[Grammar] Heat the oven to a temperature of 200°C.

[kadioguy]

Heat the oven to a temperature of 200°C (= degrees centigrade).

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/temperature?q=temperature

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Why is it 'a' rather than 'the'?

This thread might interest you: https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/111636-A-the-temperature-population-etc-of

What do you think?

 

[Tarheel]

I think that's the way it's always phrased in recipes, and I have no argument with that.

 

[Rover_KE]

Recipes normally find no need to include 'a temperature of'.

Heat the oven to 200°C.

 

[kadioguy]

I think that's the way it's always phrased in recipes, and I have no argument with that.

Now I have a new thought:

Heat the oven to a temperature of 200°C.

"A temperature of 200°C" means that the temperature is not the only one. We could get many instances of the temperature in our lives.

Is that reasonable?

 

[emsr2d2]

It's as good an explanation as any.