Advantages of using kitchen thermometers

 Advantages of using kitchen thermometers

The kitchen thermometer is a utensil that in recent years has gone from being a characteristic tool for detail in the preparation of food in the professional kitchen to a tool whose use is essential in any home. And it is that knowing if a food has been cooked at the right temperature is not only a matter of getting a better taste, but also of food safety.

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Advantages of using kitchen thermometers
Cooking: for those who have relative experience in baking recipes, they have surely realized that although the set temperature is the same from one oven to another, the internal cooking level of the food varies depending on the brand and type oven being used. With what recipes such as the traditional Christmas turkey, require much more careful baking so that the meat of the bird is not raw in the center and, likewise, in the opposite sense it is also a great help to prevent our recipes are overbaked.

The only way to know exactly the internal temperature of a food is with a thermometer, more specifically with a kitchen thermometer with a skewer that allows us to directly measure the heat level of our recipe in question.

Flavor: in cooking food, the level and time of exposure to heat is a variable that can create different nuances of flavor and texture. For example, sophisticated methods such as sous vide cooking require the food to maintain a cooking environment at a relatively low and very constant temperature.

Food safety: the main advantage offered by the regular use of the kitchen thermometer to cook food at home, is the possibility of knowing exactly if a food has reached the appropriate safety temperature that guarantees the elimination of harmful bacteria.

As mentioned before, ovens usually do not have a thermometer that indicates the real temperature of the food that is being baked and, although they are close to the data, the only reliable way to know if we are cooking as it should is using an external thermometer.

Economic: kitchen thermometers are quite inexpensive, with models from less than ten euros to others of hundreds of euros or more. The latter, of course, are temperature measurement tools that register changes on very small scales, and are mostly used in industrial processes.

For the vast majority of kitchens, both in the home and in the professional kitchen, the use of a standard kitchen thermometer is more than enough to fulfill the task of accurately measuring the temperature of food.

At Los Utensilios del Chef we have an excellent variety of kitchen thermometers with different brands, models, functions, prices and more. If you are looking for a quality kitchen thermometer, do not hesitate to take a look at the catalog that you can find in our online store.

Types of kitchen thermometers
In the market there are a large number of brands of kitchen thermometers, as well as a relative variety of types, of which two are widely used in the home and professional kitchen respectively.

Digital kitchen thermometer
It is the type of kitchen thermometer most used today, as it is easy to calibrate and much more to use.

The digital kitchen thermometer is made up of a small cartridge that has a digital screen where we can observe the temperature of the food whose heat is being measured.

It has a stainless steel skewer or needle, normally removable at one of its ends, a part that digs into the texture of the food and allows the level of internal heat to be recorded, thus offering a much more accurate measurement of the level of cooking than maintains a recipe.

Its practicality of use is its first advantage, being a portable tool that simply has to be stuck in the food to know its exact temperature, this leaving just a tiny hole that does not affect the aesthetics of the recipe that is being used. elaborating.

It has a length that is normally around 20 cm on the skewer alone, sufficient to measure the core temperature of most dishes. Plus, it offers an instant temperature reading with an error range of just 0.1 degrees Celsius.

The digital kitchen thermometer normally uses a button or double or triple A battery to feed energy, such as the one that we could find in the remote control of any household electronics.

What foods are digital thermometers used for?
Digital kitchen thermometers are normally presented as utensils that make it possible to measure the temperature of solid foods, however, their sensitivity to detect heat is ideal for measuring the temperature of liquids, from water to dense recipes for sauces and creams.

Likewise, it is worth noting that the digital kitchen thermometer not only offers an accurate measurement of a warm temperature, but also regularly has an excellent measuring range that normally goes from -50 ° C to 300 ° C, Margin of excess not only for the measurement of baked recipes, but also for the measurement of temperature in foods that are elaborated or kept cold. Although in the latter case, the measuring capacity depends on the skewer crossing, and is therefore a function of the hardness that the food can maintain if it is frozen.

Additional functions and digital probe thermometer
Many models of digital kitchen thermometers maintain measurement functions in addition to temperature, such as measuring the level of humidity and pressure in food.

Likewise, a digital thermometer model in addition to the one described, is the digital probe thermometer, which allows extending the distance between the measuring box and the skewer inserted into the food.


This type of thermometer has the advantage that, by being able to insert the skewer into the food to be baked, the probe is trapped by the closure of the oven door and connecting to the measuring box with digital display, from where it can be monitor the temperature accurately throughout the baking process. Of course, both the needle and the probe are resistant to high temperatures.

Both the cartridge model with a side skewer and the probe model are digital thermometer models that you can find for sale at Chef's Utensils.


Laser kitchen thermometer
Laser kitchen thermometers are increasingly the standard of use in many kitchens, having, like the common digital thermometer, an LED display, but differing in the way of measurement, which in this case is performed, as its name mentions, by means of a laser species.


However, although they are known as a laser thermometer because they have a format similar to a small pistol and, also, because they emit a slight flash when aiming and shooting at the food whose temperature is to be measured. However, a more correct term is infrared, which is the technology used in this type of thermometer to determine the temperature of a food.

Laser kitchen thermometers stand out for being much more practical to use, since they do not require touching the food of which you want to know its temperature at all and, in fact, it does not directly measure the temperature as if it does the digital thermometer. Instead, the laser thermometer is simply in charge of detecting the thermal radiation and emissivity of the food, data that the laser thermometer computer processes to give us the temperature of the food with excellent accuracy.