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Nowadays there’s an app for everything. Smartphones can calculate the tip, text a buddy, confirm travel plans, surf the web, even make a phone call. But is your Smartphone the best tech tool to have in the kitchen?
Here are 21 reasons the New TimeStick Trio beats the pants off of your Smartphone when it comes to keeping time in the kitchen:
I don’t care what the TV chef said, you cannot tell anything about the temp of a grill is by holding your hand over the grate and counting “1001, 1002, 1003” until your palm bursts into flame.
If you’ve had trouble getting your baked goods or roasted meats to turn out according to the recipe, it could be that your oven accuracy is off. A good cook should know their oven well. Are the settings accurate? How stable is the oven after it gets to your setting?
Over time, with continued use, as a result of drops and other kitchen mishaps a thermometer can become less accurate and require recalibration to determine how far off the mark it really is.
The easiest way to test the accuracy of any thermometer is in a properly made ice bath. If you do this carefully, your ice bath will be 32.0°F within ±0.1°F.
