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Like, I'm looking at these recipes and it's like, "medium-high heat", like what the fuck is that? Where is that?

And then I find one that's like "yeah, so-and-so celsius", and Iook at my stove and it's like, where is that on the dial?? I like, have no indication for that, what the fuck it's just dots between HI and LOW, where?????? Where the fuck are you talking? Holy shit cooking sucks.

>> No.14815329

now this is autism

>> No.14815342

>>14815329
You know I'm right on this, you know I'm right.

>> No.14815350

>>14815342
I know anon's more right then you are

>> No.14815368

>>14815322
This annoys me too. Plus Americans using shit like cups and spoons for measuring solids. What they fuck do you mean by a cup of flour, a heaped cup, a compacted cup, a level cup? It's all different weights!

>> No.14815405

>>14815322
There isn't a reliable way to measure heat on the stove that would apply to gas, electric and induction and whatever kind of pans people would use. I suppose you could get a meat thermometer and touch the bottom of your pans with it, but I doubt a recipe that would actually mention stove temperatures was accurate to start with.

Trial and error is the key to learning cooking.

>> No.14815414

>>14815342
If you can't extrapolate "medium-high heat" into a percentage, you're hopeless.

>> No.14815425

>>14815322
the short answer is that instructions are ambiguous because cooking is not an exact science. The more experience you get, the more you learn how much you can deviate from given instructions and still be fine.

>> No.14815440

imagine being filtered by medium-high lmao fucking retard

>> No.14815446

Ability to cook is directly proportional to your love of food.

>> No.14815454

>>14815322
Medium high is between high and medium.

>> No.14815459

>>14815322
It's not hard to figure out if you know your stovetop.

>> No.14815462

>>14815322
The stove's dial does not directly relate to a temperature your cookware will be at. It's power and the temperature of anything you put on it is going to change based on thousand different factors.

Besides, unless you're doing very specific things with sugar and chocolate precision doesn't fucking matter.

>> No.14815499

>>14815322
>And then I find one that's like "yeah, so-and-so celsius", and Iook at my stove
If the recipe gives you an temperature, you're supposed to look at the oven knobs, you moron.

>> No.14815570

cook like you're using the force, as in, fucking learn how to get the feel
people have cooked for literally millennia without any thermometers and only the tools at their disposal
salt to taste because table salt is different from kosher is different from sea salt
most ovens aren't accurate or even. you put the knob at 350 maybe it's 320 maybe 400. what do you do? you figure out if your oven tends to go over or under then adjust your recipes as needed. or you get a thermometer for the oven

taste as you go and check on your food every once in a while. follow that and most food is hard to fuck up

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>>14815329
Indeed. My asperGF can only bake since it's more straightforward/precise with measurements and oven temps than general cooking.

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14815578

>tfw med-high heat

>> No.14815582

>>14815322
Just get good.

>> No.14815591

>>14815322
> "medium-high heat", like what the fuck is that? Where is that?
>it's just dots between HI and LOW
You answered yourself didn't realize that? Are you really that much of a spazzed retard?

>> No.14815623

>>14815591
>>14815440
Bruh you sniff s0y milk

>> No.14815626

>>14815623
Soy is not censored on /ck/ go back to your board fucking dumbass
>Durrr I can't realize how to put my stove on medium high Hurrrrrr

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14815655

>>14815322
Most dials on the stove go between 1 through 9 right?
Nigga, just put it between 6 and 7. Past the half-way point between 4 and 5(medium) but not anywhere near 9 (high).
There, medium-high. How hard is that?!

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14815726

>>14815623
huuuurrrr muh s0y s o y soy heckin soynerino soyboys seethe u mad lmao wojack soysoy hustle and bustle huuuurrrrr oh no what shall we ever do you said soy

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>>14815322
it's vague because there's a shitload of room for error
if you can't figure it out that's all on you my dude

>> No.14815736

>>14815655
>>14815322
>celsius
>Most dials on the stove go between 1 through 9 right?
Well, in fucking euro land they do.

>> No.14815932

>>14815322
cooking and baking is alchemy for the soul, you have to induldge to get it and be above avg IQ

>> No.14815933

>>14815322
>Where is that?
it's not that important, it just means something above medium since ever stove is going to be different, and no one is going to measure the exact heat because no one else is going to have proper equipment to set for that heat you autistic moron.

>> No.14815942

>>14815368
a cup has always meant a level cup, it has never meant anything else. dipshit.

>> No.14816008

>>14815368
>It's all different weights!
dafuq? I've never seen anywhere in the world say anything but a level cup
very rarely will they specify a heaping cup but that's why they *specify*

>> No.14816154

>>14815414
Not OP, but I struggle with this shit cause my stove is hot as hell.
High is like 4 on that stove. Idk when Id ever use 9-5.

>> No.14816176

>>14815322
Medium high means about 75% power you turbotard