[HPFGU-OTChatter] Measuring (was Re: Cocoa-Cola Cake)

[John Walton]

Jen Faulkner wrote:

> One of the most confusing things, I've found, is how the measurements
> for temperature to cook things at are completely different (something
> about gas settings?)...  on PBS, they usually subtitle those sorts of
> things, and measurements in general...  and of course, PBS is my
> means of exposure to most things British, other than literature...  :)

Ah, that would be the Gas Mark settings. Most (if not all) British
ovens/stoves/ranges/whatevers which run off gas (no, not gasoline/petrol)
measure heat by "Gas Marks". I have no idea how many Gas Marks there are --
6-10 IIRC -- having never owned a gas oven/range/yadda/yadda.

I'm sure that, somewhere, there is an internet site which will give
measurement translations. Unfortunately, my web browser is as dead as Nancy
Stouffer's literary career, so I can't go hunt :(

--John
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John Walton                 john at walton.to

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distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
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