TaylorKitchen Cooking Oven Thermometer with Oven Guide, Stainless Steel

First off, it’s bigger than it appears in the ad. I used a reviewers idea and calibrated it in boiling water. It did read low, but a gentle push on the tube set it right. I left my old thermometer next to it as I fired up my toaster oven. The Taylor followed the pre heat to a tee as the round thermometer lagged 75 to 100 degrees behind. Even opening the door caused the Taylor to decrease temp in real time. It’s fast. I recommend. Yes, excited about an oven thermometer…welcome to my life.

put in ice water to test accuracy. 32 degrees F.ordered 2. one accurate. one not.Returns are ridiculous. Dissapointed.

I purchased four different oven thermometers to test:* Ademtior Kitchen Oven Thermometer http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003EDY97U* Taylor Oven Guide Thermometer http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004XSCA* Rubbermaid Commercial Stainless Steel Oven Monitoring Thermometer http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KDEIZ0* Taylor TruTemp Oven Dial Thermometer (from BedBath&Beyond)I tested these over a range of temperatures from 300 to 450 degrees F on separate ocasions, allowing the oven and the thermometers to completely cool between tests. Right away I noticed that the Rubbermaid and TruTemp models were junk. Both of these thermometers read anywhere from 20 to 50 degrees off from the other two. They were also slower to adjust temperature, meaning that once the oven was preheated and the other thermometers displayed the temperature, both the Rubbermaid and TruTemp thermometers continued to adjust their readouts.The Taylor Oven Guide thermometer was off by about 15 degrees at each temperature setting (compared to the Ademitor and my oven setting, but since the readout was consistently 15 degrees off at all temperatures, it’s clear that this resulted from a misaligned glass tube. Fortunately, this is easily adjustable simply by sliding the tube to the left or right as necessary.Between the Ademitor and the Taylor Oven Guide, I think the Ademitor is slightly easier to read but the base is a bit too small, making it easy to fall through the oven rack. The Oven Guide has a much wider base so it stands up nicely.

Works perfectly !

So glad to finally have an oven thermometer that is so easy to read!

I've had this oven thermometer for 3-4 years, and have liked that it is an alcohol thermometer, which is generally more accurate than a bimetallic thermometer. It may be somewhat less precise because you don't have the convenience of a pointing needle, but I generally prefer to know for sure that my oven is at 350 degree +/- 2, than to know it's at 353 +/- 10. It is fairly stable sitting on the bottom of the oven or a rack because of it's large base. It is also easy to keep out of the way as well because it doesn't hang down too low where you might hit it with a pan, and the cleverly-shaped hook can attach to oven racks that have wires running front to back and side to side. I haven't had any issues with this part of the design.As others have mentioned, unfortunately the markings are not protected at all from spatters and grease. I've cleaned it before with limited success, but noticed today that it was getting really unreadable. While trying to clean it off, not only did I start removing the markings, but I noticed that the glass bulb is actually able to move side to side in its housing! This means that any calibration that did exist with the temperature scale is completely ruined. Since I had a number of years of service from this thermometer with no issues, I'm not too upset. But for anyone considering this as a new purchase, you might look elsewhere or at least be warned of these shortcomings. I'm looking for another thermometer that can replace this as my favorite, if anyone has suggestions.

Ok... oven not seeming to be hot enough... bought an oven thermometer at Kroger's.. not expensive. Well, that purchase didn't seem to heat up as much as the oven..Went to William and Sonoma and bought the Taylor 503, much more expensive. So it should really be good, right? That thermometer seemed to be so, so slow in reaction. And thanks to the position of my oven light.. I couldn't even read it.Went to Amazon and got an overnight delivery of the Taylor Oven Guide Thermometer. ( don't add all of this up...three thermometers.. it's ridiculous)Bottom line... this one was perfect for me. As far as complaints of grease and cleaning and losing lettering?? I take it out before I put the item in to bake. (Hint..use tongs to remove it as it is HOT. If you use mitts or hot pads.. I guarantee you.. you will drop it.)

When the thermometer arrived, the glass tube slid freely in the metal frame, making calibration useless. Amazon's supplier said they'd replace it, and since it was fairly inexpensive, don't bother returning it. I threw it away.The replacement arrived and was much better, and quite accurate, but within 2-3 months in the oven the metal darkened so much (not spattered food, just dark metal), that the black numbers became almost impossible to read - and invisible through the oven door. I don't really use the oven that much, especially in the summer - which is now. Maybe once a week, and I'm not making pizza at 550 F, and it's not a self-cleaning oven either. Then I get a message from Amazon that since they never got a return of the first one they would now charge me for the second. Deep sigh - it's only $12, I tell myself, WTF.Then today, I pick the thermometer up (the only way to read it) with gloves, from my preheated oven and the fluid that is supposed to indicate the temperature is spread throughout the tube like a freakin' bar code. Totally useless, and it won't shake down like a fever thermometer. Second one in the trash. I will NOT buy a third.

Accurate within 5 Centigrade, very fast response to oven temperature (as you would expect from alcohol). The accuracy was confirmed by comparing the temperature reading with 2 other thermometers of different make.

Needing Service as oven was not reading the correct temperature, the Serviceman recommendedTaylor Precision Pro Oven Temperature Guide.YES, Taylor Precision Oven Temperature Guide is 5 Stars. A MUST PURCHASE for a Baker to have the oven at the correct temperature.Bought 2 more for our daughters.

My oven door glass has that black speckled finish. Also my eyes are not young! I have tried various circular gauge spring metal gauges and whilst they are easy to read, I found but they were never consistent or reliably accurate as the manufacturing quality is poor. I have been using a mercury oven thermometer (same basic design as this one) and whilst accurate the fine silver mercury was always difficult to read through my oven door glass (even when clean) and I had to resort to shining a powerful torch through the oven door glass and trying to get the right angle for reading.This gauge is accurate and correlated with the mercury thermometer.The readout is in blue (alcohol?) and is larger which makes it easier to read.The thermometer has a substantial size base which makes it stable when sitting on an oven shelf.The thermometer has the option of a hook to hang (below) the oven shelf.Some difficulty is still experienced reading through my type of oven door glass (see above).

This oven thermometer is well constructed stainless steel with a hanging clip and foot stand. The design includes graduated markings below 100 degrees fahrenheit that proves useful in bread making when monitoring lower temperatures is required to enhance yeast growth before baking commences. This product is more pricey than the metal spring thermometers but I prefer its glass tube indicator for reliability. Overall very pleased with its performance so far.

Works well