candy thermometer

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   a thermometer used to determine the temperature of candy syrups during cooking

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Questions about candy thermometer

What does candy thermometer mean?

candy thermometer means "a thermometer used to determine the temperature of candy syrups during cooking".

Is candy thermometer a common word?

candy thermometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.