Can I use a probe thermometer to double check fudge temp?

[BAPyessir6]

I want to make old fashioned fudge and my candy thermometer is big and bulky and only fits my big pot. I want to make a smaller amount of fudge and my thermometer won't attach to the pot very well. Can I monitor the temp of the fudge using a probe thermometer, or should I use a bigger pot and use the candy thermometer instead? Or can I use both as I monitor the temp to double check it?

 

[Aunt Bea]

if you are making old fashioned fudge you could test it the old fashioned way.

I wouldn’t hesitate to experiment with a probe thermometer or hold the glass candy thermometer in the pot to do a quick test.

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt

 

[taxlady]

I wouldn’t hesitate to experiment with a probe thermometer or hold the glass candy thermometer in the pot to do a quick test.

The only drawback to this is a caution. If you rinse the thermometer between times that you dip it in the fudge, make sure the thermometer / probe is dry. You don't want to get drops of water into the fudge. And, I don't know for sure, but you probably don't want dried on fudge to be dipped back into the fudge when you measure the temperature.

 

[Andy M.]

Note the temperatures from the candy thermometer and use them to monitor the fudge with your probe thermometer.