Well I've just bought a water bath fr sous vide cooking experiments (really really want to make scotch eggs with liquid yolk centres).
So i now have a reasonable sized container of water that i can accurately set to any temperature
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zyon-Premium-Sous-Water-Cooker/dp/B010671LE0/ref=sr_1_1?...lol it's gone up by £4 since i bought mine a few days ago
So I'll probably have ago at the leather hardening thing fairly soon
Quote:Both Fahrenheit and Celsius were based on the freezing and boiling points of water. The scale you're talking about was never adopted.
oh really ?
How do you account for the fact that 100f is the body temp of a hot (metabolically) woman then.
Or the fact that every single account of fahrenheit states that it's based on his wifes armpit temperature
Or indeed why 0 fahrenheit is NOT the freezing point of water but a good bit lower.
There's no way it's based on anything as sensible as the freezing and boiling of water. If it were - we'd call it the celsius system