Talk:Gas Mark
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I always thought the Gas Mark system was discontinued when North Sea Gas was introduced, since the different pressure threw the calibration out of alignment. Confirm/deny? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lee M (talk • contribs) 19:55, 2004 December 19
- It's still in use in the UK. They didn't replace all the gas ovens! 66.92.237.111 02:48, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
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- So that's why everything gets burnt if I use the recommended gas setting. Dejvid 09:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
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- It wouldn't be down to pressure but the heat of combustion of the different fuel mix. My butane or propane powered cooker goes up to gas mark 13 but on whatever I'm using now (I can't check, its 300 miles away and I'm in the land of electricity thats reliable enough to cook food with and run semiconductor plants on right now....), that amounts to about 160 Celsius. Its different on the other gas, whichever that is... --Kiand 17:46, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Probably a typo
"It is still in use, however it is not as widespread as it was in the last half of the twentieth century."
Shouldn't this read "first half of the twentieth century?" – 24.113.82.222 20:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- With the earliest know usage being in the mid-1940s, the most common usage would be in the latter half of the 20th century. —MJBurrage • TALK • 15:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History: 1963 or 1958 or 1943 or...
Right now, there is a paragraph about "The draft 2003 edition of the OED..." that dates the word to 1943, and a second paragraph that talks about a hunt for the history of the term as one word ("gasmark") that was launched by the BBC and the OED. The link to the BBC was no longer valid, so I pointed it to the OED's page about the hunt. The OED has a page with the results of the hunt, but it doesn't mention looking for "gasmark" as one word, and the OED entry it links to cites a 1958 cookbook as the earliest reference. The entry is for the OED Online, which may differ from the paper version. I sort of think these two paragraphs should be combined and updated, but I'm not sure.
If you're digging around at the BBC, it might be helpful to know that the series is called Balderdash and Piffle. "Gas mark" was in the first series, but most of the information on the BBC seems to refer to the new second series. – 70.185.217.138 04:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
