Bob > wrote:
> Alex Rast wrote:

> > The dial-type candy thermometers also work OK, although
> > it's a little more difficult to see the motion of the dial because it's
> > generally not as much as in a glass bulb type. Digital-readout thermometers
> > are much more difficult to work with because a changing numeric reading is
> > confusing and tends to make it difficult to figure out exactly what's going
> > on.

> The digital readout is considerably more accurate and considerably
> easier to read, IMO. On the face of it, I can't understand why
> changing numbers would be confusing. What's to figure out about what's
> going on. The sugar is getting hotter, staying the same or cooling off.

The digital models we use have temperature alarms. You can set them
a few degrees below the critcal point, and then they will beep
once things get close. Easy to understand and read.

To each, their own, if you don't like digitals I'm not going
to try to convince you to change. We use them for candy making
all the time and find them quite handy.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.