OXO Good 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.

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.

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.

This set up well in our oven. I don't have the tools to truly test its accuracy, but based our usage, it seems to be working well. We really appreciate the multiple options for positioning it. It is fairly easy to read. It feels pretty hefty, and I suspect it will be durable.

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

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Oxo quality good price

I believe my new oven is baking much too hot so I bought this thermometer to help me understand my oven’s temps. It arrived today. I opened the package and put it right in my oven. When the oven indicated it was heated to 350F, the thermometer inside showed it was 250. 🤨When my cookies came out completely over baked, the thermometer had yet to reach 350. Needless to say, it doesn’t seem to be at all accurate. That was a waste of money.

See headline. I put this in my new toaster oven to test accuracy of oven. Oven read 450, I put thermometer in and it took a full 15 minutes for it to read 420. I assume my new toaster oven was off, not the thermometer