Latest temperature sensing tech?
I'm looking around for other, newer temperature sensing technology, beyond the inserted thermoprobe. I bake cookies (hundreds and hundreds rolled) and like to monitor the internal temperature of the cookie, so I insert a probe into one dough, and monitor from there. Is anyone familiar with temperature sensing instruments, meant for use in the oven and for baking, perhaps already utilized in the mass production industry?
For every oven batch that I make, I lose 1 cookie -- the "sacrificial cookie" which held the probe. The cookie lost is partly good because I get to taste one of each batch, but then again I already know if a batch is good or not anyway, so the sacrifical cookie is necessarily a 1/16 percentage loss/wastage.
I wonder if there's some IR tech that I can attach to elements of my oven, maybe even come with datalogging features. Furthermore, I'm using just a regular, 5-rack home oven right now. Perhaps late this year I will upgrade to a professional oven -- are there any brands that support data-driven baking?
Any clues would help! Thanks!
Best Answer
Internal temperature will always mean something has to be inside the baked good. If it is a probe remaining in it during baking, make sure it is LIGHT, because otherwise it will become a heatsink and influence the measurement. Scientists would probably use bare or glass-beaded thermocouples (wiring these up correctly is not completely trivial).
The problem with IR thermometers (and thermal imagers too) is that the sensors themselves like to be kept cool, the best of such instruments actually cool the sensors actively - so no putting them inside an oven easily. At the same time, most materials that could be used for a window to let the thermal radiation but not the heated air through are expensive (germanium etc) and/or hard to handle (table salt) - normal glass will appear black/opaque on a thermal imager, normal metal will be a mirror. And inside an oven, you will need a sturdy window that won't eventually be heated through in continued operation...
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The fastest-possible temperature sensor is an exposed tip thermocouple. However, manufacturing improvements have also greatly improved the response times of thin-film PT100 probes. Accuracy: RTDs are generally more accurate than thermocouples. RTDs have typically an accuracy of 0.1\xb0C, compared to 1\xb0C for most.What are the most commonly used temperature sensing elements in industry today?
The four most common types of temperature sensors, ranging in responsiveness and accuracy from high to low are: Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC) Thermistors. Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTDs) Thermocouples.What are the 2 types of temperature sensor?
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