Why different thermometers for candy and meat?!
Why different thermometers for candy and meat?
Please ....and thank you!!!
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Answers:
Candy thermometers have to be extremely accurate, sometimes within a degree or two. It means the difference in fudge and hard candy! It is also designed for higher temperatures so it won't break when getting candy to say a hard crack stage, a meat thermometer could break under that extreme heat. Hope this answered it for ya!
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They have different ranges of temperature.
And they have different key points marked.
Our kids used to ask "Is it turkey yet?"
a normal thermometer can not handle the temp that boiling sugar reaches and will crack
a pastry thermometer can and all so is marked out with the different stages of caramelising so you know when its ready with out risking burning yourself
Nice to see someone saying please and thank you!
Good morning.
For one thing candy thermometers necessarily have to withstand and measure a much higher temperature than meat thermometers and also there is the question of cross contamination. What has been stuck into the meat cannot be stuck in to the sugar and vice versa.
Hope that helps. Have a nice day!
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