Make sure your food is cooked perfectly with the St Helens Home Garden digital thermometer. A meat thermometer accurately tells if your food is cooked or not. It also helps to prevent overcooking. To be safe, foods such as meat and poultry must be cooked to a safe minimum internal temperature to destroy any harmful organisms that may be in the food. The thermometer comes pre-set with eight different types of food, beef, chicken, lamb, veal, ham, pork, turkey and fish and five types of taste options, done, well, medium, medium rare and rare. The thermometer can also be used in beer, jam and bread making. Extremely easy to use. Insert the probe into food as it cooks and wait for the temperature reading to settle. Temperature can be displayed in deg C or deg F. The thermometer can be set to a certain temperature. The thermometer will beep when your food reaches that temperature. The thermometer has two magnets on the back so that it can be stored permanently on the front of a fridge. It also has a retractable stand and timer mode.