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.
(Possibly OT) oven temperature question
Oct 12, 2015
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Has Wikipedia passed you by?
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?
Smoke some more weed.
No
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Go learn how to use it Ronaldo.
No I ask you're wife. :)
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)
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
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:
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Perhaps Scott meant Google. In which case, try this.
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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 Sun is pretty hot to , don't ya know
Gas Mark 25000.
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.
Yes. Gas mark 5 is 500C Gas mark 10 is hyperspace. FFS
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
She said that she doesn't speak to strange men. I'm the exception.
Thanks, appreciated.
Anything over gash mark 5 and you can put the pork sausage in the oven.
Cooking times are variable.
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