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Default Candy themometer for meat thermometer?

In article >,
Steve Wertz > wrote:


> It sounds like a marketing thing. They want you to buy two of
> them that do the exact same thing.
>
> Some meat thermometers will only go p to 250F or so. The Polder
> and Taylor electronic probe thermometers all go up to 396F, so
> are suitable for most everything (oil, candy, meat, etc...)
>
> I haven't bought a dial-thermometer for decades - since I
> discovered the probe therms.



Back in the bad old days, you had to buy two, because the meat
thermometer wouldn't register high enough for candy, and the candy/deep
fry thermometer wouldn't register low enough for meat.