"Ophelia" > wrote in
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> "KenK" > wrote in message
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>> This morning I picked up a Taylor TruTemp #3506 oven dial
>> thermometer. A few minutes ago I tried to find some reviews. All I
>> Googled in the first few screens that looked appropriate was Amazon
>> and the reviews there were really terrible. Did I blow $4 or are they
>> really not that bad? If they are, recommendations for a locally
>> available oven thermometer, hopefully accurate to say plus/minus 10
>> or 15 degrees F or so?
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> I just bought a Taylor which is great ... but I got a probe thermo.
> Have you actually tried it, or are you just going by the reviews?
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I tried it yesterday. Kenmore Elite combination MW/convection oven set at
425. Thermometer said 400 after preheat. Don't know which is wrong -
perhaps both. Which brings to mind the question of how important exact or
even close oven heat is when someone here says even the temperature
between parts of the oven interior are different. A whole new can of
worms. My mother, and grandmother, for a while at least, successfully
cooked with the oven in a wood stove - no thermometer, heat control,
whatever.



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