Why is water boiling at 96?

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Quote by DrDu

Why not? For precision glass thermometers in laboratories mercury is still the gold standard.

You shouldn't find mercury thermometers in a food grade manufacturing facility. The manufacturing facility I'm familiar with has specific instructions against having them on the property.

The digital food thermometer has just ridiculously bad precision.
You need a calibrated precision thermometer e.g.
http://www.greisinger.de/index.php?task=2&wg=26
And should closely follow the instructions.

Probably better to say it has ridiculously bad accuracy. It could indeed measure temperature with an acceptable precision but just not accurately.

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