"Eric Jorgensen" > wrote in message
news:20050107104832.6257951f@wafer...
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:46:11 -0500
> "Dee Randall" <deedoveyatshenteldotnet> wrote:
>
>
>> My husband just bought a infra-red temperature sensor at Costco $69.99
>> that I will use this afternoon because I'm baking a couple of loaves
>> today! I was wondering what that new tool could be used for to great
>> advantage.
>
>
> Keep in mind that if you point this thing at the oven window, it will
> probably tell you what temperature the glass is.

Thank you. I didn't think of that, but I was thinking of pointing it at the
stone.
My sob story:
I won't be doing it this afternoon as I was wont to do. I had a bread-dough
failure. I thought I'd take a shortcut and not cut the pate fermentee into
10 pieces because the kitchenaid does such a thorough job of mixing. But to
my dismay the dough when kneaded had multitudes of pieces of
hard-flour/dough throughout. I thought I'd try to save it and knead it
awhile because the dough wasn't up to the 77 degrees, so I decided to use
my Silipat that I hadn't been using for a couple of years, actually probably
not ever, because when I brought it home from far away, I thought I saw a
puncture in it, but when I looked thoroughly it didn't; but while kneading,
I felt that I was getting a piece of fibre-glass in my hand, as someone had
suggested fibreglass is the reason not to use one with a puncture, so I
dumped the dough AND Silipat and all into the wastecan! I never trusted it
anyway, so I was glad to get rid of it. Phew! end of story!
Dee