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[gfish]

Dammit, after a second failed fudge batch I finally thought to do a calibration test on my fancy new digital candy thermometer. Apparently water boils at 102.2 C! I did not know that!

Bah. At least a second test came up with the same result, so I can just add a constant. But I'm really mad at myself for not checking my instrumentation earlier, particularly when it's such a simple test.

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[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Which begs the question of whether that much error is enough to matter for the candy making?

-B.