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digital cooking thermometer can be used with any foods (they are
popular for making candy), but they are mostly used when cooking
meat. This is because a digital cooking thermometer can help you
ensure that your meat (or other food) has reached certain temperatures
at which harmful bacteria, E. Coli, and Salmonella have been killed.
In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),
temperature is really the only safe way to ensure that your food
is sufficiently cooked. If your current method of telling whether
or not your meat is done is the “color test,” then you
need to switch to using a digital cooking thermometer, instead!
Just because your meat has browned, it does not mean that it is
properly and thoroughly cooked – the color of you meat can
be influenced by freezing and thawing.
Of course, people do not simply use digital cooking thermometers
to make sure that their food has been thoroughly cooked and therefore
safe to eat, but also to make sure that they are not overcooked.
After all, nobody wants an overcooked, tough and dry turkey!
When you use a digital cooking thermometer, depending on which
type and brand of thermometer you are using, you can set your thermometer
to a warn you (via remote/pager, etc.) when your meat has reached
a certain temperature. Some digital cooking thermometers even have
the proper temperatures stored in them – the right temperature
for a chicken breast, roast, turkey, medium-rare steak, etc.
Here are some simple guidelines for using a digital cooking thermometer:
• Insert it through the thick side of the meat.
• Do not touch the bone (having the thermometer near the
bone could give you a false reading – bone conducts heat
faster).
• Completely immerse the sensing area (probe) into the deepest
part of the meat/food.
• For casseroles and egg dishes, place the digital cooking
thermometer in the thickest area.
• With poultry, stick it in the inner thigh near the breast
(again, watch out for the bone).
• Red meat – keep the digital cooking thermometer
away from the bone and also away from the fat and gristle.
• If you have a thin item, like a hamburger patty, insert
the probe in sideways.
• Always wash the probe of your thermometer after each use.
Wash it in hot and soapy water.
If you have never used a digital cooking thermometer (or any other
type of cooking thermometer) in your kitchen before, now is the
time. Ensure that you have properly and thoroughly cooked food.
Make sure that you do not char that expensive steak that you bought
– use a digital cooking thermometer.
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