Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it
Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it
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Guess there's not much need. Most of the prefixes used are 1000 (kilo, mega, etc.) or 1/1000 (milli, micro, etc). The tens and hundreds are a bit odd to use and imo shouldn't be used. So there's no need to use prefixes until you're into Star temperatures or really extreme experiments.
Centicelsius has a nice ring to it.
It would be centidegree.
370 Centigree
That's ® worthy, fam.
Too close to centigrade, plus centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system.
There's nothing special about 3.7°C, but there nothing NOT special about it either. <.<
But that doesn't have a nice ring to it so...
Centicentigrade
centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system
What do you mean? The high today was 1.3 decicelcius where I’m at
Edit: decacelcius
You mean decacelsius?
Where I think they could be used is for in between temps. 1 degree centigrade covers a wide range when it comes to precision cooking like sous vide. Would be nice to drop to a smaller unit, but since metric can only work in multiples of ten, going down a level becomes overly precise.
The result is that I tend to prefer Farenheit for cooking, especially for sous vide. Unless you're doing molecular gastronomy shit, converting between units isn't that useful; you don't need to worry about how many Jules it's going to take to boil a given volume of water.
Conversely, grams are way nicer for measuring most things in the kitchen.