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Hot oven

A hot oven is a kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting food at elevated temperatures.

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200 °C · temperature

Also 392 °F

Temperature · defined reference

Scale illustration of a hot oven, showing the recorded temperature.
Recorded temperature: 200 °C.

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Hot oven vs Boiling water: temperature comparison

The temperature of a hot oven is 100 K higher than the temperature of boiling water.

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Hot oven

A hot oven is a kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting food at elevated temperatures.

200 °CTemperature
0 K · absolute zero
Boiling water

Boiling water is water heated until it changes rapidly from liquid to steam at standard atmospheric pressure.

100 °CTemperature
0 K · absolute zero
Celsius and Fahrenheit zero points are offsets. Compare temperature differences, not ratios in °C or °F. The kelvin axis starts at absolute zero.
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Hot oven

Temperature: 200 °C; defined reference.

A defined 200 °C oven setting; air and food temperatures are different.

Defined examples — our methodology

The marked temperature is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.

Boiling water

Temperature: 100 °C; defined reference.

Fresh water at approximately one standard atmosphere. Altitude and pressure change the boiling point.

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The marked temperature is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.

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Why this measurement?

Why we use 200 °C

We compare the temperature of a hot oven. This is an illustrative comparison value, not a claim that every example is the same.

A defined 200 °C oven setting; air and food temperatures are different.

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PropertySelected valueRecorded rangeBasis
200 °CNot recordeddefined reference

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