(Possibly OT) oven temperature question

[Bod]

Do the marks on a gas oven dial relate to 100s of centigrade? ie: Gas mark 1 = 100 C 2 = 200 C etc. I've never seen what the graduations relate to in any cooker that we've ever bought.

[Scott M]

Has Wikipedia passed you by?

[Bod]

Wikipedia has been known to be wrong many times. If you know the answer, is it that hard for you to say yes or no?

[The Todal]

Smoke some more weed.

[Bod]

[The Todal]

No

[The Todal]

GOOGLE

Go learn how to use it Ronaldo.

[The Todal]

No I ask you're wife. :)

[Clive George]

On things like that, it's generally pretty good. It's also referenced, so you can check for yourself.

I think you can reasonably easily assume it's not 100s of C though. Gas mark 6, 600 degrees C, would be quite messy :-)

(Pizza ovens are 400 degrees or so)

[S Viemeister]

Gas Mark 1 app 140C Gas Mark 2 app 150C Gas Mark 3 app 170C Gas Mark 4 app 180C Gas Mark 5 app 190C Gas Mark 6 app 200C

[Chris Hogg]

It's a lot better than it used to be. Probably no more unreliable than any other encyclopedia these days. Here's the Wiki entry:

Perhaps Scott meant Google. In which case, try this.

The temperatures don't agree exactly with the Wiki figures, but they're within a few degrees, and oven thermostats are never that accurate anyway.

[The Todal]

The Sun is pretty hot to , don't ya know

Gas Mark 25000.

[Scott M]

Which means that you:

a) lack the ability to make value judgements of what you read (which going by Gas Mark 8 = 800C, seems to be about right)

b) seem to think an answer from people like me is more likely to be right than a peer-checked answer from people with too much time on their hands.

c) have never bothered reading anything (recipes, packets, instant meals) where they give oven settings in C, F & GM. I avoid cooking like the plague but know GM6 is 200C.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Yes. Gas mark 5 is 500C Gas mark 10 is hyperspace. FFS

[Nightjar]

We didn't use those funny foreign measurements when the gas mark was introduced.

Gas Mark 1 = 275F Gas Mark 2 = 300F Gas Mark 3 = 325F etc

[Bod]

She said that she doesn't speak to strange men. I'm the exception.

[Bod]

[Bod]

[Bod]

Thanks, appreciated.

[ARW]

Anything over gash mark 5 and you can put the pork sausage in the oven.

Cooking times are variable.