Black Hotloop Digital Oven Thermometer

I bought two of these. One for my higher end AGA Pro oven at home and one for a Jenn Air range at a weekend cabin. The Jenn Air is generally considered a good quality unit, but not on par with the AGA Pro. Having the hotloops in two in different ovens has provided me with a good insight into these units. After about a month of use in both ovens the units appear to be working well. That said, these are are cheap thermometers - not high end by any means - so I am sure there are some valid issues with people getting lemons, but personally I think that some of the negative reviews reflect more on the user's ovens or unrealistic user expectations than the thermometers themselves. Use: To install I tied the cable with a loose single overhand knot to the middle rack in both ovens so the sensor hangs in the air space about where the food cooks. In this application, the sensor reads the air temp inside the oven and not the temp of the surfaces inside the oven. The door closes easily over the thin but insulated wires and the unit is placed on the counter next to the stove. These have an on/off switch, but I have just left these on. They have been running for over a month using a single battery. There is one review about these not being suitable as oven thermometers because they don't show the running average. That is true, but the item description does not say the units have this feature and personally I would rather know the actual current temp at all times. Accuracy: Some reviews have said these are not accurate based on what they see from their oven or based on readings with an analog thermometer...both of which are notoriously inaccurate. I have tested these with a high quality digital instant read thermometer that maxes out at 375 degrees. They showed comparable readings (+/- 5 degrees) up to 350 degrees. I have also tested this with a infrared thermometer "gun". The IR thermometer reads the temp of the oven surface not the air in the oven so the readings are not exactly the same but are comparable up to 450, which is the highest I have tested. Based on my tests these seem more than adequate for home cooking and baking. Real world use: The AGA Pro is a great oven but just has an analog temp setting dial with no temp read out. Using a standard analog oven thermometer we notice it was about 20 degrees hotter than the dial setting. I purchased the hotloop unit so I can more accurately know the air temp of the oven for baking. In the AGA Pro, once the oven comes to temperature it basically stays rock solid. There is very little air temperature variation between thermostat cycles once the oven is solidly preheated and the door stays closed. The story very is different in the Jenn Air. The Jenn Air has digital controls that let you set specific temps and also a digital read out that purports to show the oven temp. In use, the hotloop unit shows the same temp as the Jenn Air readout as it preheats -usually within a degree or two - but once the preheat cycle is done the oven beeps and the oven readout shows that the oven stays at the set point. The hotloop readout fluctuates around, quite a bit. I originally thought that I had one bad unit, but I switched them out and both behave the same in the different ovens, so I am confident the issue is with the ovens, not the thermometers. Because I bake in both ovens, I suspected there were some issues with the Jenn Air that the hotloop unit helped confirm. As an example, this weekend I put the oven on 200 to keep something warm. Once preheated, the oven beeped and showed a it was 200 degrees, but the hotpoint kept rising to about 255 degrees. Later I was making a roast and I had it set to 400 degrees convection. As the oven preheated, the hotloop and oven readouts tracked the same. As the oven reached the setpoint it beeped and showed a temp of 400 as the hotloop went up to 415. When I put in the roast, the oven continued to show 400 while the hotloop showed temps decreased (the air temp drops sharply when the door is open). The oven elements kicked back on when the hotloop read 340 and then only ever went back up to 385, although the oven display showed all the while a it was 400 degrees. Some of this may be because the thermostat in the oven is inside the metal casing, but I think the computer controlled Jenn Air is programed to lie to you about the temperature to make it appear more stable than it really is. The hotloop unit has helped to mitigate this problem and improved my baking with this particular oven. Summary: These are good units for the price. Expectations should be tempered given these are very simple and cheaply made units, but they do a good job showing the instantaneous temperature of the air inside the oven and are more than adequate for baking.

AVOID! Wish I had read the recent reviews before purchasing. This thermometer is super inaccurate for high temp readings. As the oven heats up (in my case the oven was set to 380° for the test) this thermometer just shoots up rapidly until peaking out and alternating back and forth between 575.5°-576.5°. Another digital temp gauge set next to it in the same oven showed 375°. Finally I had also put an old school analog thermometer inside the oven and that one shows ~378°. 576.5° degrees appears to be it's max display. On a whim I tested this thermometer and another digital thermometer in my fridge and they both showed roughly equal numbers, so I guess this thing works in your fridge or freezer, but it's USELESS for ovens. Also for some reason it has two wires from the display to the temp sensor, not one as pictured in the listing.

I found this digital thermometer to work quite well for calibrating our ovens. It was very easy to use and a good value. I used a twist tie to attach the probe in the center of my oven and then did the calibration procedure for the oven. It took some time for everything to balance out, but now the oven temperature is much close to the set point and cooking times for recipes is more accurate.

This unit is setuo for a panel mount. Also it is not set up for use as a meat thermometer. It would be good as an oven air temp sensor which is what is for. Might work on a grill but a grill may be too hot for it. Smoker would likely be ok. Only the themocouple at the end of the wires need be inside the oven. The wires are not braided together/connected or sleeved. Will be using 6mm fiberglass heat shield sleeving to install on our oven that does not have a temp guage. It seems to work well and it does our job but, the discription needs to be corrected. It is not NSF certified for meat thermometer.

Gets on the way..oven set 350 thermometer was. Up tp 450.

My landlord "blessed" us with an older than dirt oven. There are no digital displays on said oven, so we needed this device to know the exact temp. For about 4 months it worked like a charm. I just wrapped the metal censor around the edge of one of the racks in the oven, and set the little plastic part on my counter. I also used it to read the internal temp of meat. It isn't a fancy device, there are no alerts to tell you when a desired temp is met, it just tells you the temp. After about 4 months the readings became inaccurate, and eventually you couldn't read it at all. I tried changing the battery to no avail. To be fair, I could have caused the problem. The plastic part did take on quite a few splashes while on my counter. I thought that a kitchen device would be able to withstand a little water, but unfortunately this thing did not. It was also inconvenient having it on the edge of the counter. The wire wasn't long enough to set it far back out of the way, so it was bumped off the counter several times. If you need it to read internal meat temp, and it spends most of its life in a drawer, it's probably a good buy. If you need it to verify oven temp, get something more durable that can withstand life on a kitchen counter.

Works like it should I find it useful I. My baking as I have a tempemental iven

Terrible. I’ve been having issues with my lower oven so wanted to be able to verify with a separate oven thermometer. When the oven was set at 350, the thermometer read 575. Blaming my oven, I tried the thermometer in my upper oven which has been working fine. Same thing, upper oven at 350, this thermometer reading 575. Wondering still if it’s an oven issue, I tried it with my toaster oven. Same exact thing. At this point I can safely conclude this is a thermometer issue and I’m sending back.

Easy to use. Does just what I wanted it to do - check my gas oven was heating to the correct temperature

Funcional, está bien. Es lo que es y para eso sirve, quizás un poco corta la sonda.

Vielfältig. Große Anzeigen. Für Alle Einsätze wo man Temperatur messen will.

This is the most accurate sensor for the oven I've ever had.

Thermometre ne donne pas le bonne température donne une température supérieur de 7 degré