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Default IR thermometers

On Feb 10, 12:19*pm, Cindy Hamilton >
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> On Feb 10, 1:01*pm, Duwop > wrote:
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> > On Feb 10, 6:33*am, Cindy Hamilton >
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> > > On Feb 9, 9:49*pm, "SteveB" > wrote:

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> > > > Anyone use them? *At times, I want to check if a pan is hot (I have
> > > > electric, so it's a guess) *Other times, I want to check the temp of a lot
> > > > of stuff. *But then, the surface temp may be totally different from the
> > > > interior temp. *Does anyone have one and use it? *Share your experiences
> > > > with me.

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> > > > Steve

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> > > No, if I want to find out the temperature of a pan, I drip a few drops
> > > of hot
> > > water into it. *The sizzle tells me what I need to know.

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> > > Ok, so the IR thermometer will tell you the temperature. *Can you
> > > correlate
> > > that to "it's ready to add the pancake batter", or whatever the task
> > > at hand
> > > might be?

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> > > Cindy Hamilton

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> > Come on, this is the age old "baker vs cook" type debate where nobody
> > is right or wrong. To each their own.

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> > Two basic styles oe categories of cooks and cooking:
> > bakers, who measure twice and cut once and love the science of it.
> > cooks, who like to use recipes as a starting point.

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> > Some of us can swing both ways. ;-)

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> Well, I do use a scale to weigh out my Cheerios in the morning. *
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> However, I don't see the point in spending real money to do something
> that a few drops of water, or shimmering oil, or just "by guess and
> by golly" can do. *Of course, I've been cooking for 40 years, so
> maybe that's got something to do with it.



Yes yes, you're better than anyone that likes to use gadgets in every
way.

We get it.

It's horrible that some people like gadgets, how dare they? The nerve
of them to step foot into a kitchen much like you yourself use. Some
people!