One of the "baby" products that we cannot live without is a food safety infrared thermometer. My culinary adventurous husband was thrilled to receive this as a Christmas gift. I'm sure he saw it on some Alton Brown episode and fell in love. Our previous uses for it were to test the temperature of heated pans, oil for frying, and the occasional window to check for drafts. But we have found this to be irreplaceable when it comes to testing the temperature of warmed bottles. You can always do the "test a few drops on your wrist", but my wrist cannot tell the difference between 85 and 110 degrees. I like to know that even though the bottle might feel a bit warm to me, that it is in fact 98 degrees, just as it would be if they were getting breast milk straight from the source.
To test the temperature, remove the bottles from their heating source, swirl them around a few times and shoot the infrared either onto the outside of the bottle or the inside (to test the milk directly). The outside and inside temperatures typically vary, but by only a few degrees. We are now also using the thermometer to test the rice cereal after heating it in the microwave (you can easily see the hot spots).
We use the Fluke FP Foodpro Food Safety Thermometer, purchased after much research. (Yes, pre-triplets, I actually spent time researching infrared thermometers on food safety websites.) I'm sure other models should work just as well, but I highly recommend this model.
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