Taylor Precision Products Instant Read Analog Meat Food Grill BBQ Cooking Kitchen Thermometer with Red Pocket Sleeve for Calibration, 1 inch dial,…

Pros:
1) It can easily be recalibrated using the blue plastic carrying case/tool (test it using ice water, 32 F, or boiling water, 212 F at sea level). When that gets lost you can use a small wrench. Many other thermometers can’t be calibrated and get tossed when they lose accuracy. The Taylor thermometer was accurate out of the box.
2) It’s simple and there is no battery that can die and can cost as much as the thermometer to replace.
3) Excellent customer service. The first thermometer I received had an imperfection in the face and wasn’t working properly after a month. I was ready to move on but thought I’d send them an e-mail to see if I could fix the problem, they responded and sent a replacement . All fine since then. Sure its only $6.39 but nice to find a company that stands behind their product. Another Taylor thermometer we have has lasted for years. I’ll update if this one goes bad.

Cons:
1) Another customer commented the face is dime-size. It is somewhat small but not dime size, it’s a quarter (see my photo), but easy enough to read to within a degree accuracy.
2) It’s a little slow to get a stable reading but I’m OK with that. Tested on a pan of hot water and at 10 sec it read 150F; 20 sec 160F; 30 sec 165F; 40 sec 167F and that’s where it remained. So within 20-30 sec good enough for government work. I’d rather have it accurate than fast and wrong.
3) It wasn’t made for the oven (it has a hard plastic face), so you have to take the meat out and then take the temperature. I haven’t found this a big problem.

Overall: excellent value. Because they stood behind their product I bought a second thermometer — so I can quickly get 2 temp. readings and make sure the whole meat is at the same temp.

Este termómetro funciona bien el único detalle es que no me cercioré al comprarlo, por ser importado de EEUU, la medida de temperatura es en grados Fahrenheit, no es nada difícil de acostumbrarse, es sólo hacer una pequeña conversión y ya tienes la temperatura equivalente en grados centigrados o celsius, pero si hubiese sido mucho más cómodo que viniera en la medida de temperatura común en todo el resto del mundo que no usa medidas inglesas, en caso de que se caiga y se pueda llegar a desajustar, la misma funda azul funciona como una llave para ajustar la aguja. En resumen:

Pros:
+ Funciona correctamente

Cons:

– Usa grados Fahrenheit

As advertised

If you’re buying this for your garage freezer don’t the plastic cover dogs up so you can’t read it. It work great though when bbqing chicken

using it as a second temp indicator in an incubator.. conducted a cold/hot calibration and it was so close to perfect. It is easily adjustable w/the underside nut..