(Possibly OT) oven temperature question
Oct 12, 2015
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No Im whoever I want to be.
You're not The Todal.
Are you by the slightest chance another wodders nym?
Wodders is too stupid. I know who he is. He f***ed up on Severn Way. One day .........
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As Tim says. The Todal would NOT have typed as above.
In message , "Nightjar .me.uk"@?.?.invalid> writes
Gas Mark? Regulo, please :-)
I've often wondered why we need such daft ways to measure temperature. Have we not already got too many temperature scales without a type just related to gas ovens? Brian
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About nine months for a bun.
Owain
The "Regulo mark Number" was invented by the New World gas cooker company in the 1920's when they made the first gas cooker with a thermostatic control. The cooker was open to the air, the burner at the bottom rear vented combustion products out of the back. This created a temperature gradient in the oven (advertised as a "good thing", you could cook a whole meal requiring different temperatures at once by putting those needing more heat at the top and those needing least at the bottom. ) Most cooks wouldn't have been familiar with temperature scales, only with hot, not so hot and cool ovens. Having a single digit number on a dial was much easier than having to fit a 3 digit degF scale onto it. It also made using the different cooker levels easy, each shelf was about 1 regulo mark different from the one above or below.
It wasn't meant as a temperature scale rather as a cooking guide.
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