*** Answering a msg posted in area COOKING (Fido Cooking).
Hello DAVE!
Friday June 07 1996 00:30, DAVE SACERDOTE wrote to IAN HOARE:
 DS> Ian if you have the time could you do us a favor and post the Celsius
 DS> equivalent of various Gas Marks, please?
No trouble at all. I looked in MM to see what I had, but none of it was much 
use. What I've done therefore is to create a complete oven temperature 
reference "recipe". I don't know if you were aware of it, but french regulo 
settings are not the same as UK ones. that completely messed me up one time 
when I was cooking some pastry for a local hotelier. I set my usual regulo 
setting and of course, being a french pastry oven it was hotter and burnt the 
dish. GRRR. That's called finding out the hard way.
I have looked in a couple of my american cookbooks and couldn't find any Gas 
settings, so assume that you use fahrenheat over there. If you don't I'm sure 
you can easily lay your hand on the info.
As described in the "recipe", the temperatures are not exact, but functional 
equivalents. A temperature of 177C is not much help, if your oven temperature 
gauge goes 150 175 200! In effect, I've rounded to the nearest 5C. The gas 
regulo temps are exact equivalents of the Fahrenheat temperatures.
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  Oven Temperature functional equivalents.
   Fahrenheit     Centigrade    UK Regulo   French Regulo   Name
     210             100           --               1      Very slow
     225             110          1/4               2      Very Slow
     250             120          1/2               3      Slow
     275             135            1               3      Slow
     300             150            2               4      slow
     325             165            3               4      Very Moderate
     350             180            4               4      Moderate
     375             190            5               5      Moderately Hot
     400             200            6               5      Hot
     425             220            7               6      Hot
     450             230            8               6      Very Hot
     475             245            9               6      Very Hot
     500             260           10               7
     525             275            -               8
     550             290            -               9
  The above temperatures are not exact equivalents. To convert exactly
  from Fahrenheit to Centigrade (Celsius) (F-32)*5/9=C To convert
  exactly from Centigrade (Celsius) to Fahrenheit (C*9/5)+32=F.
  Chart by IMH Georges' Home BBS 2:323/4.4
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All the Best
Ian
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