Comments on: Food Thermometers and Why they Are so Important

By: Johanne Neeteson

Johanne Neeteson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:55:58 +0000

I’ve altered the original blog post to reflect this – thanks for pointing this out!

By: Johanne Neeteson

Johanne Neeteson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:49:22 +0000

You are absolutely right. Although infrared thermometers are a neat gadget, they themselves wouldn’t adequately determine if your chicken is cooked to the right temperature. We should have noted that you would also have to use a probe to determine the internal temperature. Infrared thermometers sometimes come with one. Infrared thermometers are more suited to testing the temperature of dishes like soup or stew as they only read the surface temperature.

By: E Nestor

E Nestor — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:39:38 +0000

Infared thermometers only give surface temperatures and are not very useful with food as we are concerned with the internal temperature.