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What is Medium Heat BTU wise?
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Sheldon
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> If a recipe calls for cooking something at medium heat and you have
> four different burner ratings, 15k, 12k, 9k etc what defines medium?
> i.e is it 7.5k, 6k or 4.5k? Or are the dials calibrated somehow so
that
> medium is always medium but high changes with the burner (seems
> unlikely) or am I missing the point somewhere along the line...
You're not indicating the "volume" of that which you're cooking nor the
*time* for which it is cooked.
BTUs have nothing to do with cooking *temperature*... a BTU is a
*quantity* of heat, not a particular temperature.
British Thermal Unit : the quantity of heat required to raise the
temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at a specified
temperature (as 39=B0F)
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