Help with C to F cooking temps

[Tiny]

I've got a recipe written for someone cooking in the UK.  It's a simple  Toad in the Hole recipe... and yeah, celcius to fahrenheit should be straight forward...but having  dealt  with a 1940's stove and old time recipes makes me very aware of the differences when there shouldn't be any differences.      My stove has 'slow' and 'fast' as markings for the heat on the oven (along with the traditional temps for example) and some of my old timey recipes call for a 'slow' or 'fast' oven.   So, I have a good grasp of how my oven heats/cooks and how recipes vary and how directions are sometimes subjective. 

So, for anyone using or who has used a stove/oven where you'd heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7   for a recipe -- what does that mean for someone cooking with with a gas oven with Fahrenheit temps?   The Celcius conversion puts me at about 425 and 400,  and my cooking experience (and what I'm expecting the recipe to do) sez I probably want a 400 F degree oven for this recipe.     What's with the 'fan' and 'gas 7' ??  is the difference because of a convection oven versus gas oven?? 

I'm comfortable with the other conversions I have to make - just the oven temp has me a bit stymied.   I'm only cooking this once and I don't want to mess it up too badly. 


I know you guys can help.   



 

[swamp]

Divide by 5, multiply by 9,.add 32

Or multiply by 2 and add 30.

[Tiny]

Mar 14, 2014 16:15:22 GMT -5 swamp said:

Divide by 5, multiply by 9,.add 32

Or multiply by 2 and add 30. 

You shook the Magic 8 Ball - didn't you?!?  

For math and conversions the GOOGLE KNOWS ALL.

[justme]

I'm guessing, wild stab here, that it's different temps for different types of ovens. So fan (convection, or just an elective oven?) is one temp and gas is at a lower temp. Not sure what the 7 means.

[mmhmm]

Here ya go, Speck:

220C = 200C fan = 425F = Gas mark 7

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[Tennesseer]

And save this link for every type of conversion:  cooking, currency, angles, area, clothing (from different countries), etc.

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[Deleted]

I'm American and I live in France. I use US / UK / Fr recipes but my oven is in C.

You can just google the conversion. Google "220C into F" and you'll get the answer.

ETA: I'm not trying to be unhelpful! I could have given you the answer (I'd have to google it lol), but I wanted you to know that you can google it now and for any recipes in the future.

[Deleted]

Yes "Fan" = convection oven. In C recipes, the temps are generally 20° lower for a fan / convection oven.

[Tiny]

Thanks for the links and the other info! Just wanted to be sure there wasn't some sort of implied "everybody knows this!" magic that didn't get mentioned in the oven temps from the recipe.

I'm not always the brightest when it comes to implied "everybody know this!" kinda knowledge