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Is that a euphemism?!

Hell yeah I do and now my meat is always cooked to perfection!

For roasts, yes. For steaks, no.

For what?

No. I bought one but ended up continuing my practice of looking at the meat and then taking my chances.

Depends on the meat, if it's beef, I don't. If it's poultry or pork, yes, because I don't trust myself enough to not get food poisoning.

Yes and always. Between learning how to reverse sear and using a meat thermometer, my steak game gained 99 levels once I had quantitative data as to the actual temperature of the meat.

I'm sure there are savants out there that can tell doneness by poke or reading thrown rat bones but most of us without a thermometer are only pretending to know and likely ruining an expensive piece of meat.

Only for whole birds, everything else I pretty much low and slow cook so I know its done, and steaks I eat bloody.

for brisket and pork shoulder in the smoking chamber, or turkey in the oven, but never when cooking any meat on a skillet or in a crockpot

Yes. A good one (reads fast, replaceable parts) makesoit easier to cook.

I use mans natural thermometer. It has never failed me. I am also to broke to afford a real one

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I am a bit late to the party. Yes, I have a meat thermometer. No, I do not use it for meat, poultry or other animal matter. I do not cook meat that often and when I do, I usually know how to properly cook it without using a thermometer from experience. It's not that difficult unless you roast entire birds or anything.

I occasionally use it for measuring temperatures when brewing beer. I have a digital thermometer with a wide range (-40C to +200C-ish) and use it to check the temperature of the wort when pitching the yeast.

Yeah, mostly for turkey times, but also to make sure the water coming from my sink isn't boiling.

It is boiling, so more to make sure my attempts to cool it worked. Which those work fine.

I use one.

Yes. My meat thermometer is a fire and forget type where it automatically shuts off the heat once it reaches a certain temperature or preconfigured meat setting. It makes the air fryer a wonderful appliance when working on other foods simultaneously. Plus, I don't have to worry about unsafe temps, or overcooked food.

Yep. ThermoWorks is the brand I have.

No, but I spent a lot of time and money practicing to cook the perfect steak. Now I can eyeball it and adjust the time as needed for a splendid outcome. My partner does most of the other cooking.

Yes, for meats and breads.

Only until I get the hang of a cooking technique - once I figure out something always takes 20 minutes to get there, I just do 20 minutes.

Yes, when I have a flu.

Yep. I use an instant-read thermometer wherever I'm cooking whole pieces of meat. If I've cut it intobite-sized pieces, I do not. I don't cook beef at home anymore, but would only use it for things like roasts.

Yep. I also keep an infrared thermometer in my kitchen. Sometimes it's really nice to know the surface temp of a pan too.

Pretty much only for poultry.

Yes. Untrustworthy oven in old apartment, weird convection oven in house that I don’t fully understand yet.

Im vegan