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19196578 No.19196578 [Reply] [Original]

Why the fuck do Americans always say shit like "high heat" or "medium low heat"
Why not just give a fucking number?

>> No.19196584

>>19196578
they use symbols instead of numbers
same way they change words to make them easier to write
fucking childish lot.

>> No.19196588

Because those descriptions are usually reserved for stovetop instructions and the majority of stovetops don't have any thermometers or other heat indicators.

>> No.19196596

>>19196578
>anon doesn't realize it's referring to stovetops
based retard
historically most stovetop knobs just noted high/medium/low, though nowadays a numeric scale of 1-10 has gotten far more common

>> No.19196605

>>19196578
The stove dial has literal “low” and “high” labels, you fucking Somalian.

>> No.19196613

>>19196605
>>19196596
>>19196588
Mine has temperature

>> No.19196631
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19196631

>>19196578
My hob just has a range from high to low.

t. roo fucker

>> No.19196633

>>19196613
The vast majority don't sadly. Even less so if you have a gas open flame burner.

>> No.19196637

Heh
Americans actually use toxic gasses that are lit aflame to cook and not modern, clean electric coil stovetops
Heh heh

>> No.19196639

>>19196578
Unlike in communist countries, we have more than one choice of stove. Not all of them have the same labeling system.

>> No.19196644

>>19196578
what are you looking for? cubic feet of natural gas burned per minute? kilowatts of electricity consumed per hour? how would that help anything?

>> No.19196646

American hobs (and those in my country, too) lack numbers on the dials. There's no gas mark 4 for them, so they have to say 'high heat,' 'low heat' or 'medium heat.'

>> No.19196695

>>19196613
It's probably giving a generalization about the temperature that might be produced at that setting. See the disclaimer in the manual. Ultimately it's still just the lowest setting to the highest setting.

>> No.19196707

>>19196613
your machine is lying to you, giving you false comfort in order to pretend to be advanced. i hate the antichrist.

>> No.19196719

>>19196637
oh, plenty of people have electric ranges here. pretty much all the apartment dwellers.

>> No.19196739

>>19196613
most american ovens do as well, but the stoves are usually in numbers. but even in ovens the “medium-high, medium-low” should work just fine. people made great baked goods without any thermometers for many years, it just takes practice

>> No.19197087

>>19196578
Medium high is about 8
Low is probably 3 or so

>> No.19197091

>>19196578
...not everyone's stove has numbers on the dial

>> No.19197103

>>19196631
libtards will call him dumb but could never come up with a double entendre like that

>> No.19197261

>>19196613
And your IQ is room temperature

>> No.19197297

>>19196578
I'm so sick of foreigners and dumb frogposters

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19197322

>>19196578
>Put your campfire at 180 degree Celsius, pardner.

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19197331

The dials on the stove in my house start at Lo, then numbers 2-10, then Hi
So if you're boiling a pot of water you literally crank it up to 11

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19197345

>oi mite, you reckon that looks just aboot a 934 on the ol' hob, innit?

>> No.19197363

>>19196578
imagine being such a cooklet that you need to be told exact numbers, and can't simply use intuition

>> No.19197453
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19197453

>>19197363
most cookbooks from before the 20th century are so vague a lot of times they basically just say "cook it until it's done" because someone who's trained as a cook should just know without saying

>> No.19197478

>>19196578
American schools banned numbers for being racist

>> No.19197507
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19197507

>>19197103
driving around with literally any type of political messaging on your car is both fucking inane and stupid

why broadcast to the world what an idiot you are?

>> No.19197527

>>19197507
>cooker
will never take anyone who uses this psyop reddit term seriously
same faggots who complain about "importing yank culture" while wanking their dicks to blm and trannies

>> No.19197538

>>19196578
most people don't have infrared thermometers at home anon
most stoves are different, a gas burner is nothing like a camp stove
which is nothing like the shitty aging glass top in an average apartment
which is nothing like my granny's 50 year old electric coil stove that gets RIPPING fucking hot at "10"

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19197598

>>19197527
sounds like you're a bit triggered anon

>> No.19197697

>>19196646
how many heat settings do they have? 4? 5?