Tips for using kitchen thermometers

 Tips for using kitchen thermometers

The success of your dishes depends largely on the temperature you use to prepare the food.

If you want to cook like a professional and prepare memorable dishes, it will not be enough for you to use the best ingredients and follow the advice of the great chefs; additionally you must learn to control the temperature of what you prepare. Indeed, the difference between a juicy turkey and a dry one, to cite an example, is not only in the time that each has spent in an oven, but to how many degrees they have been cooked. Fortunately, it is possible to master this aspect of the technique by employing a number of special kitchen thermometers .

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The reason for an oven thermometer

All recipes are meticulous about how hot the oven should be before and during the time required to cook a certain dish. Even though the vast majority of stoves incorporate a mechanism to set the temperature, many times (more than you imagine) it loses its calibration, so it is essential to acquire a device that allows you to know for sure the degree of heat.

The oven thermometers are inexpensive and even come in different forms, it is best to pick one that will hinder not manipulate the plate easily; he prefers, then, one that can be hung to one side. In the case of meats (veal, poultry and even fish) it is also convenient to know the internal temperature of the piece during cooking , to prevent it from drying out too much. For this there are also inexpensive stick thermometers.

Be careful with liquids

But also, when you cook directly over a fire, it is important to know the temperature. For some frying, it is necessary to know exactly how many degrees the oil is, for example, to prevent the food from burning on the outside and being raw on the inside.

In the same way, when you prepare caramel , it is essential to control that the sugar goes through the different heat levels; otherwise, it may solidify very quickly or burn. Luckily, there is a thermometer on the market that is used for both cases, that you can easily submerge in the liquid and that usually remains hooked to one of the walls of the pot or pan.

All in one

A digital probe thermometer can be used in any circumstance.
If you find it difficult to use so many utensils for the same function (measure the temperature), you can purchase a digital thermometer with probe , which has the characteristic that you can use it both in the oven and to pierce a piece of meat or to immerse it in a liquid hot.

As chef María Llamas points out, although it has a higher price, it is at the same time more resistant and reliable.