Every oven with an electric display has 350 as the standard starting temperature. And so many recipes, especially baked goods, call for baking at 350. Is this arbitrary, or is there a reason for it? If arbitrary, where did it come from?
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Old recipes call for a low, medium or hot oven, with medium being most common. Those temperatures end up being about 250, 350, or 450.
The good range of temperature to cook things at was figured out before we had a numbered measurement.
So once manufactures were able to assign a number to start at, they choose the most commonly used one
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