Taylor 1 Inch Instant Read Pocket Thermometer with Sleeve

I've only used this thermometer a few times so far, but I really like it! It is simple and easy to use. So far, I'm very happy with it!

Pros: 1) It can easily be recalibrated using the blue plastic carrying case/tool (test it using ice water, 32 F, or boiling water, 212 F at sea level). When that gets lost you can use a small wrench. Many other thermometers can't be calibrated and get tossed when they lose accuracy. The Taylor thermometer was accurate out of the box. 2) It's simple and there is no battery that can die and can cost as much as the thermometer to replace. 3) Excellent customer service. The first thermometer I received had an imperfection in the face and wasn't working properly after a month. I was ready to move on but thought I'd send them an e-mail to see if I could fix the problem, they responded and sent a replacement . All fine since then. Sure its only $6.39 but nice to find a company that stands behind their product. Another Taylor thermometer we have has lasted for years. I'll update if this one goes bad. Cons: 1) Another customer commented the face is dime-size. It is somewhat small but not dime size, it's a quarter (see my photo), but easy enough to read to within a degree accuracy. 2) It's a little slow to get a stable reading but I'm OK with that. Tested on a pan of hot water and at 10 sec it read 150F; 20 sec 160F; 30 sec 165F; 40 sec 167F and that's where it remained. So within 20-30 sec good enough for government work. I'd rather have it accurate than fast and wrong. 3) It wasn't made for the oven (it has a hard plastic face), so you have to take the meat out and then take the temperature. I haven't found this a big problem. Overall: excellent value. Because they stood behind their product I bought a second thermometer -- so I can quickly get 2 temp. readings and make sure the whole meat is at the same temp.

While the dial is small and the numbers on the dial are tiny, it has a built-in magnifier to help with reading it. If your light is overhead, this works well; but if the light is coming in from the side it doesn't work so well, with half the dial in shadow. Also, I wouldn't call it "Instant Read," as they do. You have to leave it in for quite a few seconds, which means either taking your food out of the oven and closing the oven door; or letting a lot of heat into your kitchen while you wait for the needle to stop moving. The dial says "NOT OVEN SAFE" and the listing says the lens/magnifier is plastic; so you can't leave it in the oven with your food. Given The caveats, though, it does work well and I would expect it to do so for many years. The dial reads from 0º - 220º F; so you could use this to check your refrigerator, freezer or even room temp.

Great!! Esp for $8!! Thank you!! I'm using these thermometers as incubator thermometers for hatching eggs and they are the ONLY accurate and proveably accurate ones I got out of 3 digital thermometer/hygrometer brands. I tested 2 of this brand in frozen ice water and can't complain, read 32-33 degrees. It just takes a while in the environment to read correctly. Really appreciate the red strip mark at 100f for quick visibility. And easy 4 notch marks for 2 degree temp incriment visibility which I need! 100-103 could be life or death with hatching eggs in incubator. Buying more as backups. Thank you, you saved my hatching eggs from the other thermometers lol.

My family has been using this thermometer at least once a week for the last two years, and it is still very accurate. It shows the same temperature as friends' digital thermometers when they've both been placed in the same piece of meat or water. We still calibrate it before most uses by placing it in an ice water bath and adjusting it to freezing temp, but much adjustment is not usually necessary. Although it is a basic thermometer and does not come with fancy features that electronic thermometers have, it is very useful. I will caution you to take the food out of the oven before using this thermometer as it is not designed to stay in the oven with the food.

Garbage. Doesn’t work. Tested meat with a different thermometer and the reads were different. It didn’t get the correct temp. Tried to contact Amazon but having difficulties.

It doesn't give the desired temperatures for the meats. It just has temperatures on it. Very poor design.

Works good. Temp gauge is smaller then expected. But it works good

This thermometer is easy to read and sits well in the conditioned air outlets in vehicles. It is accurate and , at the price point I paid, not worth losing any sleep over if it gets broken or lost.

El termómetro funciona bien, tal vez le hace falta una pinza para poder sujetarlo a una jarra pero su estuche lo hace versátil, es pequeño (en realidad tiene la apariencia de un bolígrafo), y es calibrable con su mismo estuche.

Does the job accurately.

Chegou sem funcionar, parece que o ponteiro marcador do grau estava solto

Excelente producto, con mucha precisión. Lamentablemente no tiene doble escala de medición, sólo °F.