All thermometers are not created equal, especially when it comes to food. Food Science Episode “Thermometers” Dr. Kiky Sanford: Hi I am Dr. Kiky Sanford, and you are watching food science, today we are talking about infrared thermometers. You are probably familiar with this thing called a kitchen thermometer. You stick it in to whatever food you want to cook, and it tells you how hot that food is inside. But what if you wanted to know how hot the food s on the outside. Or say you wanted to know how hot your grill surface is. Well you don’t want to touch it because you an end up burned. That’s why science as come up with this handy little gadget called the infrared thermometer. Lots of recipes require that you bring cooking surfaces to particular surfaces. Like if you want to sear your meat the best temperature is 232 degrees Celsius, exactly. Now I want to make pancakes, and it requires a pretty narrow temperature range. To test the griddle a lot of people will take...