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Default Candy themometer for meat thermometer?

Ken Pinhead wrote:
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> I phoned over there and it's a Pyrex. It looks like a meat
> thermometer, but it says candy thermometer right on the face. It
> doesn't list any of the usual candy temps,


Well of course, candy temps are substantially higher than meat
temps... often a candy/deep fry thermometer are combined... but meat
thermometers are typically stand alone, however some are combined with
a yeast thermometer.

> it's just degrees.


Probably a rectal thermometer.

Sheldon Celsius