about this stuff. Although even if they didn’t, it’d still seem like “good practice” to include units anyway, though.
The cooking does tend to just be context, though, or at least “same as all the other recipes”. There’s only so many sane temps to pick for any given thing, and there’s a factor of ~2 between the two choices. E.g. if you were baking, 210° is either pretty hot or way too cool for most things.
An unspoken rule of the Internet: If a post doesn’t specify country, units, server, or time zone, and that information is relevant, then it was written by someone who is unaware of those things. You know, Americans.
I get what you’re saying, but a realistic temperature for cooking only makes sense if you’re familiar with cooking. I’m sure there was someone who was wondering why their cookies weren’t cooking at 175° F or utterly annihilated them at 350° C. It’s just a couple extra characters, anyway.
Sure. As I said, it makes sense to just… not be ambiguous. As for familiarity, I don’t think you really need it? You’ll have an inkling of where the recipe came from and be 90% sure most of the time. If not, searching for one more recipe means it’s suddenly really unlikely to still be unclear. No matter what you want you could search for non-US units to rule out/convert.
Familiarity would mean it’s even easier, you’ll go “of course this is baked at around 175°C like virtually all the other things like it” and almost certainly be right. Although baking is notoriously finicky…