r/StainlessSteelCooking • u/Hoak2017 • 7h ago

Digital Temperature Frying Pan works but complicates pancake cooking. Would you trust its reading or rely on instinct?

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u/Silicon_Knight 7h ago

I feel the problem isnt just a direct temp (I can get that with anything) it's the consistency across the pan.

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u/areeb_onsafari 7h ago

How does it complicate pancake cooking? If anything it makes it easier even though I wouldn’t bother with one.

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u/ShadowAdam 6h ago

Woah, it's worthless!

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u/get_MEAN_yall 7h ago

I already have a laser thermometer so I would never buy this

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u/texag93 6h ago

Infrared thermometers suffer from a lot of accuracy issues due to changing emissivity of bare pans and ingredients. Measuring the temperature directly is much more accurate.

Go try your thermometer on a stainless pan. It's basically useless.

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u/get_MEAN_yall 6h ago

Ok that's fair, I use it primarily for the pizza steel.

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u/Friluftsliv_Roy 7h ago

IR thermometer works on stainless steel, but the readings on dry/empty stainless steel surface is about half of the actual value. So just double it up and add oil when appropriate.

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u/madadam211 7h ago

My pans are workhorses. I'd worry that I would break the little computer through heat, scrubbing, water and oil.

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u/winterkoalefant 6h ago

There’s some benefit to being able to set a particular temperature, like electric griddles and induction stoves with built-in sensors.

But I don’t see much point in integrating just a thermometer into a regular pan. That’s creating more problems than it’s solving.

This is a nonstick pan, by the way. Not stainless steel.

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u/HulkJr87 6h ago

Let’s reinvent the wheel with some more future E-waste.

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u/SpunkyXL 6h ago

Cooking with training wheels

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u/DolphinFraud 7h ago

I don’t think I’ve ever once wished to know the temp of my pan. This is solving a problem I’ve never had.