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I've always had doubt about knowing how much of my instant-read thermometer actually reads the temperature of what I'm cooking. For example, if the probe is 5" long, how much of that length is actually affecting the reading? For instance, if I'm cooking a filet and want an absolutely perfect internal temperature of 130 degrees at the center, and I over-penetrate the tip of the thermometer by a couple centimeters, am I compromising a proper reading on the center? Or, by contrast, if the entire 5" affects the reading, then putting the tip of the probe into the very center isn't accurate because the part of the probe that's not in the center of the filet is exposed outside the very center, thus changing the reading and doneness.
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