{"id":5979,"date":"2011-12-19T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-23T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:40:06","slug":"thermapen-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/thermapen-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermapen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years I&#8217;ve experienced everything from burnt caramel to undercooked turkeys and overdone steaks because of crappy thermometers. Most were either slow, inaccurate, or both, and it made for imprecise cooking. <\/p>\n<p>I left that all behind a few months ago when I started using a Thermapen digital thermometer. It&#8217;s fast, accurate (within +\/-0.7 F), and tough (the newer models are splash proof, just don&#8217;t fully submerge it). It turns on the instant the stainless steel probe is flipped out, and is ready to read in three seconds. It&#8217;s got a professional thermocouple, and if you ever find it&#8217;s become inaccurate (you can test with a glass of ice water, or a geographically determined boiling point) they&#8217;ll calibrate it for free. <\/p>\n<p>The quick reading time means that there is no need to leave it in the oven (or leave the roast out of the oven for that matter). My old $10 thermometer took 30-seconds to stabilize, which, when cooking a nice piece of steak, is the difference between perfectly cooked and over-done. Not only that, but the narrow probe is far better at determining the temperature of thinner cuts of meat without leaving gaping holes. <\/p>\n<p>While it may seem like an extravagance to most, I&#8217;ve found this thermometer to be an essential cook&#8217;s tool. <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still the best thermometer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[2307],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24948,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/24948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}