Customer Reviews

Taylor Oven Guide Thermometer

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(11)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

The temperature readings were spot on.
There are multiple ways to display it, hang it from the shelves in your oven, place it on the bottom of your oven. it's very stable, doesn't fall over, mostly because of it's 4 inch length.

BUT... as with all things in the oven, this will become splattered with grease, and harder to read, and you'll want to wash it....DON'T!

any type of cleaning, be it abrasive , or chemical, such as Simple Green, will erase the temperature markings... and make it useless.

The temperature markings on this thermometer are not protected! Over time the markings get occluded by grease and if you try to wash the grease off the markings come with it. This means the thermometer has a short life span for people who rely on the markings for anything (which granted is not everyone). Last time I buy an oven thermometer in which the markings don't sit behind a glass face!.

I bought one of these at the recommendation of a well-known cooking magazine (in which they tested it along with a very advanced temperature sensor), and it took top honors amongst a dozen other models. I've found it to be extremely helpful, easy to read, and a very stable design. Others I have used have proven far to easy to knock over!

Ok... oven not seeming to be hot enough... bought an oven thermometer at Kroger's.. not expensive. Well, that purchase didn't seem to heat up as much as the oven..
Went to William and Sonoma and bought the Taylor 503, much more expensive. So it should really be good, right? That thermometer seemed to be so, so slow in reaction. And thanks to the position of my oven light.. I couldn't even read it.
Went to Amazon and got an overnight delivery of the Taylor Oven Guide Thermometer. ( don't add all of this up...three thermometers.. it's ridiculous)Bottom line... this one was perfect for me. As far as complaints of grease and cleaning and losing lettering?? I take it out before I put the item in to bake. (Hint..use tongs to remove it as it is HOT. If you use mitts or hot pads.. I guarantee you.. you will drop it.)

I just received my Taylor Oven Guide Thermometer. I wanted an accurate thermometer to check/verify various temperature settings in our 36" Wolf Gas oven.

The thermometer itself is simple and appears to be high quality. Upon checking the thermometer out further I noticed that the glass thermometer rod slides back and forth, left and right, on the stainless steel holder, thus accuracy goes right out the window perhaps by as much as + or - 15 degrees. What I did to correct this was hold the blue bulb end of the thermometer in boiling water and made adjustments until the blue line and the metal scale on the thermometer were aligned exactly at 212 degrees F (the boiling point of water). Next, without moving the glass rod, I locked it in place on the stainless steel scale with small dabs of high temp gasket cement on each end where the small rivets and holding bands are located.

Taylor Products: If you are reading this please make a note that the Taylor Oven Guide Thermometer has a manufacturing/design defect. The Taylor Oven Guide Thermometer with shipping was fairly expensive. The customer should not be expected to have to calibrate and then cement the glass tube to prevent sliding or back and forth movement in this type of thermometer.

If this thermometer came calibrated +/- .5 degrees and locked in I'd given it 5 stars.

I use this for baking polymer clay items in a toaster oven. Polymer clay requires very precise temperatures, and the typical dial oven thermometers were not only very very slow to register temp changes, but also inaccurate. My beads would eithe rcomout burned or undrebaked.This one shows temperature changes immediately, sits conveniently at the back of the oven. With this one there have been no more burned beads!

I also bought this due to the first choice recommendation of Cook's Illustrated magazine. I suppose it is accurate as I don't have a professional temperature gauge to test it. It's stable when laid flat and you can hang it as well. The BIG problem is that the ink on the markings fade over time, either due to the high temp in the oven or something else. Grease also get splattered all over and impossible to remove. I rubbed it with a Brio pad but couldn't remove much stain though the ink faded even more. It's practically useless now, just sitting in my oven as I couldn't see the markings unless I took it out and look at it closely.

I bought this product because it was reviewed by a test kitchen and they said it was the best. I saw some of the reviews about the problem with the paint coming off and felt that it was just sore grapes from people that did not like the test kitchen. Well, it was not sore grapes. I used this thing once. Went to clean it and ALL the numbers rubed off. What a piece of junk!

I like this thermometer and it gives me an accurate temp. for the oven. The only thing that I wish was better is the size of the numbers on the degree number line. They are on the small size and rather hard to read without pulling the tehermometer out of the oven.

All of the lower rated reviews are absolutely true. I've used this thermometer for several months and it is hard to read the numbers and also the "mercury" in the thermometer to tell what the temperature really is. It gets dirty with grease splatter and thus it's hard to read. I washed it by hand with 409 and a sponge with the misplaced hope that the numbers would survive; they didn't. Also, when I washed it the glass rod slid in the metal holders / clamps so any calibration that it had was no longer valid. I am now testing how hot my trash can gets in the S. Calif sun. I'm not buy this item again. Burn me once, .....