Cool Kitchen Gadgets: Digital Candy Thermometer

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    • I’d gotten along just fine for years without a digital candy thermometer. For plenty of purposes in the kitchen–just trying to get a bubbling pot of sugar to a certain range, like the soft ball or hard ball phases, or just trying to get oil hot enough for frying–a standard candy thermometer, giving temperatures on an old-fashioned analog dial, is just fine. This Taylor Classic or Polder 511 will do the trick nicely. 
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    As it turns out, though, candy thermometers come quite in
    handy–and for DIY candy-making, a digital readout is much more
    precise. Williams-Sonoma makes a reasonably priced digital model for $35, and Amazon.com offers several popular brands and models including Maverick’s digital oil and candy thermometer.
    It beeps as soon as it reads the temperature you set it to, letting you
    know exactly when your concoction is ready. It’s great if you’re doing
    advanced work where it’s more important to hit a particular
    temperature, rather than a range.

    Nikki Goldstein
    Nikki Goldstein
    Serious Eats is a website focused on celebrating and sharing food enthusiasm through blogs and online community.Our unique combination of community and content brings together the distinctive voices of food bloggers, compelling original and acquired food video, and sp irited, inclusive, conversations about all things food- and drink-related.

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    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0120a4cfa2f0970b MJJ

      Love this concept and will be interested to see if it works with oil as well. Also my family has great success with the in-oven digital thermometers for cooking things like that xmas goose…you set the desired temp and it beeps you when close. Pretty slick but a little pricey – I still rock the old-skool instant kind :-)