Would this be useful for making candies, particularly fudge (which does best at a temp of 234)?
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You have to pay special attention to cooking on this stove. Everything happens quickly. If you were making the fudge you were speaking of, I believe it would do a great job, you just cannot walk away from it. For me it is the perfect stove I use it for everything. My old electric stove sits unused now except for the over.
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The NuWave Cooktop worked beautifully this Christmas when I made a non-chocolate Scottish sweet cream fudge with Brazil nuts. It was my first experience using the device and I was skeptical, but one of my brothers has been using the NuWave for years and convinced me to give it a try. Perfect fudge.
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The temperature control is not that precise - it's in 10° increments. But yes, absolutely, an excellent cooktop for making anything that needs a constant temperature.
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I don't know! I purchased this as a gift for my son who raves about. I'm not sure how precisely the heat can be regulated, sorry.
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no problems using it to make candies. If you are looking for a certain temperature, then best to get a digital thermometer.
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I bought mine for low temperature use. but i found that it would not hold my desired temperature, be the temperature that it displayed (i have a laser heat gun), or stay powered on the entire time i had set. Overall it wasn't a very precise device, i personally recommend looking into any other devices in your price range if there are any, as i would not buy this again for my purposes.
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Hi Monica, yes the thermometer can be used for candy temp measurement. but just make sure you don;t leave the whole thermometer in a high temp environment. The stem cell is heat resistant but not the the cover(plastic) part. Hope this helps, Many blessings, BlizeTec
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I used it to make Salted Whiskey Carmles. It worked ok. It doesn't melt at high temps, which is good but it does dispurse heat quickly. Which can be bad if you have something in it that cools quickly, like Carmles. If your chocolate will stay liquid for a while this would work just fine.
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Yes. It would! We recently used it to make chocolates in molds. I mostly use it to pour hard candy into molds.
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I think that you can. It is a bit more like brown sugar in that it's more moist than white sugar, but it would probably work. You can look online for how to use the "Ball Test" when making candy, or you can use a candy thermometer to ensure that the mixture reaches the correct temperature as per your recipe. I tried once to make candy on a very humid, overcast day & it did not firm up, so I'd recommend making the candy on a clear day :)
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I have used them with melted chocolate and candy melts. I'm not 100% sure about hot fudge, but the bags are pretty durable for a disposable product.
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Yes, you can use it to measure liquid temperatures. I use mine to measure fudge temps when I am making fudge, and jam temps also. To determine the accuracy of yours, boil a pan of water. When it is boiling vigorously, place the tip of the probe into the water (not touching the pan) and it should read 212 degrees. Use the difference as a correction factor when measuring your liquids.
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You could make hot chocolate as it has heating element. Cleaning up would be difficult since it has cutting blades. ...Any recipe you have could be used
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yes, I use this thermometer for all of my candy and it turns out great. Due to the plastic housing you can not rest it against the pot as stated below.
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I use it to make green/white tea at 185 degrees that should be hot enough to dissolve sugar I believe.
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They are good up to 500 degrees F so I'm pretty sure they are good for baking I know a few people who have used them when making certain edibles...
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I'm pretty sure it will what its the temp for pouring I use mine for making hard candy and that get to be 300 degrees sometimes a little hotter
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We don't like it. It is very hard to pump the hot fudge if it sits unused for few minutes. The fudge gets warm or cold in the outside part of the pump and you have to pump it out first (about 3 times and it is hard labor) before you start getting hot fudge.
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Hi, Stephanie,Let me start by encouraging you to buy something else. Anything else. This is a flimsy, cheap tool that I regret having bought. I bought it to use as an accessory for fondue dinner parties. I used it just once and it is stored somewhere.But, back to your question. It did maintain the temperature for chocolates (milk and hazelnut chocs) but it took a long time to come up to temperature. If memory serves, I plugged it in about 30 minutes before the dinner and it was not quite up to temperature at desert. By time of cleanup, the temperature was OK and the remaining chocolate was just right.As a novelty, go for it. But as an ongoing usable appliance, forget it.Jay Hi, Stephanie,Let me start by encouraging you to buy something else. Anything else. This is a flimsy, cheap tool that I regret having bought. I bought it to use as an accessory for fondue dinner parties. I used it just once and it is stored somewhere.But, back to your question. It did maintain the temperature for chocolates (milk and hazelnut chocs) but it took a long time to come up to temperature. If memory serves, I plugged it in about 30 minutes before the dinner and it was not quite up to temperature at desert. By time of cleanup, the temperature was OK and the remaining... » Read More Hi, Stephanie,Let me start by encouraging you to buy something else. Anything else. This is a flimsy, cheap tool that I regret having bought. I bought it to use as an accessory for fondue dinner parties. I used it just once and it is stored somewhere.But, back to your question. It did maintain the temperature for chocolates (milk and hazelnut chocs) but it took a long time to come up to temperature. If memory serves, I plugged it in about 30 minutes before the dinner and it was not quite up to temperature at desert. By time of cleanup, the temperature was OK and the remaining chocolate was just right.As a novelty, go for it. But as an ongoing usable appliance, forget it.Jay « Show Less
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The Indians cook with it and it comes out fine...so do I. But it is best not to use high temps if using it to fry/ saut. I haven't made cookies with it 'cause I'm dieting, but I think they would be delicious.
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Yes, you can set the thermometer for any temperature. It also comes with pre-sets as with other candy thermometers. I have found mine to be very accurate.
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I have never used it for food but I have made charms with a high heat glue gun and they have survived. The highest I have baked anything in it has been 275 degrees. I don't know if boiled sugar or syrup will be too hot.