Quote Originally Posted by doninphxaz
«A moderate fire» doesn't make any sense to me in terms of oven cooking, although I think I recall reading it in older recipes. In most recipes we state a specific temperature, so the phrase gives me no idea how hot the oven should be. Hm. I wonder if any of my cookbooks would tell me? I'll have to look.
Usually it implies gas cooker and a kind of medium position of the switcher. In my not-so-old gas cooker ("Gorenje", Slovakian?) oven also use gas fire and the scale of oven's switch is graded from 0 to 8 without speciying temperature. And there is no thermometer inside. Maybe temperature is specified in the manual but i have never read it. So this way seems to me very natural.