Has anyone used this with an oven with no window? Any techniques on how to get an accurate reading? My apartment oven is very old: no timer.
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My oven has a window, but this things is so impossible to read, you have to take it out and hold it just right to get a reading.
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I have a window but still couldn't read the thermometer. I put it in the middle of the oven on a rack and then preheated the oven. Then I opened the oven and pulled the shelf out very quickly. Found out my oven is 25 degrees off and I didn't feel that opening the door made that much difference. My food didn't cook in the time allocated before thermometer so reading was in line with my findings.
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Without a window you'll need to open the door to read it which can reduce the temperature which then requires longer cooking times. For cakes and breads try not to open the oven until they are more than halfway done so that cold room air does not interfere with the rising.
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My light does not work in my oven so I have to open the door to see the reading. I open the door and look at it immediately.
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set up the thermometer towards the front of your oven door. Take it out quickly with a hot pad....and read. That should give a ballpark reading.
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I'd be impressed if it were reliable inside first. The timer on mine stopped working the day after my return window expired. Just a heads up.
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my oven will not reach the tempterature you set it for. do i need a oven sensor
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This therometer should not be left in the oven! It's designed as instant read, not continuous. It will melt.
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I recommend that you do what I did. When I first tried to use mine I found it to be off by at least 25 deg. Throw it away it's not worth messing with, then I went to a local restaurant supply and bought an analog thermometer that always works for the same amount. Your experience prove to me that my decision was the right one. Problem solved. David B.
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I have the same oven. There is a way to adjust the temperature. You will need an oven thermometer. I put one in the oven and turned it on to 200, then checked the temperature. If correct, turn up to 350 then check. Keep raising temperature to check it at all degrees. In the manual, it tells you step by step how to adjust the temperature control behind the knob. Try that to see if what the knob is set to is actually the temperature inside the oven. It may need to be adjusted, hope this helps !
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Frankly, I wouldn't. I've used this one for many years in the oven and recommend it for that purpose, but it's not 100% accurate and not as sensitive as an alcohol-based glass thermometer for example. For something like cheese-making where a few degrees make a difference, I'd stick with a thermometer with a narrower, but more precise, range.
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I would say you could get a pretty good reading as long as you take the temp reading from one of the parts of the oven that doe not have a real shine to it. Even if you purchased this and it didn't work on this particular situation you will find a bunch of other times you will use it later. That is after you get done taking the temp of everything in your site when you first get it , Ha
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Yes, put one probe for measuring the oven temperature near mid-height in oven and the other into the food. Mine showed my oven was was actually 35°F hotter than what was set on the dial and explained why cookies got burned so easily. Adjusted dial, no more burned cookies.
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Needle moves fairly quickly. What's your hurry? Put thermometer in when you begin pre-heating the oven. I found it to be very accurate. I am very happy with mine.
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to Markmurto, have you adapted NuWave recipes to this oven? I have the Oyama arriving tomorrow, since it is non-halgen and supposedly short on recipes and all the cookbooks for this type oven are halogen inspred, I'm thinking I'll be "creatively adapting" all my regular cooking times/temps with this oven. I did not want halogen because of burnt/exploding bulb/burnt socket issues I've read with the halogens. Any answer from you (or others) is appreciated, thank you!
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I set a timer and go to a different room. Be careful because it might vibrate itself off the counter. I find that the ingredients stick to the sides so the first 5 minutes or so I scrape them down with a spatula or plastic spoon. Then it seems to work better.
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I have never used it to check oven temperature. I bought it to check the air temperature from the ac vent. It works fine. I would not say it's very accurate. I would accept + - 1 or 2 degree.
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Erica, the probe has a long, very thin, flexible cable that is connected to the timer/monitor device. You stick the probe into the item being cooked, put it in the oven, probe attached, with the cable coming out the oven door, connected to the timer which will sit on a shelf or counter near or oven, or can attach to the oven, etc. by magnet on the unit's back. So you don't have to keep opening the oven door, etc. to check temperature while cooking.
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It has a small round oven thermometer in the upper right corner of the enclosed oven. It works very well, sometimes it's a little foggy due to condensed steam on the overlying window but I like it. I suppose it's possible that it reads a bit hotter than the lower parts of the oven, especially before the whole oven has heated up.
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This is not the type of thermometer that you leave in the oven with what ever your baking. With this type you have to open the oven once in a while and stick the probe in meatiest part to get the correct temp. After you get a reading you pull it out, turn it off and clean the metal probe, put it back in its sleeve and wait to use it again.
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I haven't tried an oven thermometer yet (good idea) but so far everything that I've tried in it has cooked/baked according to the suggested time and temperature in recipes. Of course, I most often use it for toasting English muffins for breakfast or grilled cheese in the evening, so exact temps have never been an issue.