Kitchen Oven Thermometer Stainless Steel Monitoring Cooking Thermometer, 100 to 600 degrees F Temperature Range (2PCS)

I got these to use in my smoker to really dial in the exact temperature I wanted. I figured they would get ruined after a few smokings so I go 6 of them. 6 for $20 bucks is a killer deal. Well it turns out that using these in my smoker is not going to work as I planned. I do not have a glass door on my smoker and in order to check these you have to open up the smoker and let all the heat and smoke out. “If your looking you’re not cooking”. Yes, I’m still learning how to smoke stuff, so this idea I had with the thermometers wasn’t the best. I mounted an external thermometer on my smoker and that gives me a good reading without opening the smoker. If I decide to do some roasting, these will come in handy. I put a couple in my double oven just to check the temperature. They seem to work fine. Amazon is giving me a $3 coupon to write this review. That will give you an idea about the type person I am. Yes, I’m a cheap bastard. But I also like to write reviews because other people’s reviews really help me. I’m going with 4 stars because I really don’t know how well these work in a cooking situation yet. But, like I said, 6 for $20 bucks is a good deal.

I’m not thrilled with this oven thermometer. If you put it in the front of the oven you don’t get an accurate temp and if you put it in the middle it hangs down too far and you can’t set it on the oven rack. Fortunately my oven is large but if you have a small oven it will be a problem.

Works well. Have tested it against other thermometers on grills and ovens as well as instant reads. Seems to be very consistent and accurate for my needs.

Work great!

I put both of these in the oven at the same time and they read about 15-20 degrees different from each other and about 50 degrees colder than what the oven claimed to be. I would assume the oven isn't too accurate and the thermometers are more likely to be closer to the real temperature but I'm obviously not sure. If they had both shown the exact same temperature I'd gave felt confident that they were accurate but as they didn't they're not much good if you need an accurate temperature. But hey they look good on the shelf!

For the longest time my wife would complain how both stoves kept burning food. I purchased these two thermostats to be used in both ovens and lo-and-behold, both oven thermostats turned out to be "right on" with their digital temperature gauges. So now we are blaming the internal timer/clock!!

It is difficult to read

They sent two of these and the temperature they give while in the oven at the same time are 15° different.