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Steve Calvin
 
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Default Oven Temperature Standard?

Bob Giel wrote:
> How much can an oven's temperature vary and still give good results?
>
> If set at 350 degrees F., what is the most it should go above or below the
> set temperature?
> Is there actually a standard or "generally accepted range"?
> Is the acceptable range a percentage of the target temperature (e.g. up or
> down 5%) or is it an absolute (e.g. up or down 10 degrees F maximum?)
>
> My oven is way out of whack, can vary as much as 150 degrees too low and 39
> degrees
> too high when set at 250 deg F (yep, down to 100 and up to 289!) and +/- 70
> degrees when set at 350.


Boy. Good question Bob and I don't know the definative
answer but given your temperature swing, I'd say that you
have serious problems. My GE electric varies plus or minus
5dF according to an unbias oven thermometer.

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Steve

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