"Posts from Australian and British readers showed no alarming results and I quickly realised something had gone awry in the American translation. As it turned out, the recipes had been converted in-house by the publisher, using a straightforward formula to change celsius to fahrenheit. What no one had noticed was that the conversion also needed to take into account the oven setting: fan-forced versus conventional heat. Many American ovens, it seems, still don't have a fan function."
"In Australia and the UK, baking is mostly metric: grams and millimetres rule, but tablespoons in Australia are 20ml while in the UK and US it is 15ml. It seems minor but that extra teaspoon can affect delicate batters or dough, so I often revert to teaspoons, which is 5ml in every country, to avoid any surprises. Australian plain flour is equivalent to American all purpose while the UK's strong flour is bread flour."
When Sweet was released in the United States in 2017, many bakers produced pale cakes with thick, dark exteriors because recipes were converted from Celsius to Fahrenheit without accounting for oven-setting differences. The conversion failed to adjust for fan-forced versus conventional heat, and many American ovens lack a fan function. Subsequent testing in Australia and the US showed that small differences in flour, sugar, cream and oven temperatures across countries affect baked goods. Measurement differences matter: Australian tablespoons are 20ml while UK and US tablespoons are 15ml; teaspoons are uniformly 5ml. Flour types and self-raising flour protein contents also vary between countries.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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