Equipment Review: Best Oven Thermometers & Our Testing Winner
Equipment Review: Best Oven Thermometers & Our Testing Winner
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An oven thermometer is the only reliable way to know what’s happening inside your oven—unless you have a model that’s inaccurate, hard to read, or falls off the racks.
We tested 10 oven thermometers to find the best one:
CDN Pro Accurate Oven Thermometer
Taylor TruTemp Thermometer
Polder Commercial Oven Thermometer
Cooper-Atkins Dial Oven Thermometer
Williams-Sonoma Oven Thermometer
Norpro Oven Thermometer
Taylor Connoisseur Oven Thermometer
Taylor Oven Thermometer
Maverick Oven Thermometer
Maverick Large Dial Oven Thermometer
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For reliable, consistent results with recipes, a good oven thermometer is critical. When we used a high-tech digital thermometer to take the temperature of five different home ovens preheated to 350 degrees, some missed the mark by as much as 50 degrees. Here’s one big reason why: An oven’s internal thermometer only gauges the temperature of the location where it’s installed, which is necessarily in an out-of-the-way spot in the back, front, or side of the oven box. But these areas can be subject to hot spots or drafts that make their temperatures differ from the center of the oven. Only a good freestanding oven thermometer can tell you what’s really going on right in the middle of the oven, where most food cooks.
For several years, we’ve relied on our winning dial-face oven thermometer from Cooper-Atkins, but we’ve also noticed new models on the market and wondered if anything better had come along. We scooped up nine dial-face models priced from $4.63 to $20.94 to pit against it. (We avoided bulb models since we’ve found that their tinted alcohol can get stuck and give inaccurate readings.) Most of our lineup had the option to hang from the racks or sit upright. Either way, we wanted a thermometer that was easy to position and remove for a periodic reading. In addition to ease of use, we rated the legibility of the faces and, most importantly, the models’ accuracy. Finally, to assess quality control, we purchased four copies of each thermometer and ran the entire set through testing.
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I like Lisa.
What’s a thermometer?
Can you test digital thermometers with 1 and two probes? Those programmable for the temperature of the food as well as oven temperature… thanks
Thank you for your help! My oven is consistently 30 degrees lower than advertised and I had no idea. Thanks again!
I bought WMF Oven thermometer is it a good thermometer? is it accurate?
This was perfect!
Thank you for this review. On Amazon the recent reviews say this CDN is not accurate. Maybe it’s not the real McCoy on Amazon?
The link to the thermometer you recommend doesn’t appear to be the same item. The one you show in this video is $11.97 on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/CDN-ProAccurate-Thermometer-Monitoring-Temperatures/dp/B07B52PM39/
THANKS !
Never know if to trust the oven is at the correct temp.
Just followed your link and bought your pick. hope you get some coin from Bezos for your efforts.
you forget rubbermaid brand!
It is interesting that 22% of Amazon buyers gave this model a 1 and 2 stars for its inaccuracy. Who to believe??
The glass of my thermometer cracked, can I still use it ?
Hell yes.
What I want to know is what oven is accurate?
Sadly, unless you’re American, those marking are not easy to read.
I need this watch.every time i make cook.but not good result.plz can u help me.from where we get this.bcz my oven is with out watch
What degrees are you talking Fahrenheit or Centigrade
Thanks Lisa for all your testing. I enjoy the videos. So informative!
Check tge price and shipping. The recommend item has a $6.00 shipping charge. Choose the company with the higher price with free shipping. That said this is a $13.00 oven thermometer when all is said and done. Remember. Shipping Costs Matter.
A fair number of ovens can adjust the dial if you find it doesn’t heat to temp. In other words, if you find it’s consistently heating 25 degrees low, the service manual will tell you how to adjust the screw so you are turning it to the correct mark to make the oven heat to what it reads on the dial. This was standard "back in the day," I don’t know if it’s still a feature on new ovens. I’ve only come into the 21st century recently and my new range oven heats perfectly, so I’ve not had to find out. (Yay, gas Maytag!)
Great review…Thank you !!
You very rarely see this level of detail reviewing things. Lisa is amazing and so is the test kitchen cooking school book <3
Thx
Thank you
Hi I bought the one you said was the best and I am so happy with CDN. Work like you say. Now I need a very good food processor can you suggest one that the blades are sharp and really do the job.
Some info on the rest of the thermometers would have been helpful.
The trouble for me with this CDN model is that the lowest temperature on the dial is 150F. I use my oven’s proof setting to incubate homemade yogurt and need the temp to be between 105-115F. I use the Taylor 3506 model that starts with a temp of 100F. It’s between $5.50-6.50 depending where you buy it. I found mine at target but it’s also available on amazon.
So thorough.
Can you please test digital in oven thermometers
unfortunately the thermometer doesn’t show temperatures under 150F. I need an accurate thermometer in the 100F to 150F range.
I personally like using the air temperature probe for my Chefalarm.
hi there, do you have a recommendation for a good, cheap and cheerful stainless steel chef’s knife with an edge of 15 degrees?
Thank you for the info on the best oven CDN thermometer IT has helped me a lot.
What you didn’t address and what those thermometers don’t do is read the fluctuations in oven temperatures that only an electronic thermometer can do like the ThermoWorks.
I like it
The volume is better on this video. Still not great, but it is quite a bit better than so many of the other ATK vids. It’s louder and clearer this time. I still have my volume up all the way and it should be blasting me out of my chair, but it isn’t, it finally sounds just close to normal.
how do we know if CDN didn’t sponsor you folks?
My understanding is that your oven should run a little bit hotter than the calibrated temperature of an empty oven. This is because when you do put something in the oven, like a big turkey, the object will begin to absorb the heat, and the air around the object will stay consistently cooler than the temperature of the oven walls. The oven wall is where the oven keeps track of its temperature, so in practice, the air in the oven will be cooler than it should be if you calibrate it empty. This is why if you cook a double batch of something you need to adjust for temperature or cooking time, because the effective temperature in the oven goes down the more you put in.
A standard way of calibrating an oven is to take the average of two situations — first mark the setting where the oven stays at 350 when empty, next mark the setting where the oven stays at a decently steady 350 when you put the largest thing you’d normally cook (like a big turkey), then calibrate it so that 350 is in-between those two marks.
Yea but did you have an intern verify the temperature with his tongue? That’s the true test.
I have this model of thermometer, at last I know it is reliable.Anybody knows what is the hottest or less hot spots of an oven (not convection)? The lowest rack because is closer to the flame/heating element, or the upper rack because of the hot air going up?
Will you please review rice cookers?
Sigh can you find one that’s not made in china? Please??
Could you guy do a review on hydrometers