I was cooking chicken fingers. The temperature required is 450 degrees fehrenheit. So, after twenty minutes, I pull out my food, and in go a couple of books.

I close the oven, turn it up about ten degrees higher, and I wait another five minutes.

They didn't explode in flames. They didn't even burn. My curiosity had been satisfied.

So, where did RB get this temperature?

Perplexed with the answer to the temperature where books catch on fire, Ray called the local fire department on the phone. Someone at the fire-station knew what the temperature was that ignited paper.
I got this info from what Bradbury wrote years ago pertaining to your question.

What book warranted such abuse.

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a 1st edition of "Micheal Moores Monotonous Movie Misteps" or may I guess the short Chapter to Jimmy Hoffa's final tomb. But I am curious as to what book did get burned. It undoubtedly
had a better end that what Sears & Rhobuck catalogs did in the old west.

The book isn't going to catch on fire at 451 fahrenheit just from being in an oven. I imagine that number is the temperature of a flame that will ignite paper.

Brad the Great! Good to see you back, man.

Maybe your oven is broken.

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Originally posted by pabillsman1:
Maybe your oven is broken.

That's a possibility.


lol, thanks gothic

Just for the sake of argument: what if paper ACTUALLY caught fire at 911 Fahrenheit? Perish the thought!

Then at what temperature would freedom burn!?

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Originally posted by grasstains:
What book warranted such abuse.

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Ode to the Outhouse. It's a picture book for kids, a historic documentery to the bathrooms of past generations.

It came into my possesion as a gag gift.

Also thrown in, where instruction manuels to video games played by kids. And there was one more, I can't remember what it as though.



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Originally posted by pabillsman1:
Maybe your oven is broken.

My food cooks fine. It's my books that won't burn.

What are you trying to burn?
Cheers, Translator

In "An Illustrated Life" there are some preliminary book cover designs for F451 by Joe Mugnaini - but they bear the title Fahrenheit 204.

...So maybe the temperature at which books burn has been slowly increasing since 1951...

Or in the interests of scientific accuracy, maybe for the next edition of F451 the title page should say "Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which chicken cooks".

- Phil

This reminds me of the old magic trick I learned in elementary school, from one of those magic books, of tearing a complete telephone book in half. You 'bake' the phone book in the oven...much less than 451 Fahrenheit degrees, of course...and it makes the pages shatter easily to tear in half.
http://www.inkdrop.net/dave/d_phoneb.html