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Cake Testers

Restaurant cooks swear by cake testers. But are they useful for home cooks?

By Published June 22, 2020

What You Need To Know

Cake testers are beloved by restaurant cooks, who use these fine metal probes to check the doneness of not only baked goods but also vegetables, meat, and fish. We were curious to see if these tools were truly as useful and versatile as we’d heard. So we bought four cake testers, priced from about $3.00 to about $6.50, and used them to test the doneness of Olive Oil Cake, Classic Qu...