A compact folding probe thermometer for cooking, food safety checks, and temperature monitoring across the kitchen. The probe folds into the body when not in use, which makes it pocket-sized for storage, travel, or sliding into a chef's apron without catching on anything. Unfolds in a second when needed.
The temperature range covers most of what comes up in a working kitchen — from freezer monitoring (-40°C) through to deep frying (the 200°C top end handles oil temperatures, sugar work, and most oven applications). Useful for the genuinely important tasks where eyeballing isn't good enough: getting chicken to a safe 75°C internal, checking that a steak is at the rest temperature you actually want, calibrating a fridge or freezer that's drifted, tempering chocolate to the right curve, or pulling caramel at exact stages.
Response time is 15 seconds, which is the practical difference between a thermometer that's actually useful during service and one that sits in the drawer. Slow thermometers cool the probe in the food while you're waiting, giving you a misleading reading; the faster the response, the closer the reading is to the real temperature. Accuracy of ±2°C across the working range (0-100°C) is good enough for food safety and cooking precision without paying for laboratory-grade equipment.
Switchable between Celsius and Fahrenheit, which matters when working from imported recipes or cookbooks that use different units. Auto shutoff preserves battery life when the unit is left on accidentally — a real consideration since these run on a single LR44 button cell that's a hassle to source if it dies mid-shift.
Suitable for home cooking, light commercial use, food safety compliance, BBQ, sous vide finishing, baking, and any kitchen where consistent results matter. Compact enough to be the thermometer you actually carry rather than the one that lives in the drawer because it's too big to bother with.
LR44 battery included.
Part of the KH Spot On range of commercial weighing and measurement equipment.