Thermometer Usage. How Should I use it to measure properly?

[skyhskyh]

Hello,

Firstly, I am thinking to buy a good thermometre, this one seems quite handy and quite good. Recommened by Modernist Cuisine Site

Any people here have used it and has any feedback to give? good or bad or some tips...

Secondly, the other things I would like to ask is about how to use thermometre in general.

There are some situations I can think of that I wanted to test out, e.g. how hot is the oven I am cooking my food in, how hot is the steamer cooking the food...

The problems I am concerned is, is it suitable to place the whole thermometre inside the oven, close the lid, after a while, open it and check the oven temperature? Same goes with steamer, is it suitable to throw in the whole thermometre in, steam it, and check temperature later?

Will the plastic or whatever material the thermometre is made of melt? Will it break the thermometre?

Thirdly, if it is not suitable to throw in the thermometre, then what steps I can go about in order to measure accurately about those temperatures?

Thanks in advance

[judiu]

There are different thermometers to measure different sorts of heat. An oven thermometer will measure heat in the oven, up to (usually)about 500 degrees f. You'll generally bake @325 degrees. A probe thermometer, as shown in your link, measures the heat in the food being cooked, such as roast meat at 125 degrees. Unfortunately, one size does NOT fit all !

[skyhskyh]

If I want to measure temperature of my oven or steamer, then what sort of thermometre should I and can I get?

[Lisa Shock]

The top of that thermometer will melt if placed inside an oven.Here a regular oven thermometer, here's the newer digital oven thermometer.

[skyhskyh]

I guess there shoulnt be any problems if i use the oven thermoeter inside a steamer?

I wonder if i throw inside hot deep frying oil, would it be ok too since the temperature range should be high for oven thermometer?

[gfweb]

One trick to make a food thermometer do double duty as an oven thermometer is to put a ramekin with a cm of oil in the oven. After time to come up to temp take the temp of the oil which will = oven temp.

[Lisa Shock]

The original thermometer you linked to can be used to take the temperature of oil, you just need to be careful to just keep the plastic part out of the oil. Its range is: -67to 572F/-55 to 250C, deep frying temps fall well withing that range. (the brief description at the top of the listing is wrong, check the product details)