now you’re cooking
A handy reference for reading fiction that involves detailed descriptions of baking, roasting, and other oven-based cookery.
| Table of Equivalent Oven Temperatures1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Fuel | Electricity | Gas Mark (Regulo) | |
| ° Fahrenheit | ° Centigrade | ||
| Slow | 240–310 | 115–155 | ¼–2 |
| Moderate | 320–370 | 160–190 | 3–4 |
| Fairly hot | 380–400 | 195–205 | 5 |
| Hot | 410–440 | 210–230 | 6–7 |
| Very hot | 450–480 | 235–250 | 8–9 |
- Adapted from Elizabeth David’s Italian Food (p. 57), mostly so I can remember how to set a table in HTML. [↩]