tim, both American Foundation for the blind and Science products used to make such a device, although it wasn't a fork. Science products may still do so. Ann Morris Enterprises has a very viable solution in the form of an adapted tactile thermometer. This is a dial with a steel probe you incert into the meat. The glass has been removed from the dial and pop rivets inserted every 20 degrees between 120 and 180 degrees Fahrenheit. I use one all the time and it works fine. It is not left in the meat, you insert it when you want a reading and it stabilizes within 20 seconds or so. The thermometer does not get hot. It costs only $about 12.00. . Strongly reccommended by a blind cook and rehab engineer. You can easilly read it to 10 degrees and 5 degrees is a pretty good guess. Despite what anyone may say, that's close enough for any meat dish I can think of They have a similarly adapted candy thermometer also but I havn't tried it. Try it, you'll like it. Everything doesn't have to talk. Tom Fowle Smith-Kettlewell Rehab Engineering Center. Net-Tamer V 1.11X - Registered VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html