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Fahrenheit is better.
0 is real cold, 100 is real hot. How much sense does that make? Lots.
What the fuck is Celsius? Maybe if you are doing chemistry it is better. 0 is kind of cold but not really, 40 is real hot, 80 is unsued in practice, 100 is when water boils. Great, that'll come in real handy the next time I need to find out whether it is boiling-water temperature or not outside. How much sense does that make? 0. Which is the right number to use for roughly the bottom of the scale.
For everything else, the US's medieval "how many hogsheads in a farthing" units are far inferior, I will 100% agree. Fahrenheit is better though. If you disagree then why not just use Kelvin, that's even more chemically accurate and even less related to human relevant temperatures which is the goal I guess.
The thing about Fahrenheit being more intuitive is it will just depend on what scale you're used to. If anything having the scale relate to water makes more sense for cooking but again since nothing is being converted it doesn't really matter. If you want an actually superior American unit of measurment imo look no further than cups. Using volume over weight has made following recipes much easier for me.
No cup of flour will have the same amount of flour in it. Plus how many tomatoes do I need for one cup of chopped tomatoes?
Plus weighing sticky stuff is much easier than using cups or spoons.