76 Using Your Thermapen Your Thermapen - A Guide to Better Food
A Few Things Your Thermapen
Does NOT Do
It doesn’t start at zero
The moment you swing open its probe, your Thermapen starts
displaying the current temperature at its tip. Your Thermapen
is not like a bathroom scale that starts at zero every time. As
soon as it comes on, it displays a temperature. If you touch the
tip of the probe, you can watch the temperature change (it will
probably go up, unless you are on a tropical island)*. Remove
your finger and watch the temperature fall again. Try it.
It doesn’t stop the cooking for you
It may seem like an obvious point, but the Thermapen is just
a tool that gives you highly accurate information about the
temperature of the food you are preparing. YOU have to make
the decisions about when to increase or decrease the heat and
about when things are done. It’s a learning process. You’ll learn
the most from just experimenting and keeping track of your
results. There are a lot of variables at play, such as how cold the
food was before cooking, your heat setting, the consistency of the
cooking surface, and much more. But with accurate information
from your Thermapen, you’ll learn quickly to account for such
variables to achieve just the right results.
* The Thermapen shows the temperature at its tip and works best when its
probe is inserted or immersed into something. It will read air temperature;
however, it can take a minute or two to get an accurate reading unless the air
is moving rapidly.
It doesn’t test doneness - it only
tests the current temperature!
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