Food Thermometers: Candy-Frying Thermometers

Wrapping up our look at different food thermometers, K-State Research and Extension food safety specialist Karen Blakeslee shows us a candy thermometer, which can also be used for deep-frying.

[@aprilezell3784]

I was hoping you would actually show how to read the thermometer. I have like a quarter inch of mercury so I don’t know if the reading is at the top or the bottom of that mercury line. No one can seem to tell me.

[@allys7089]

I was using the glass thermometer for frying oil and it broke.... not good...

[@Romidear]

Why the thermometer made of glass turn out cloudy when gets warm

[@sofiaroberts8918]

Una mexicana en Mexico the steam heats it up, and then the steam clings on to the glass thermometer.

[@rhondareese1607]

Didn’t tell me anything.