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Thermometer fork

A fork that will make sure you don't burn your tongue
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Sometimes you don't know how hot your food is and burn your tongue. Well this fork will solve that exact problem by having a thermometer on your fork. Also with an inbuilt fan this invention will be good for tongue burners. Okay, I get it, there are some life hacks out there for if you burn your tongue, but who wants to have to put sugar on their tongue every time they burn it?

The thermometer is on the top of the fork and the fan is at the bottom of the fork. The fan would turn on if the food was above 70 degrees Celsius (158 degrees fahrenheit) and continuously spin until the food got to 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit).

Roblox Gaming, Jun 02 2017

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Metal Detecting Pudding Spoon http://www.halfbake...g_20Pudding_20Spoon
Product:Cutlery:Technologically Enhanced? [Wrongfellow, Jun 02 2017]

Welcome aboard! https://www.youtube...watch?v=mRe8J4scGtU
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! [doctorremulac3, Jun 02 2017]

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       [+]   

       A beverage spoon with an integral thermometer would be useful.
8th of 7, Jun 02 2017
  

       [+] hydrometer-equipped swizzle-stick to see if the barkeep is watering down the booze.
FlyingToaster, Jun 02 2017
  

       Nice, [FT] - you should post that ....
8th of 7, Jun 02 2017
  

       + nice...welcome to the halfbakery
xandram, Jun 02 2017
  

       If the tines of the fork were made from bimetallic strips, they could be configured to curl down and drop the food if it was too hot.
8th of 7, Jun 02 2017
  

       But as the bimetallic strips making up the tines fidget and wriggle and eventually drop the food, they will need some kind of miniaturised voice generation circuitry so that as they are doing this they gasp: "Oooh, ah, ah, - ooh, hot!!!"
hippo, Jun 02 2017
  

       Oh fork crying out loud.   

       Welcome to the HB, [Roblox].
MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 02 2017
  

       Yes welcome Roblox.   

       Just to get you acquainted with the HB, not only do we share various invention and design ideas, we also discuss the social and political issues of the day and everybody does so in a calm, respectful, dare I say, loving and supportive manner.   

       So feel free to wax philosophical about the world's political happenings in this safe, accepting environment where all views, no matter how divergent, are treated with respect and dignity.   

       Naa, just kidding. We're all nuts. No matter what your political leanings, you're not officially a halfbaker until you've been called Hitler at least half a dozen times.   

       Oh yea, "[+]" means I up-voted your idea.   

       [+]
doctorremulac3, Jun 02 2017
  

       Actually it's just [doc] who is insane, at least according to the paperwork I've seen. [2 fries] has managed to avoid being clinically assessed, but you'll have plenty of time to draw your own conclusions. [8th] would probably be sectioned under the mental health act, but he falls so far outside most of the scoring charts that nobody has a word for it. I myself am bipolar, paranoid, slightly Aspergic on a good day and a sociopath, which puts me slap bang in the normal range for here.
MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 02 2017
  

       And no, I'm not a real doctor. As far as I know.
doctorremulac3, Jun 02 2017
  

       (He's legally required to make that statement, after the "incident".)
MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 02 2017
  

       Trans-species head transplant work gets a bad rap from those goody-goods in the AMA.
doctorremulac3, Jun 02 2017
  

       Yes, it does seem very unfair to the unfortunate chimpanzee who got Hillary Clinton's original head in exchange.   

       // until you've been called Hitler //   

       Godwin's Law !   

       That's ANOTHER $5 you owe us ...
8th of 7, Jun 02 2017
  

       but you already took his clothes, boots, and motorcycle.
Voice, Jun 02 2017
  

       As you can see I'm the unpopular kid who everybody gangs up on.   

       I'm also the one who's actually dated real women. Could be the cause of all that angst.
doctorremulac3, Jun 02 2017
  

       To be fair, [8th] did once assimilate a ewe.
MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 02 2017
  

       Still want to hang out with us Roblox? (see link)
doctorremulac3, Jun 02 2017
  

       // actually dated real women //   

       No, you tried to date real women. As was explained at the inquests, it is not possible to calculate the age of a woman by cutting her in half transversely and counting the growth rings. That ONLY works for trees; and it's a destructive analysis - neither the trees nor the women fit back together or ever work properly afterwards. Be told.
8th of 7, Jun 03 2017
  

       We had my mother-in-law carbon dated.
MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 03 2017
  

       We recall it vividly. We can only presume that Sturton wilfully misread the instructions. Only a tiny sample is normally used for neutron activation ... her complaints and struggles as you stuffed her into the reactor were rather disturbing, and the outcome entirely predictable.   

       Unless of course you had some ulterior motive ?
8th of 7, Jun 03 2017
  

       aww, it seems like you guys are showing off in front of the newbie...haha. It's great to have a new 'baker with a good idea!!
xandram, Jun 03 2017
  

       A lot of infant feeding spoons are supposed to change colour when they're too hot, though I don't know how you're supposed to know that when there's food all over it.   

       I guess you can see better after you've put the food into the baby.   

       Babies also give an audible alarm. The spoon seems redundant.
b153b, Jun 03 2017
  

       You could have transparent food.
pocmloc, Jun 03 2017
  

       Can't see that working ...
8th of 7, Jun 03 2017
  

       //Babies also give an audible alarm. The spoon seems redundant.//   

       Babies also give an audible alarm when you stick a fork in them. The food seems redundant.
MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 03 2017
  

       // Babies also give an audible alarm when you stick a fork in them. //   

       <pause for consideration and design of experiment>   

       <LOUD YOWLING>   

       Cats also give an audible alarm when you stick a fork in them. Similarly, they consume milk, produce noxious effluvia from many bodily orifices, smell bad, cost money, and perform no discernable useful function.   

       Is there a methology for conclusively discriminating between cats and babies, on the sole basis of applying repeated unpleasant stimuli ? Something involving a hammer, or high-voltage electricity, would be ideal.
8th of 7, Jun 03 2017
  

       Apply repeated unpleasant stimuli until the subject dies of old age. Measure the time this takes.
Wrongfellow, Jun 04 2017
  

       How rude of me, yes, welcome.   

       Careful what you say around [Max]. He seems to think that the string of letters behind his name entitles him to fling any manner of accusations and proclamations at others without needing so much as a single shred of evidence to do so.   

       ...it's like his modus operandi or something.   

       //the string of letters behind his name//   

       I think that might just be one those charm bracelets for cheating at scrabble.
pertinax, Jun 10 2017
  
      
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