On 31 Dec 2003 at 21:18, Peter Cook wrote:

> Anyone encounter this? My electric oven is lined with quarry tiles
> since I bake a lot of bread. I use a Taylor thermometer to measure the
> temp, and when the tiles are in the oven, the thermometer reads
> significantly lower than the oven's digital readout after preheating.
> At lower temperatures (300), the difference is about 60 degrees. At
> higher temperatures (475), it's about 25 degrees.
>
> When the tiles are removed, the readout and the thermometer are within
> 3 or 4 degrees. I keep the thermometer close to the oven's temperature
> sensor, so they are measuring temperature at the same location in the
> oven.

Interesting. I had some problems with my oven when I lined the
shelves with quarry tile. The issue was I tiled the shelves from edge to
edge, from front to back. This interfered with air movement to too
great an extent. As a result, I re-tiled so that there is a 2" gap around
the sides of the tiles on the bottom shelf, and a 1" gap on the top shelf.
The temperatures seem to be much more even now.

Mike
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