Hotloop Digital Oven Thermometer Heat Resistant up to 572°F/300°C, LCD

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.

This thermometer is of very poor quality. It's appearance is very cheap, with two separate wires running from the display to the probe, rather that a single coaxial cable. There is no bracket to fix the probe in the oven. Worst of all, the accuracy of the thermometer is terrible, reading 576 F when the temperature of the oven was set to 400 F. I bought this thermometer because it seems like my oven runs 15-20 F low. There is no way it is running 176 F high. I would return it, but the low cost makes it not worth the hassle of returning it.

I really didn’t expect much, but it’s been a great purchase & excellent value. It was able to get up to temperature very fast in my oven and there was a long enough cable there that seemed to be a very good quality because it withstood 500°F in my oven for an hour. Good value and it’s been very helpful to diagnose heating issues with our oven.

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.

I needed an oven temperature reading that I could see without opening the oven door. This did the job, after a slight modification. Explanation: there is really no such thing as oven temperature. The oven itself has a thermostat. When the thermostat thinks the oven is too cool, it turns on the full heat. When the thermostat thinks the oven is warm enough, it turn off the heat. If the oven is set to 350F, then the air near the heating element will probably vary from 300F to 500F. The air near the thermostat will probably vary from 325 to 375. What actually matters is the temperature of the pie in the middle of the oven. The problem with this Hotloop Digital Oven Thermometer is that it is too responsive. Its probe measures the temperature of the air near the probe, and that varies a lot. To make the probe measure something that a baker thinks of as "oven temperature", it needs to measure the temperature of something massive enough that it will stay at about 350 while the air around it varies as noted above. In my college science classes this was called "thermal mass" and the effect was called "thermal inertia". I bought some "J-B Weld 8297 HighHeat 550 Degree Epoxy Putty Sticks". It's sold for tasks like muffler repair. Regular epoxy does not like high temperatures, and epoxy that is not putty has the texture of cold maple syrup. I used the epoxy putty to make a slug about the size and shape of my thumb, and buried the probe inside that slug. When the epoxy hardened, I put the encased probe inside the oven and attached the Hotloop Digital Oven Thermometer to a nearby surface with "BRAVESHINE Sticky Back Coins with Adhesive Double Sided Removable Interlocking Tape Pads" . It works like a charm. The epoxy putty slug holds enough heat that the thermometer reads the average temperature and not the up-and-down variations caused by the way thermostats work. One interesting learning experience: I left the Hotloop turned on while the epoxy was curing around its probe, and saw the probe temperature rise to about 95F in a minute or two and then gradually cool back down during the "cures in 1 hour" interval. I had not known that epoxy curing was exothermic.

This unit if it works was not calibrated correctly. I bought it, put it in the electric oven and when it starts to reach 400 degrees F, it reads 572 degrees F. I know that is not true otherwise my food would have been burnt after cooking for an hour.

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.

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

I bought this along with a manual dial-type thermometer to check that my oven was heating correctly; I wanted to double check my findings before spending money on expensive oven repair. This digital thermometer's readings were confirmed by the manual thermometer so I am convinced it measures temperature accurately. Small and simple to use. Wish it had a little stand of some sort to support the probe in the oven since it is a little tricky draping it over a rack so that it doesn't touch anything that would distort the readings Overall, I would highly recommend for quick, accurate temperature readings in oven.