OXOGood Grips Oven Thermometer

Great thermometer - seems to be accurate. I appreciate that you can either hang it from a rack or set it on a rack - good versatility. Great for accurately tracking oven or grill temperatures.

After being disappointed by other oven thermometers I was delighted to find this one. It is the best. Most important of all this is dead accurate. Set my oven for 350, and after the oven reached temp, the needle on this was dead on 350. Other thermometers I have used are all over the place from 320 to 380 (even the touted Kitchen Aid read anywhere from 370 or 325!)And this is VERY easy to read through the oven window.But also imporant is the design for hanging or standing which is perfect - many options and ALL well done. Good sized base for standing without falling through the rack. The "foldover hanger" s not too wide to fit between rack wires (the KitchenAid hanger is too wide). The "side hook" option is bigger and better than any other.Couldn't be better. In short, don't buy any other.

The thermometer is mainly accurate and hangs nicely from the oven grates. Works great!

I ran a test on four oven thermometers in my KitchenAid oven. The four thermometer brands are the Oxy, Admetior , AcuRite 00620A2, and Rubbermaid. I used a Fluke 87V meter to record the actual oven temperatures.Background: A residential kitchen oven regulates the temperature to about +/- 30°F (degrees Fahrenheit) of setpoint. That means that a setpoint of 300°F will drift between 270°F and 330°F as the oven heating element turns on and off. The oven display shows a constant 300°F even though the actual temperature is varying inside the oven. The on cycle is about three minutes and the off cycle is about seven minutes. This gives an average temperature equal to the setpoint without constantly turning the elements on and off.The question is, “What do I want the oven thermometer to read as the temperature drifts”?My answer: I believe a cook wants the thermometer to read the average setpoint temperature with as little up and down on the reading as possible. If the thermometer chases the drifting temperature, the cook is going to think the oven temperature is always too high or too low depending on where the oven is in the 10-minute heat/cool cycle. So a higher lag time gives a better average, constant reading.Here are the results I recorded:1. Fluke meter; Actual temperature through the 10 minute heat/cool cycle. 293°-350°F. That gives an average temperature of 321.5°F which corresponds to the oven setpoint of 320°F and nicely shows the 57°F swing in temperature that the oven experiences even though the cook does not realize that is happening.2. Oxy; Monitored temperature was 302°-320°F with an average reading of 311°F and a swing of 18°F.3. Rubbermaid; Monitored temperature swing was 284°-320°F with an average reading of 302°F and a swing of 36°F.4. AcuRite; Monitored temperature swing was 280°-322°F with an average reading of 301°F and a swing of 42°F.5. Admetior; Monitored temperature swing was 292°-346°F with an average reading of 319°F and a swing of 54°F.6. Note: All meters gave an accurate reading if the temperature was held constant. The issue is the difference in lag time in making a reading.Analyzing the results:1. For accuracy, the Admetior was superior. It lagged the actual reading by about two minutes but tracked the temperature inside the oven. However, I think a cook would go crazy watching the temperature vary all the time.2. For holding the reading to a minimum swing, the Oxy thermometer was by far the best at 18°F. The average was 9°F low but a cook would think the oven temperature was ok as the temperature moved from 302°-320°F on a 320°F setpoint.3. The Rubbermaid and AcuRite not only were almost 20° low on the average, they also had large swings in readings.Other considerations.1. The Oxy has a nice large dial with a white background making it easier to see through a closed oven door. The other three units had black lettering on a metal background and were not as easy to read.2. The AcuRite degree markings need to be further out on the dial. The red pointer covers the tick marks and makes an accurate reading difficult to see.Recommendations:1. I like the Oxy thermometer best primarily because it gives a more constant reading of the varying oven temperature. It also is easy to read, has both Fahrenheit and Celsius dials, and a range from 100°-600°F. For general baking, this is what I want.2. For a thermometer with the quickest lag time that more accurately tracks a varying temperature, the Admetior is superior. I can use this thermometer to check my actual oven temperature swings but this is not what I want to see when I am baking.

I have a bit of an oven thermometer obsession. When I'm baking bread, pizza, or cookies, it drives me nuts how the oven temperature fluctuates around the target. On top of that, my old GE oven is off by about 25F at high settings and 50F at lower settings. This is a baking nightmare.I've tried 5 other oven thermometers, all of them well rated and fakespotted, and they've all had problems ranging from inaccuracy, breakage, falling off, to the paper inside burning and making the readings illegible.This Oxo oven thermometer has none of those issues. It has large, legible numbers. It stays hooked onto the rack even if I bump it. It seems accurate, albeit with the usual delay of 10 minutes or more to get a good reading. Overall I'm very happy with this.

We bought 3 thermometers to we could find out how accurate the oven is and this was the loser of the test. The Rubbermaid and CDN both agreed with each other exactly, less than a degree variance, but the OXO read 10 degrees higher than those 2 and the oven, plus it took 5 minutes longer to get to that reading. It is very slow to react so when the heat shuts off and the oven cools the other 2 tracked that temp drop very well, showing the oven cooling by nearly 30 degrees over 10 minutes but the OXO only showed a 2 degree drop in that time. This one is also hard to read through an oven window even though it is the biggest of the 3 because the marks and numbers are skinny.So to sum up, it wasn't accurate, took extra time to be wrong and hard to read the inaccurate measurement.

Works really well. Came in very handy calibrating the oven!

Large numbers are easy to read.