Tips For Novice Cooks: Testing For Doneness & Kitchen Thermometers

Prevent over baked cakes and muffins and accurate, affordable kitchen thermometers to assure foods are safe and cooked to perfection.

It takes only minutes for cakes and muffins to go from moist to dry. Recipes have a range of cooking times to try to account for measuring errors and oven temperatures. And yet, those ranges are a guide. A wood toothpick is all you need to assure moist cakes and muffins.

Kitchen thermometers not only prevent overcooked meat and poultry, they can prevent under and over cooking.

In this video:

• Test for doneness, do not guess. 00:32
• Kitchen thermometers. 2:49
• Allowing for carry over heat. 4:29