Like my attachment to this very broken oven thermometer…
It has been sitting on my counter for over a year.
Thoughts?
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Like my attachment to this very broken oven thermometer…
It has been sitting on my counter for over a year.
Thoughts?
The Woman and the Wheat 
Dunno, but I do the same thing. I finally threw out my broken meat thermometer after keeping it for I can’t remember how long it’s been broken!
Is just the glass broken? Or does it still tell the temperature? We have one with that was broken, just took the glass out and use it, still.
Actually, I’m not sure if it still works! I’ll have to pop it into the oven next time, just to check–not that I could read it or anything–with all those cracks… I tried to pull the glass out, but no budging… 🙂
You MUST keep it! You must find a little shelf (or a little spot somewhere), put the thermometer on it and put a cute little plant and candle by it. A memorial to all past baked goods. . .
Perhaps I could put it next to the French leather baby shoes, hockey puck, and old computer hard drive that I keep here on my desk!
It must embody for you all the wonderful things you baked while using it. A well-used thing like that has its own beauty. I’m going to be sorry to say goodbye to the total-loss-salvage van we’ve been driving with a crumpled, duct-taped back door for the last year and a half, because it was a faithful servant for seven years. Unfortunately, a van takes up a lot more space than an oven thermometer, and our neighbors are anxious to get that “eyesore” off the street!
Oh, Katherine. Make sure you take some photos of that old van, that faithful servant, before sending it off to its final resting place. Don’t you love duct tape?
OH MY !!!!!…..and I thouhgt I was the only one who kept things like that… I have been hiding this lil quirk for years
Your love for that old thermometer makes me smile. It’s great that you see beauty in what many might pass over. And it’s still useful–just not what it was intended for. 😉
My thoughts run to a piece of art that you could make that would encompass not only that charming artifact but others that you have tucked away here and there. But for now, it is a piece of art just sitting on your kitchen counter.