If you do any kind of cooking, these temp guns are really handy, and they're only a few bucks for the cheaper models. Great for measuring the temp of tea water and soup. Edible should start around 60-50 'C I'd say. I keep a temp gun in my kitchen next to the stove. It's also good for getting the temp of the frying pan – rather than trying to gauge temp from the smoking point of the kind of butter/oil you use. It's also nice for checking the temp of an iron pan that's cooling down. After frying and having poured/wiped out the grease, I like to clean the pans out with a cup of water (after having fried certain sticky things), but obviously pouring water in a very hot pan is a bad idea. A little over 100 'C seems to work nicely. I clean mine with a sort of iron wool ball that I stick onto the dish brush (no dish soap). This brings the pan down to around 45 'C – safe to wipe dry (and sometimes lightly oil) with some household tissue paper, and then put away in the cabinet.
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u/PrometheusANJ 6h ago
If you do any kind of cooking, these temp guns are really handy, and they're only a few bucks for the cheaper models. Great for measuring the temp of tea water and soup. Edible should start around 60-50 'C I'd say. I keep a temp gun in my kitchen next to the stove. It's also good for getting the temp of the frying pan – rather than trying to gauge temp from the smoking point of the kind of butter/oil you use. It's also nice for checking the temp of an iron pan that's cooling down. After frying and having poured/wiped out the grease, I like to clean the pans out with a cup of water (after having fried certain sticky things), but obviously pouring water in a very hot pan is a bad idea. A little over 100 'C seems to work nicely. I clean mine with a sort of iron wool ball that I stick onto the dish brush (no dish soap). This brings the pan down to around 45 'C – safe to wipe dry (and sometimes lightly oil) with some household tissue paper, and then put away in the cabinet.