Review on Rubbermaid Commercial Products Stainless Steel 🌡️ Oven/Grill/Smoker Monitoring Thermometer with Instant Read Technology by David Dreher

Oven temperature setting was much more accurate than this oven thermometer. Tests and experiences: When I measured 250, 350 and 450, the infrared temperature gun matched the oven temperature exactly. set and I checked the temperature at the bottom of the oven thermometer. This oven thermometer pretty much measured 25 degrees less at every temperature. I was surprised that the difference stayed the same at every temperature. At first, from reading his reading, I assumed the oven was running 25 degrees colder than what you put in it. was synchronized with the temperature I set in the oven. On the other hand, I've also always found it difficult to understand how an IR gun can be so accurate without being in contact with what it's measuring. It turned me into a two o'clock person who never knows what time it is. . An oven thermometer is only $7. The average food cost you lose on a culinary flop is worth more, even if you don't count your time. The trick is, what does the house person use as a reference? I decided to use a candy thermometer, bring water to a simmer with a mercury candy thermometer and an oven thermometer. I also have an aircraft altimeter. I dialed it on 29.92 (default day) and it showed 840 feet. Water boils just under 1 degree below zero per 500 feet above sea level. This corresponds to the boiling point of water 210.4. The candy thermometer read 212 and the oven thermometer read a little over 200. The result was that the oven thermometer read about 10 or 11 degrees below zero. The candy thermometer wasn't necessarily wrong at 212 because I used tap water, not distilled water, and almost any contaminant raises the boiling point. It can be concluded that instead of running 25 degrees colder than programmed, the oven is actually running 15 degrees colder because 10 or 11 of those was a low reading on the oven thermometer. water, I decided to put it in the oven at 450 to dry. However when I looked at the oven thermometer after drying it showed 439 which is now only 11 degrees different than what I put in the oven and the same size error we had compared to the candy thermometer instead of 25 , which was originally displayed. Analysis: What I put in the oven is more accurate than the oven thermometer I check with. While the IR gun matches what we put in the oven, we actually used the boiling point of water to calibrate, not the IR gun. The thermometer in the oven first showed 25 degrees, now it shows 11 degrees, like in the water, which means that during the water bath its calibration somehow changed for the better. Over the next few days, it returned to a 25 degree low, right where it started. This makes the oven's 20-year-old thermocouple-based electronic temperature control nearly perfect. Unfortunately, this also means that this oven thermometer is not a reliable source for determining the actual oven temperature and is therefore unsuitable for the intended purpose. First I wrote with a dry marker, "Reading 25 degrees below zero." Then I thought I don't know if it will hold the low 25 degree reading or not, so I threw it away.