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It's a tool designed for professionals. Professionals operate with standards, so in a professional kitchen in America, you will never, ever need or want to read
by ruined 5y ago
It's a tool designed for professionals. Professionals operate with standards, so in a professional kitchen in America, you will never, ever need or want to read a temperature in Celsius. In the rest of the world, nobody will ever use Fahrenheit.
Having a button that changes it with a single press is actually an impediment to working quickly, and only introduces uncertainty and anxiety about the tool. Measuring temperature isn't like measuring weight - seconds matter. A moment of confusion could be enough to ruin a process, and a failure to notice the change in settings could create a dangerous situation. Nobody wants a button to see the wrong number.
Think of it like compile-time config. It's there, you can change it if you want, and everyone will have a preference, but if you need to change it often, you're not the target market.
In the rare consumer case in which you may be using foreign measurements you can change it once at the beginning of the recipe.
- 8note 5y agoI think if you could need to change it occasionally, you could easily be in situations where you change it frequently. Shadow kitchens that make recipes for multiple different restaurants could have measurements in both. To not have the button at all would make sense(compile time config), but if there are situations where you need to change it, those can come up as frequently as every time you use it
- ruined 5y agoNo. Every commercial kitchen complies with and is inspected for compliance with food handling regulations. Any recipe in commercial use is written specifically for the kitchen in which it is made. One might even consider them a complete vertical unit: if the recipe is designed as a chain or franchise standard, the kitchen standard is designed in tandem to match. You will not find a commercial kitchen in America using Celsius for anything. If you don't want professional tools don't buy them.
- TwoBit 5y agoThis idea that because a commercial kitchen doesn't mix F and C and thus nobody else should ever have to is ridiculous and is a form of gatekeeping. I download recipes and measurements are sometimes F, sometimes C. Sometimes ounces, sometimes grams. Sometimes cups, sometimes mls.