so, I had a thought
May. 21st, 2010 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthbecause this is a new thought to me, and because everything else today has been kind of a wash, I will pass this on.
So, I'm making pizza, right? And because I have a pizza stone, but totally lack a peel, getting the pizza from preparation surface to oven is always something of a challenge. (Getting it back out, in case you were worried, or have never made and/or eaten pizza, is fine, because the crust doesn't stick to the stone, and holds together such that I can just pull it back out.)
It's usually about the point where I'm maneuvering the dough that I think that I really should just make a calzone to get my bread + cheese fix, but it's really not the same.
So, for today's attempt, I decided to just put the crust down on the stone, and spread the toppings posthaste. It turns out that standing over an open 500ºF oven? Is really quite warm. Which brought me to the Thought:
When you are describing how expensive something is, for instance, you could say that it's twice as expensive, in addition to describing its price in absolute currency terms.
If someone described something as "twice as hot," what would you think they're referring to? Because, let's say I wanted to describe the oven as twice as hot as boiling water, in terms of mentally qualifying how hot it felt. But then, perhaps, as boiling water is roughly 100ºF above body temperature, which is my basis for something feeling hot or cold, perhaps a 500ºF oven is four times as hot.
Of course, I can't remember trying to describe relative temperature with any sort of accuracy, ever. There's probably a reason for this. This will come back to haunt me when I want to say it's twice as hot in the sun as it is in the shade, next time I'm working outside.
So, I'm making pizza, right? And because I have a pizza stone, but totally lack a peel, getting the pizza from preparation surface to oven is always something of a challenge. (Getting it back out, in case you were worried, or have never made and/or eaten pizza, is fine, because the crust doesn't stick to the stone, and holds together such that I can just pull it back out.)
It's usually about the point where I'm maneuvering the dough that I think that I really should just make a calzone to get my bread + cheese fix, but it's really not the same.
So, for today's attempt, I decided to just put the crust down on the stone, and spread the toppings posthaste. It turns out that standing over an open 500ºF oven? Is really quite warm. Which brought me to the Thought:
When you are describing how expensive something is, for instance, you could say that it's twice as expensive, in addition to describing its price in absolute currency terms.
If someone described something as "twice as hot," what would you think they're referring to? Because, let's say I wanted to describe the oven as twice as hot as boiling water, in terms of mentally qualifying how hot it felt. But then, perhaps, as boiling water is roughly 100ºF above body temperature, which is my basis for something feeling hot or cold, perhaps a 500ºF oven is four times as hot.
Of course, I can't remember trying to describe relative temperature with any sort of accuracy, ever. There's probably a reason for this. This will come back to haunt me when I want to say it's twice as hot in the sun as it is in the shade, next time I'm working outside.
