Price: $12.99
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Product Description

Customer Reviews

3.7 out of 5 stars

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EASY READING: you can see the actual temperature that your oven is registering with the digital LCD display, then make adjustments to ensure that you cook or roast at the proper temperature.
HIGH ACCURACY: temperature ranges from 32~572ºF(0~300ºC), accurate to ±1.8ºF(±1ºC) which ensures you can grill meat to your perfect doneness knowing it won't be under cooked or burnt.
EASE OF USE: place the probe in oven. The heat-resistant probe wire fits through oven door or grill lid and connects to transmitter. The wire is thin and does not interfere with the oven door seal.
DURABLE & SAFE: High quality material guarantees strong and totally accurate even after long and frequent uses. The probe is forged of food grade stainless steel which leaves no metal taste in the meat.
Functional: Celsius/Fahrenheit switch; powered by 1 AAA battery(not included). A must for cooking, baking or BBQ. This thermometer makes your cooking perfect every time.
Reviewer: P. Burke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good oven thermometers units for the money. Recommend.
Review: 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.

Reviewer: Stephen Bowlby
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works accurately
Review: 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.

Reviewer: Andrew Corso
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Shockingly Accurate
Review: Easy to use. Requires one AAA battery. The probe cord is about 4 feet long. The temperature displays in either C or F. The temp appears to be very accurate. The only knock is that the screen is not lit, so hard to read from a distance or at low light.

Reviewer: Donald Reni
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Innacurate
Review: Purchased one a while back and it worked great but the leads eventually started to fray. The new one recently purchased displayed the same temperature as the old one at ambient temperature but was off by 40 degrees once the oven got up to 350.

Reviewer: Notulate
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Accurate
Review: Using in an old gas oven in a trailer. Slipped the sensor down the vent in the back. Much more accurate than relying upon the gauge on the knob.

Reviewer: Abigail Stoffel
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Limited in usefulness
Review: This is a useful product if you have an oven and you want to get a decent idea of how it handles temperature. For instance, how much heat does it lose when you open the door, and how long does it take to recover. This is pretty valuable info if you have a cheap oven like myself.I'd never use this on a regular basis though. It doesn't have a good mounting mechanism. It's just a box with a cord and temp sensor attached. The only way I could think of using it was to tie the cord to my oven rack, leaving the sensor dangling. But that isn't good for everyday use.I'm glad I bought it, but it's certainly not a permanent solution.

Reviewer: Mystik_Kittie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: GREAT FOR RV OVEN
Review: We leave it on the counter and dangle the wire into the RV oven door around the center line of the oven. Works great to see REAL temps when trying to cook. I'm sure it would work GREAT for ANY heating item: furnace, grill, smoker, etc. Head is designed to be installed into a recess or project box if desired.

Reviewer: Andrew Perkins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Need to secure it to the Range or Wall
Review: Long cable, easy to read and operate.Would be even nicer if there was some way to backlight the display, but for the price, it's great as is.

Reviewer: Robin HW
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Oven thermometers aren't always that accurate. Good to check against..

Reviewer: Agustin Godines
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Falló la primera vez

Reviewer: aribert kudlek
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Vielfältig. Große Anzeigen. Für Alle Einsätze wo man Temperatur messen will.

Reviewer: Client d'Amazon
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Thermometre ne donne pas le bonne température donne une température supérieur de 7 degré

Reviewer: snimpy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Easy to use. Does just what I wanted it to do - check my gas oven was heating to the correct temperature