0 is freezing point. Anything below zero is relative to anything above zero. Without getting in to a science lesson there is nothing more to it.

 

We might start to use Kelvin scale instead of Celsuis and Fahrenheit on this forum (j/k)

 

That's good to know, and sounds like an easy system. I just mean that if you say it's 20 degrees Celsius I have no idea what that feels like. But I do know that 75 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal temperature, pretty much.

 

Well 0 is freezing point for water and 100 is boiling point and 50 would be half way to boiling. That makes sense to me. Now if 212 F is boiling and 32 F is freezing wouldn't 90 F be half way to boiling? When I convert it to celcius it is 122 F. I get lost on the scale for fahrenheit. Maybe someone can explain it to me. Please let me know if my conversions are wrong. I am useing a convert program.

and I agree 75 fahrenheit is ideal it is almost 24 celcius. 20 celcius is 68 fahrenheit. It is hard when you grow up with one and are subjected to another.

 

I guess that also means the temperature on your ovens are in Celsius. Our ovens start at about 250 and end at 600. All cooking instructions on packages also say Fahrenheit. I'm sure you must get some of the same food as us and there aren't two cooking temperatures on the packages. Are your ovens listed in Celsius or Fahrenheit and do you have to convert when you cook something?

I know we have gotten far off topic but I find this discussion very interesting.

 

In Russia ovens are in Celsius and they have 100-250°C range. All recipes are also in Celsius

 

Mine reads both. Go figure. The break down seems to be that many of the products like ovens and Shake 'n' Bake hahaha are made in the USA. However I think all products that are made for use in Canada have to have the writing in both english and french... (don't even get me started on that) and I think at that time they put it in celcius and fahrenheit as well.

 

If a more experienced indivual (that means I'm old) can but in. C X 1.8 + 32 = F. 0 C X 1.8 = 0 + 32 = 32F Wow it worked. Water freezes 0 C or 32 F. Try it again. 100 C X 1.8 = 180 + 32 = 212 F. It worked again. Water boils 100 C and 212 F. Now being just math, I wouldn't try to insult anyones intelligence. Or would I. Kids, send them to school, buy them books and all they do is eat the teacher. Lucky kids.

 

I'm not old (no really), but I'm old enough to not have been taught Celsius in school. Or at least I can't remember back that far.

 

I graduated high school in 2001 and I do remember them glancing over the metric conversions in my later science classes but not enough to get a firm understanding of it. I think, in general, the metric system is much easier to use but like Sean stated- if you aren't brought up with it, it is hard to understand.