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Comment on xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions

The higher altitude, the lower the atmospheric pressure, and the lower the boiling point of water. At 3300, you were down to 207°f. I used to work at a restaurant at 8k feet and we were down to a boiling point of 195, which was enough to make things like, say brownies, noticeable dryer if you didnt compensate for the extra water boiling off durrong cooking.

We actually had a fancy oven for pastry that you could set the pressure inside of, allowing us to cook things as though at sea level.

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MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

207°f

I don’t know how much that is in the Boiling Water system

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- axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Meant to leave that context for for our metric friends, but my post was getting long so I shortened it. In Fahrenheit, water boils at 212°f and freezes at 32 at 1 atmosphere. (Sea level) the conversion rate is 1.8°f=°c (after subtracting those 32 ‘extra’ degrees)
  
  So at 207, his boiling point is only 5°f (3.33°c) lower than at sea level. Whereas where i was cooking, it was closer to 10°c
  
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- gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  97°c
  
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bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
7k here, I really need to invest in a pressure cooker.

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