Recipes and Cooking Techniques

To make sure that food turns out as expected, control over the temperature at which it is cooked is critical. While most ovens and automated cookers have built-in thermostats, specially designed thermometers can be used to measure the temperature of sugar as it melts or meat as it cooks.

The standard unit of measurement for temperature is degrees Celsius, where 0°C is the freezing point of water, and 100°C is its boiling point.