How To Choose The Best Candy Thermometer

Homemade candies are fun to make and can be more flavorful than your store-bought candies. But making them is a little difficult. Especially when you don’t have a way to measure the temperature of your candy while cooking! The good thing is, you can always have the best digital candy thermometer!

Without it, you may end up with a sticky goo or a bitter overdone hard candy. Yikes! I can stand a gooey syrup, but a bitter candy will not make the cut! 

CANDY MAKING

Candy thermometers used to be exclusive to huge companies and not available for home kitchen use. They used to be bulky and expensive! You wouldn’t even bother having one. Most people making homemade candies rely on their experience to tell the firmness of their candy.

This is an okay method. You may end up with a great tasting batch of sweets from time to time, but, you will always doubt if you have the right heat before you burn your candy! With a  Digital candy thermometer, you can make chewy or runny candies perfect for wafer fillings! Now, check out the other benefits of this tool!

BENEFIT OF CANDY THERMOMETERS

1. PORTABLE

Candy thermometers are now pocket sized and available in most kitchen centers. In fact, you can even choose from analog and digital versions! They are usually as small as a pencil (sometimes smaller!). Some even have a timer built-in with them to be more functional.

2. AFFORDABLE

Industrial grade candy thermometers cost lots of money. Before the availability of mass produced cheaper versions of food thermometers, you would not try making your candy if you are not a real big fan! Buying candies would give you more savings rather than make your own!

3. AVAILABILITY

Food thermometers are not rare! You can find them in the kitchen section of your grocery store! Go ahead and ask the friendly sales personnel on the grocery to lead you to it! There’s no excuse of not having a candy thermometer especially when you are making your own candy toppings for your cookies!

4. PERFECT CANDIES

With a candy thermometer, you will always get the same perfect consistency of candies, chocolates and other sweets you make. Every single time! You can always repeat your recipe and get the same results (as long as you don’t deviate from your recipe)! 

With a butane torch, you can brown the outside of your perfect candies to make it more appealing! Just perfect!

You can always measure your sweets while cooking to see the stage of your candy. At a hundred eighteen to one hundred twenty degrees Celsius, you will be able to get a firm and chewy ball. Now, past one hundred seventy degrees Celsius will go to the trash. Be careful!

5. MEASURE HOT COOKING OIL

Aside from being the perfect kitchen tool to make tasty homemade candies, you can also use it to measure oil for cooking. I know you have, once in your life, deep fried some chicken wings or some meat and ended up with a perfect golden brown outside and a not-so-nice raw or bloody inside!