Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it

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Guess there's not much need. Most of the prefixes used are 1000 (kilo, mega, etc.) or 1/1000 (milli, micro, etc). The tens and hundreds are a bit odd to use and imo shouldn't be used. So there's no need to use prefixes until you're into Star temperatures or really extreme experiments.

Centicelsius has a nice ring to it.

It would be centidegree.

370 Centigree

That's ® worthy, fam.

Too close to centigrade, plus centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system.

There's nothing special about 3.7°C, but there nothing NOT special about it either. <.<

centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system

Where I think they could be used is for in between temps. 1 degree centigrade covers a wide range when it comes to precision cooking like sous vide. Would be nice to drop to a smaller unit, but since metric can only work in multiples of ten, going down a level becomes overly precise.

The result is that I tend to prefer Farenheit for cooking, especially for sous vide. Unless you're doing molecular gastronomy shit, converting between units isn't that useful; you don't need to worry about how many Jules it's going to take to boil a given volume of water.

Conversely, grams are way nicer for measuring most things in the kitchen.

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