Thermapen DOT Digital Oven Thermometer for Meat Roasting — BBQ Thermometer Probe with Loud Alarm, Water-Resistant BBQ Meat Thermometer, Reads Up to 300 °C, 1.2m Meat Probe Included

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my mother, to celebrate her newly installed kitchen.The brand is reputable, and it appears to be a good quality piece of kit, with strain relief springs at both ends of the probe cable and so on.I tested it in my own oven first, and it seemed to work just fine, giving readings that made sense. It's fast, too. Turn off the gas, and you'll see the temperature drop in just a few seconds.Very simple to operate; just two buttons to adjust the alarm temperature. It would be nice if you could adjust the temperature more quickly by pressing and holding the button, but that's no big deal. And that's literally my only complaint.

I like everything about this product. Above all it is simple to use, easy to understand and does what it says on the tin and has an uncluttered pleasing appearance

I bought this product to check that my Joule Sous Vide water heater/circulator was performing correctly.I put about 10 litres of water in my insulated cooking bath so that there was about 80mm of water depth with the initial water temperature around 48°C (both the DOT and the Joule were in close agreement at this point when I commenced water pumping through the Joule. I then set the Joule to heat to 50°C and observed the displayed temperature on the Joule and the DOT during the initial temperature rise. The Joule displays in 0.1°C increments whereas the DOT is a 1°C scale. I was immediately encouraged when the Joule reached 48.5°C and the DOT made the first incremental jump from 48°C to 49°C (i.e. indicating it was working on a rounding basis and was in agreement with the Joule). This effect repeated at the 49.5°C point when the DOT indicated 50°C. I then allowed the Joule to stabilise at 50°C (the tendency is to overheat by +0.1 or +0.2°C before then settling at the required set point). I then increased the Joule set point in 1°C increments and observed the DOT increasing in 1°C as the Joule got to withing 0.5°C of the target temperature (i.e. indicating that the DOT was correctly reading the temperature and performing the rounding-up of the value when withing 0.5°C of the next display point). I did this all the way to 80°C and the DOT performed faultlessly over this 30°C range. I then set the Joule to cool from 80°C to 75°C and observed a similarly accurate response (i.e. no noticeable hysteresis).Whilst I must concede that my test did not involve any sort of calibrated standard, the unerring agreement of the two systems suggest, to me at least, that in all likelihood both are accurate since the probability that both are exactly inaccurate is almost vanishingly remote. I will do an iced-water abd boiling water test to establish if the 0°C and 100°C points are also accurate and add an update. Is correct at these more extreme temperatures then it is pretty safe to assume good accuracy over the food-cooking range.Calibration update:Using an automatic kettle I recorded 99°C as the water came to the boil and the kettle then shut off. By my Garmin watch the atmospheric pressure was 1004.9 mbars and this means that the true boiling point would have been 99.8°C. I then tried boiling water on a gas hob and placing the probe in the bubbling water stream adjacent to the bottom of the pan and a observed 100°C.I then placed a number of ice cubes in an insulated beaker and occasionally observed 1°C by waggling the probe around in the water but it was more consistently around 2-3°C. I think if a placed the beaker in the fridge and increased the ratio of ice to water and allowed longer to stabilise it would be very close to 0°C.So, in conclusion, this really is an accurate device. I think the main threat is if the cable becomes kinked so I will endeavour to avoid this happening.

That if your. Not very good with tech stuff like the old one I had it was mode add minus time alarm , everything but the temperature ,,,,,, well this one is push button at back and off you go getting temp ,, if you want it to alarm when done press the arrow on the front up to the temp you need and done no tech ,easy.

It didn't work - alarm could not be set. It is being returned.

Excellent device which takes the guesswork out of many cooking processes. Useful also for checking the accuracy of your own oven's temperature setting (mine was way off). Seems to be a high build quality and the probe/lead is generously long. Would certainly recommend.

Love this product! Easy to use and makes a huge difference to the quality of meat that we’ve cooked using it. Would recommend to everyone

Simple! Just what I wanted. This unit tells you the temperature of the food and beeps when the alarm temp is reached. You set the alarm temp with an up and a down button. None of this select from five or six menus with two multipurpose buttons nonsense.Works in F or C. Simply hold in the on/off button when switching on to change.There are cheaper options but 'you gets what you pays for', 'you pays yer money and you takes yer choice' - I chose the DOT and I'm glad I did.