Help me with dinner real quick

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I'm making beef tenderloin and roasting it. Better Homes & Gardens cookbook says what temp the meat needs to be at and all. The way its worded makes me think that I leave the meat thermomater in there the entire time but this sounds wrong, and H says its wrong.

Do I leave it in the whole time or stick the thermomater in at the end of the cooking time?

[Doc_Lobster]

I would not leave it in the whole time.

[candreco]

It depends on your thermometer- if it's oven safe, you can leave it in the whole time, and it''ll help you gauge your timing based on how fast the roast is cooking.

[speckledfrog]

I would do it the whole time.

[tacokick]

Make sure your thermometer is oven safe! We thought ours was and it melted.

The kind that attaches to the gauge by a long cord is normally oven safe. The kind you just stick in with the built in dial might not be.

[drrn04]

oven safe one - leave it in so you're not poking the meat all the time and letting the juices spill out.

not oven safe - um.....I don't know. Don't leave it in while it cooks, but I've never used a non-oven safe one, so I'd just say good luck, and probably do what the PP suggested.