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Originally Posted by Zygote
..... if you poke it in while the steak is still hot, you'll leak out all the juices and maybe ruin your crust...
Crust has nothing to do with interior juices, but putting that aside for a moment, if you stab your steak, you should leave the thermometer
in, and don't pull it out, thereby preventing juices from leaking out of the gaping hole that you have foisted on your poor, tasty, succulent piece of cow.
Ideal thermometers are the ones with long wires that allow you to keep the 'telling you how your steak is' end far from the 'measuring how your steak is' end.
After all, a whale has a spout. A steak should not.