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  2. Fahrenheit - Wikipedia

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    Fahrenheit is used in the United States, its territories and associated states (all serviced by the U.S. National Weather Service), as well as the (British) Cayman Islands and Liberia for everyday applications. The Fahrenheit scale is in use in U.S. for all temperature measurements including weather forecasts, cooking, and food freezing ...

  3. Why Do We Still Use Fahrenheit? - AOL

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    300 years ago scientist Daniel Fahrenheit invented a temperature measurement — donning his last name. Once Fahrenheit came up with the blueprint for the modern thermometer, using mercury — he ...

  4. Why Americans Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius - AOL

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    It’s one of only three countries in the world that doesn’t use the metric system. You’d think that temperature would be something that pretty much the whole world could agree on a universal ...

  5. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    Degrees Fahrenheit are used in the U.S. to measure temperatures in most non-scientific contexts. The Rankine scale of absolute temperature also saw some use in thermodynamics. Scientists worldwide use the kelvin and degree Celsius. Several U.S. technical standards are expressed in Fahrenheit temperatures, and some American medical practitioners ...

  6. Metrication in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Use of the imperial system also persist where influenced by US trade and manufacture. Most kitchen appliances in Canada are labelled with both degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit, and metric cooking measures are widely available; but Fahrenheit is often used for cooking due to the import of kitchen appliances from the United States. When it comes to ...

  7. Low-temperature cooking - Wikipedia

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    Low-temperature cooking is a cooking technique that uses temperatures in the range of about 60 to 90 °C (140 to 194 °F) [1] for a prolonged time to cook food. Low-temperature cooking methods include sous vide cooking, slow cooking using a slow cooker, cooking in a normal oven which has a minimal setting of about 70 °C (158 °F), and using a combi steamer providing exact temperature control.

  8. 10 of the most common food-safety myths, debunked - AOL

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    The kinds of bacteria that cause food poisoning do not affect the look, smell, or taste of food. To be safe, FoodSafety.gov's Storage Times chart . 8) Once food has been cooked, all the bacteria ...

  9. Doneness - Wikipedia

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    Before cooking, the iron atom is in a +2 oxidation state and bound to a dioxygen molecule (O 2), giving raw meat its red color. As meat cooks, the iron atom loses an electron, moving to a +3 oxidation state and coordinating with a water molecule (H 2 O), which causes the meat to turn brown.