On Fri, 15 May 2009 19:05:04 -0500, Janet Wilder wrote:

> Chemiker wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:05:13 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Chemiker wrote:
>>>
>>>> No instant read thermometer?
>>> That's part of my outdoor cooking kit, not my kitchen.
>>>
>>> I have a huge, 6 burner gas grill and a bullet smoker.
>>
>> Um, Janet. Do you do yoghurt outside?
>>
>> I make it weekly. In the pot. I need to know when
>> the milk is 160 and again 105. Not a meat thermometer,
>> but a *cooking* thermometer.
>>
>> Alex, who knows you can't test yoghurt with your thumb.
>
> I have a glass thermometer that I use to take the temp of the water I'll
> be dissolving my yeast in. It looks like a test tube with a metal clip
> on the top. That's a cooking thermometer isn't it? I don't make
> yoghurt or even yogurt.

i used to have one of those. i seem to recall markings for candy-making -
soft ball, hard crack, etc.

your pal,
blake