Cook Rite, 90300, Oven Thermometer, Stainless Steel
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cook Rite, 90300, Oven Thermometer, Stainless Steel
Customer Review: Good, bad, fine - hard to say.
Summary: 3 Stars
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?
Customer Review: Not very accurate
Summary: 3 Stars
The good: Well built and easy to read.
The bad: Poor accuracy.
I had an oven that was running hot. I purchased two of these and put them next to each other in a preheated oven. One settled in at 330 degrees and the other at 350. So these thermometers are not really accurate enough for oven calibration. As others have noted, they also respond slowly, presumably because of the fully enclosed design. In all fairness, I should add that the oven control was set at 290, so resetting the oven thermostat using either thermometer will save a lot of burned cookies.
Customer Review: product quality
Summary: 3 Stars
Thermometer worked functional well but when I moved the unit in the oven from the rack. BTW - it was hanging. The top hanger broke off at the spot welds that attach the hook. Guess I will have to have it repaired.Customer Review: Thermostat is very inaccurate
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Disappointing -- a 15-year-old device was more accurate
Summary: 1 Stars
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.
I spent a week with this new thermometer, trying to compensate for every varaiable I could. But empty oven, partially full oven, thermometer carefully balanced on rack in middle position, or suspended from rack in 2nd groove from top -- nothing I tried gave me a consistent reading. I kept the oven door shut and the light on when running each test. 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.
Well, it turns out the oven is a constant approximately 5 degrees slow (underheated), according to a couple of thermometers I borrowed, one of which was at least 15 years old. This is something that any oven thermometer should have made evident with the first test.
Note added November 2009: It seems there has been a name/brand change since my purchase, as Amazon now links my review to "Cook Rite 90300." I'm not sure whether that means more recently produced thermometers have been better calibrated or otherwise had better quality checks.