Digital Oven Thermometer Heat Resistant up to 572°F/300°C, LCD

I bought two of these. One for my higher end AGA Pro oven at home and one for a Jenn Air range at a weekend cabin. The Jenn Air is generally considered a good quality unit, but not on par with the AGA Pro. Having the hotloops in two in different ovens has provided me with a good insight into these units. After about a month of use in both ovens the units appear to be working well. That said, these are are cheap thermometers - not high end by any means - so I am sure there are some valid issues with people getting lemons, but personally I think that some of the negative reviews reflect more on the user's ovens or unrealistic user expectations than the thermometers themselves. Use: To install I tied the cable with a loose single overhand knot to the middle rack in both ovens so the sensor hangs in the air space about where the food cooks. In this application, the sensor reads the air temp inside the oven and not the temp of the surfaces inside the oven. The door closes easily over the thin but insulated wires and the unit is placed on the counter next to the stove. These have an on/off switch, but I have just left these on. They have been running for over a month using a single battery. There is one review about these not being suitable as oven thermometers because they don't show the running average. That is true, but the item description does not say the units have this feature and personally I would rather know the actual current temp at all times. Accuracy: Some reviews have said these are not accurate based on what they see from their oven or based on readings with an analog thermometer...both of which are notoriously inaccurate. I have tested these with a high quality digital instant read thermometer that maxes out at 375 degrees. They showed comparable readings (+/- 5 degrees) up to 350 degrees. I have also tested this with a infrared thermometer "gun". The IR thermometer reads the temp of the oven surface not the air in the oven so the readings are not exactly the same but are comparable up to 450, which is the highest I have tested. Based on my tests these seem more than adequate for home cooking and baking. Real world use: The AGA Pro is a great oven but just has an analog temp setting dial with no temp read out. Using a standard analog oven thermometer we notice it was about 20 degrees hotter than the dial setting. I purchased the hotloop unit so I can more accurately know the air temp of the oven for baking. In the AGA Pro, once the oven comes to temperature it basically stays rock solid. There is very little air temperature variation between thermostat cycles once the oven is solidly preheated and the door stays closed. The story very is different in the Jenn Air. The Jenn Air has digital controls that let you set specific temps and also a digital read out that purports to show the oven temp. In use, the hotloop unit shows the same temp as the Jenn Air readout as it preheats -usually within a degree or two - but once the preheat cycle is done the oven beeps and the oven readout shows that the oven stays at the set point. The hotloop readout fluctuates around, quite a bit. I originally thought that I had one bad unit, but I switched them out and both behave the same in the different ovens, so I am confident the issue is with the ovens, not the thermometers. Because I bake in both ovens, I suspected there were some issues with the Jenn Air that the hotloop unit helped confirm. As an example, this weekend I put the oven on 200 to keep something warm. Once preheated, the oven beeped and showed a it was 200 degrees, but the hotpoint kept rising to about 255 degrees. Later I was making a roast and I had it set to 400 degrees convection. As the oven preheated, the hotloop and oven readouts tracked the same. As the oven reached the setpoint it beeped and showed a temp of 400 as the hotloop went up to 415. When I put in the roast, the oven continued to show 400 while the hotloop showed temps decreased (the air temp drops sharply when the door is open). The oven elements kicked back on when the hotloop read 340 and then only ever went back up to 385, although the oven display showed all the while a it was 400 degrees. Some of this may be because the thermostat in the oven is inside the metal casing, but I think the computer controlled Jenn Air is programed to lie to you about the temperature to make it appear more stable than it really is. The hotloop unit has helped to mitigate this problem and improved my baking with this particular oven. Summary: These are good units for the price. Expectations should be tempered given these are very simple and cheaply made units, but they do a good job showing the instantaneous temperature of the air inside the oven and are more than adequate for baking.

AVOID! Wish I had read the recent reviews before purchasing. This thermometer is super inaccurate for high temp readings. As the oven heats up (in my case the oven was set to 380° for the test) this thermometer just shoots up rapidly until peaking out and alternating back and forth between 575.5°-576.5°. Another digital temp gauge set next to it in the same oven showed 375°. Finally I had also put an old school analog thermometer inside the oven and that one shows ~378°. 576.5° degrees appears to be it's max display. On a whim I tested this thermometer and another digital thermometer in my fridge and they both showed roughly equal numbers, so I guess this thing works in your fridge or freezer, but it's USELESS for ovens. Also for some reason it has two wires from the display to the temp sensor, not one as pictured in the listing.

Once you get this, the reality of your oven will surprise you. For instance, ours did not hold a temp at all, and it's brand new. It cycles up and down, like massively. And there are serious differences in temp throughout the space, even when on convect bake. Basically, your oven's own display is like the Pirates' Code. This thermometer is a real help to getting precise about cooking.

This unit is setuo for a panel mount. Also it is not set up for use as a meat thermometer. It would be good as an oven air temp sensor which is what is for. Might work on a grill but a grill may be too hot for it. Smoker would likely be ok. Only the themocouple at the end of the wires need be inside the oven. The wires are not braided together/connected or sleeved. Will be using 6mm fiberglass heat shield sleeving to install on our oven that does not have a temp guage. It seems to work well and it does our job but, the discription needs to be corrected. It is not NSF certified for meat thermometer.

Thermometer was accurate to my analog one. Like that it has a cloth covered probe cord so it doesn’t get hot.

used for the first time and the temp was so inaccurate it was useless. set temp in oven for 300 and it was reading 400+ calibrated against my "meater" probe with external temp reading and this was over 100-150 degrees higher. UPDATE _UPDATE_UPDATE although the review above is valid, i do want to mention that i have been contacted by the seller who has proactively offered a replacement unit realizing the quality issues described above. i have not used the replacement unit yet, but i wanted to give kudos for the proactive customer service in making this purchase right. will post results of the new unit as soon as i can

This is invaluable. We are in an apartment and have a very old oven and temperature varies between 25 t7 degrees. This item is a great add-on especially when making bread.

This the second time reviewing this item since I returned the first one for the same reasons I'm stating now. Testing the temperature of my oven, I set the oven to 350 f. An analog thermometer placed in the middle of the oven read about 350, coinciding with the digital readout on the ranges panel. Just like the first one I got, this item initially read 575 as the oven digital readout reached 350, which is why I returned the first one, but then began to drop down to 400. I thought it was going to eventually read 350, but instead once it reached 400 it then began to increase again, this time reaching 452. I finally realized that it was reacting to the gas turning on and off while the oven was maintaining the 350 setting. Curiously, the unit correctly measures the temps of my refrigerator and freezer. I now believe that the manufacturer may be packing the wrong units for measuring oven temperature...or these units don't work for their intended purpose. Go figure.

Easy to use. Does just what I wanted it to do - check my gas oven was heating to the correct temperature

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Thermometre ne donne pas le bonne température donne une température supérieur de 7 degré

I bought this along with a manual dial-type thermometer to check that my oven was heating correctly; I wanted to double check my findings before spending money on expensive oven repair. This digital thermometer's readings were confirmed by the manual thermometer so I am convinced it measures temperature accurately. Small and simple to use. Wish it had a little stand of some sort to support the probe in the oven since it is a little tricky draping it over a rack so that it doesn't touch anything that would distort the readings Overall, I would highly recommend for quick, accurate temperature readings in oven.

Tiene muy poco tiempo de uso y ya no marca la temperatura correcta, la sonda esta libre de suciedad, se cambiaron pilas y sigue marcando de manera incorrecta... dinero a la basura