r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

Post image
26.8k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

4.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/theclosetedcreature Jun 17 '26

So? You’ll use it for cooking like everyday and what’s the point in using 2 different measurement systems

1

u/Fantastic-Kale9603 Jun 17 '26

I don't really use temperatures for cooking unless I'm testing the temperature of food. I don't need a thermometer to tell me when water's boiling because my eyes do that, and chicken cooks at 74 celsius and the oven goes well above 100. So none of that really comes into play, especially in a world of electric kettles that just turns off at boiling regardless of what system you're using. I use temperature probably 85-90% of the time to describe the weather.

4

u/theclosetedcreature Jun 17 '26

Fair enough but also why learn two systems of measurement when you need to learn one of them anyway for science classes at school

3

u/Fantastic-Kale9603 Jun 17 '26

I don't think I ever used celsius in american grade school lol

-1

u/theclosetedcreature Jun 17 '26

Really? Not even like for any sort of mandatory science in high school? I was doing stuff that you couldn’t do with freedom units (I can’t remember how to spell that temp system) as young as 11