KitchenCraft Home Made Jam Thermometer / Sugar Thermometer Spoon, Red, 32 cm

This spoon is really great. I used it so far for boiled sweets and its so precise. It doesnt have the thing that my analogue thermometer has, which is a guage to tell you what is going on with your sugar(hard ball, soft ball etc) but its precise, its safe to sit in the pan for the entire time and its acually brilliant. I know its a lot. Its a clear tenner more than my other, but I think if you are going to be doing a lot of sugar work its worth it.

Easy to use, dose the job.

I bought this to make fudge over Christmas. The temperature appears to be accurate I checked against another food thermometer in recently boiled water and reading matches within 0.5 degrees. Have used to make fudge few times now with no problems and resulting in good quality fudge. It is even ok to use in the beating stage of the process of fudge making. As the temperature probe is within the spoon you can check temperature whilst stirring and so avoiding having to hold thermometer separately or risk "catching" fudge under fixed thermometer so it has definitely eased and improved my fudge making experience.The downside and the reason for not 5 stars is that the end of the probe is kept in place on spoon by thin silicon bridge. This was difficult to clean out after first use, came loose during second use and came off into 3rd batch of fudge, fortunately the bright colour made it easy to remove so no harm done. The probe still sits in the spoon ok but now will ride up slightly so have to keep pushing back down into place. Another minor problem is that it is easy to knock the thermometer off whilst holding and using - I did this a few times on first use easy to turn back on so not major issue.You can use it left handed if you remember that the numbers are upside down.

Bought this to help me make marmalade. Looked at lots of different sugar thermometers and wasn’t impressed until I came across this one. The digital read out is clear and easy to read, so no trying to work out the exact temperature by looking at markings on a scale. Doubles up as a spoon too. Very easy to clean. Very pleased with my purchase and I highly recommend it. The marmalade is amazing and this thermometer made it so much easier and stress free on my first foray into marmalade making.

Used twice while making marmalade. On the third occasion it wouldn’t switch on. Opened it and found the battery rusty. Replaced it and then it wouldn’t switch off, so the battery ran down. Very unhappy, rubbish reliability. Can’t find how to claim on the supposed 12 month guarantee. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I have noted the manufacturer so I don’t buy any more of their stuff.

While it is not always the easiest to clean, the extra few minutes are worth it as combining the spoon and thermometer frees up a hand while heating.

I just tried this last night when sterlizing some milk. The (yoghurt) recipe called for me to raise the temperature of the milk above 90C and hold it there for 15 minutes, while stirring continuously. In the past I've done the stirring with a wooden spoon in one hand while holding a thermapen with the other. Lots of annoyances doing it that way - I knock the thermapen with my spoon, my temperature hand gets parboiled in the steam, and the thermapen switches itself off every few minutes. The task is SO much more pleasant with this thermo spoon!Also, the spoon itself seems to be made of a stiff silicone formulation, and feels impressively robust - almost tough enough to dig holes in your garden lawn, it's certainly capable of stirring the stiffest of fudges!I'm very pleased. Get one![Edit 4th Nov 2015] I am reducing my review rating from 5 stars to 3 after discovering that this thermo spoon has a tendency to lock up (software freeze) while in use. The problem is actually quite reproducable: I was heating up a fudge mixture in the microwave, taking the bowl out every now and then to stir and check the temperature. Except the display kept getting stuck on a reading, it wouldn't even switch off, I had to poke a pin though the small "reset" hole in order to get it working again. It has done this several times in a one hour session. I am a professional programmer myself, and from these symptoms I suspect that the firmware doesn't like it if the temperature ramps up too quickly. I'll make a wild guess that it's averaging the last N readings, and the lockup occurs if the range of readings over that N is too high. Very disappointing, as it means that the thermometer part can't be relied on at crucial moments. However it is still preferable to two-handed operation with a thermapen.[Edit 17th May 2016] My thermo spoon is no more. It is an ex thermo spoon. It snapped in two halfway up the handle while I was attempting to mix bread dough. So, I got a bit more than a year out of it. At least I can answer a question about the material that I raised in my review: the interior is a kind of brittle plastic, only the outer coating is silicone. I am left disappointed - that early feeling of quality has turned out to be an illusion. I am now looking for a different thermo spoon.

Clever design.

Es un buen producto, yo lo utilizo casi siempre sin la cuchara de silicona, pues asi me cuesta menos limpiarlo, y hace el mismo servicio, buena compra

Handige lepel-thermometer voor het bereiden van donuts in een friteuse-pan op het kookvuur. Zo kan je de temperatuur van de olie gooed nameten en instellen via het kookvuur. Een kwestie van een beetje veilig te werken en kijken dat alles mooi bakt. Handig ding dus. Gemakkelijk in gebruik. Oogt mooi ook :-)

Does the trick.

This is so smart! I absolutely love it and it works great! 10/10!

Pratico e facile da pulire, è la soluzione perfetta per cioccolata e preparazione di gelati