Inferno Stove Top Meter (3-30) Magnetic surface thermometer calibrated to measure temperatures on stove top. Rich black porcelain enamel. Stylish new design featuring gray, white, and orange recommended burn-temperature zones. Helps you conserve wood and avoid excess creosote. Quality manufactured in our North Carolina factory.

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Product Features

• Durable genuine porcelain enamel.
• Easy to read
• Made in the USA.
• Rugged steel case for long life.
• Calibrated specifically for Stove Top use

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B002SC323K
• Item model number: 3-30
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,110 in Home & Garden (See Top 100 in Home & Garden)
  • #7 in Home & Garden > Home Décor > Fireplaces & Accessories

Product Description

Magnetic surface thermometer calibrated to measure temperatures on stove top. Rich black porcelain enamel. Stylish new design featuring gray, white, and orange recommended burn-temperature zones. Helps you conserve wood and avoid excess creosote. Quality manufactured in our North Carolina factory.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for any wood stove operator, November 14, 2010

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PickyGuy (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Inferno Stove Top Meter (3-30) Magnetic surface thermometer calibrated to measure temperatures on stove top. Rich black porcelain enamel. Stylish new design featuring gray, white, and orange recommended burn-temperature zones. Helps you conserve wood and avoid excess creosote. Quality manufactured in our North Carolina factory.

OK, so this is only a thermometer so I won't write a long review, but I have to say that this little device helps me operate my wood stove better. It helps me know when I have the stove "overfired" or when I need to add more wood and turn up the oxygen. We've named the zones "Papa Bear" (too hot), Mama Bear (too cold) and Baby Bear (just right). Yeah . . . I know, but I have young kids.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hot Item, February 21, 2011

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Alan Taylor - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Inferno Stove Top Meter (3-30) Magnetic surface thermometer calibrated to measure temperatures on stove top. Rich black porcelain enamel. Stylish new design featuring gray, white, and orange recommended burn-temperature zones. Helps you conserve wood and avoid excess creosote. Quality manufactured in our North Carolina factory.

I purchased two of these for our wood stoves at the cottage. They really help you burn at a safe level which in turn conserves wood and avoids excess creosote as they say. The only suggestion, and I don't know if it can be done, is to make the arrow a bright color so it is easier to see in dim lighting conditions. I would rather not turn on a light just to read the stove temperature. If the arrow were brighter, I would definetely give it 5 *****

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, not perfect, October 16, 2011

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Bob the Wheelbuilder - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Inferno Stove Top Meter (3-30) Magnetic surface thermometer calibrated to measure temperatures on stove top. Rich black porcelain enamel. Stylish new design featuring gray, white, and orange recommended burn-temperature zones. Helps you conserve wood and avoid excess creosote. Quality manufactured in our North Carolina factory.

I bought this thermometer for use with my Jotul wood stove to monitor stove temperatures. The stove literature says that the stove should be operated between 400 and 600 degrees (F) for best results and the break in instructions recommended 3 fires to temperatures of 200, 300 and 400 degrees, so I decided I'd better have a thermometer.

I initially bought an Inferno stove _pipe_ thermometer at a stove store because that was all they had. Once I read the instructions for that thermometer, they said it wasn't recommended for stove _top_ use, so I bought this thermometer online. The recommendation is apparently because of the temperature range markings, not because of any difference in the thermometers actual performance. Once I had the chance to compare the two, both of the thermometers read very similar temperatures, this one has the correct ideal range (400-600) labeled on it. The stove pipe thermometer would be fine if you use the temperature, not the colored zones marked on the thermometer. The two appear to be identical except for the painted range.

I'm a tool geek, so I also bought an infrared thermometer (Kintrex) to check my two stove thermometers. The IR thermometer works quickly and seems to be very accurate. It shows that when the stove is warming up, the Inferno thermometers lag by as much as 50-100 degrees. Once the stove temperature has stabilized, they agree with the IR measurement very well. Another thing the Kintrex thermometer shows is that each of the four corners of the stove can be a very different temperature as the stove is heating up. This variance can be 100 degrees or even more. Once the stove is up to temperature, the four corners will be within 10-20 degrees of each other.

As long as you remember there will be a lag while the stove is heating up and the fact that one corner's temperature alone isn't going to be an exact representation of the whole stove temperature, this should be a useful tool as you learn to use your stove.