Product DescriptionProfessional quality oven thermometer with a stainless steel frame and a protective glass lens. Stands on its own or can hang for your convenience.
What Others Say
Accurate and easy-to-read
My oven has always been much hotter than the number on the dial. So, a while back, I bought this oven thermometer (Taylor 503 Connoissuer Line Oven Thermometer) which I hated because it was hard to read. So recently I bought this Sunbeam one and an MIU one (MIU #90069 Commercial Oven Thermometer) because it was 4 for 3 and I was tired of not knowing the oven temperature.
Then I turned my oven on to somewhere between 325 and 350F, put all three thermometers in the same part of the oven, and let it heat for a while. After 10 or 15 minutes, I opened the door and took a picture of the thermometers so I could get their readings at the same time.
The results were:
Sunbeam: approx 380F
MIU: approx 360F
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Thermostat is very inaccurate
Tried this oven goody in several places and compared it to two other thermostats where one was analog and the other digital. The Sunbeam consistently measured some 30 degrees below the other two. The other two show identical temps.
Thankfully, it was a nominal cost. But into the trash it goes.
Fine for the Price
I bake a lot, and since oven temperature is so critical I wanted to double check my oven. The two matched up, so I have no complaint -- the thermometer works fine, but then so does my oven. I am glad I bought it because if the oven ever does get out of wack, hopefully the thermometer will alert me to the problem before any food is destroyed.
Disappointing
I bought the Sunbeam 90300 to see whether to blame some spotty results with tried-and-true recipes on our oven or some wicked humidity. Unfortunately, the situation remained a mystery even after trying to use this thermometer for a week and placing it as near to the center of the oven as possible.
Empty oven, partially full oven, thermometer carefully balanced on rack in middle position, or suspended from rack in 2nd groove from top -- nothing worked. I will say that the markings were easy to read, even through the range window with the light turned on, but when the needle wasn't twitching, it was hopping around ... not behavior designed to inspire any confidence.
(Turns out the oven was a constant ~ 5 degrees slow, ... Read More
Good, bad, fine - hard to say.
I got this because it was cheap, looked easy to read, and my oven is highly questionable. All of those things were true and remain true. Now I have a problem: I'm not sure what to trust. The thermometer is almost as questionable as my oven.
So I took the thermometer to work and tested it against an oven that I suspect is much more accurately calibrated and still no resolution. At home the thermometer reads that my oven is about 40 degrees hot. At work it reads that the oven is about 15 degrees hot.
The fundamental concern is: if one buys the cheapest oven thermometer can it be so cheap that it can't be trusted to do the one thing it is designed to do?
