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Default What are your 12 most essential kitchen tools?

blake murphy wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 19:05:04 -0500, Janet Wilder wrote:
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>> 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.


It has that and some markings for "deep fry", too.

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