Spicy Dew Blow Torch - Creme Brulee Torch - Refillable Professional Culinary Kitchen Torch with Safety Lock and Adjustable Flame - Micro Butane Torch with Fuel Gauge - Cooking Food Torch

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A good kitchen torch should be able to caramelize the top of crème brûlée without curdling the custard beneath. It has a one touch piezo ignition (meaning you do not need a separate flame to light it) and can be used at any angle. The PRO2 torch has an output just shy of 6300 BTUs, the equivalent of 2700 degrees, strong enough to weld some metal!

You get a coating of sugar everywhere and the extra bit will melt fast so you can then let it flow around the top to even things up. But the most significant drawback to this torch was that the flame cut out intermittently during operation. The TS8000 features superb pressure regulation; as a result, the flame points in the same relative direction regardless of the torch head’s orientation. How Meghan Markle's style has changed from boho island girl to Hollywood glam since her first wedding in. To add insult to injury, there’s still a horrid grainy layer underneath — and, because the grill has also heated the custard, it’s overcooked.Finally, I used an infrared thermometer to roughly gauge the heat output of each torch, by holding the flame tip to the surface of a cold (room temperature) cast iron pan for 10 seconds and then taking a reading of the pan’s surface temperature; comparing temperatures was a rough way to detect differences in heat output*. The Jo Chef Superior RX produced the most uniform, consistent caramelization—striking a balance between adequate heat output and flame spread. You can also check to see if the maker of your kitchen torch sells butane like the manufacturer of our favorite compact butane torch does. If you do not have a blowtorch handy to torch crème brûlée, you can place the crème brûlée under a broiler.

Instead of the larger butane canister on the Iwatani PRO2, the Superior RX features a built-in, refillable canister that can be filled via smaller universal butane lighter refill canisters. On Wednesday night, to the horror of many amateur chefs, Mary Berry decreed that blow torching your brulee was beyond the pale.The Bernzomatic TS8000 is a torch head that you attach to a propane tank, which are often large and a little unwieldy. Though I was excited at the idea of perfect searing, in practice the Searzall produced average results: The sear on steaks wasn’t as intense (though the flavor was clean), and I found it hard to direct the flame to the sides of the meat; for crème brûlée, the Searzall was difficult to control, invariably blackening the sugar and curdling the custard if I wasn’t careful.