CDNIRXL220 Large Dial Cooking Thermometer

Calling all chicken people! This is what you want to buy for your wet and dry bulb temps if you are incubating chicks. I checked and it came perfectly calibrated. It was the 5th one I bought. All the others were a little cheaper pricewise, but a lot cheaper in quality. Had I believed any of the other 4 I would have killed my $200 worth of rare breed chicken eggs. Glad I got this one at last! Included a picture of the nice LARGE dial and handy calibration tool being used to check calibration. The tool has a slot at one end to slide the probe through so that you don't have to touch it with your hands which can throw off the temp and also get you burned if you aren't careful. It also has the built in wrench tool so that you can turn the adjustment nut should you find that you need to. Just look up your altitude adjusted boiling temp (mine is 210) and then fill a big pot with distilled water and put it on to boil. Then fill a tall glass with ice and distilled water. After 3 minutes, with the thermometer in the slot of the tool you carefully set the probe down into the water without touching it to the actual glass. It should read 32 degrees F. Make a note of what it DOES read. Take it out and let it come to room temp. Then do the same to the pot of water once it has reached a true boil. Avoid placing it directly into the path of bubbles as the steam can alter the test some. When the temp stops climbing and holds steady write that temp down. My temps were 34 and 208. So it was 2 degrees high at freeze and 2 degrees low at boil. That is OK. All that matters is that it is centered. It is set to the middle of the spectrum between freeze and boil. If it is off more one way or the other you will adjust it to get it centered.

For those that see the word OVEN and think you can _leave this in the food IN an oven_, you are mistaken! The lens is polycarbonate, not pyrex so it WILL melt. This is not that kind of probe. Open the door, insert, wait 20 or so seconds to see if the meat is at the right temp, then remove. If you need an oven proof probe, look for and Oven Proof Thermometer or similar.Insta-Read also seems to vex users, this is a bimetallic thermometer, it is quick, but it is not instant, NO bimetallic is instant. It is however far far FAR faster than a traditional alcohol or mercury capillary tube thermometer! If you really, genuinely need 'Instant', get a digital probe, and then keep button cell batteries on hand for when you discover the batteries have gone dead on Thanksgiving day.Anyway, this probe works pretty well. It is stoutly made, but not in China, instead, it's Vietnam. The dial is easy to read meaning I don't have to find my glasses to see what it's reading. The crystal/lens is polycarbonate so it's shatter resistant if you drop it on a hard floor. It comes from the factory reasonably well calibrated, mine was one degree cool. Calibration is very simple and the plastic protector sheath has the hex drive to adjust it.If you need an exactly calibrated probe, you will need to get a 'Certified' one, and you won't find one in the less than $10 range.

I bought this to measure my car air conditioner temperature at the vent, and it works well for that. I calibrated the thermometer with boiling water and it was accurate. The thermometer is not poorly constructed but it's not heavy-duty either. I gave it 4 instead of 5 starts because I feel like some care must be taken not to bang it around too much or it could fall out of calibration or become damaged. However for the price this product offers a good value. Pro tip: To get this thermometer to stay in the car air vent without spinning around, find a scrap piece of dense plastic foam, like packing foam, and cut a small piece that will stick into the air vent. Then stick the thermometer through the foam. The foam will hold the thermometer in place and keep it from spinning.

Very easy to use and read.

Well, it's a thermometer. So here's my simple thoughts based on a dozen uses - Seems to be accurate, I took temperatureswith 3 different thermometers and this was consistent to my reference tool. I define "instant" read as within a second or so and this takes about 5-10 seconds depending on how far up the dial the needle has to go. I really do like the larger easier to read temperature scale - I wear glasses and I almost always take them off due to steam and heat from the stove fogging them up - I can still read this without glasses - and not burning my nose by having to get to close. The stem is adequate length not to burn if you like to hold it as I do - but I always wear an ov' glove when taking temps of candies and fudge, been burned once too many. Only problem I have had is that it doesn't want to go into the protective sheath very well, however could just be my specific sample.

I had a nice little digital one and I'm not sure what happened when I changed the battery it just quit working so ah well time for something else. This little guy looked pretty good and the price was right so I ordered two. They seem to be pretty accurate to within say +/-5 deg or so. They can also be calibrated like in the case of one being dropped onto tile floor or something and getting it knocked out of alignment. I use it for large cuts of meat when I just want to make sure. Good thermometer for the price. I know there are a lot of other better professional and digital instant read thermometers out there but why spend the money if you don't have to. This one will do the job.

This is what I look for when I make a purchase, items that are solidly made and do not require batteries, things that will last. My money is not disposable, and I don't like buying things that are (if they don't have to be).I went to calibrate it to make sure it was reading correctly, and it was spot-on out of the box. Still working great after 7 months.As others have said, the area on the spike you need to get to is rather far in, so if you need to get the temperature of something shallow, you may want to get a different one. But for anything you can poke this 3-4" into, it works like a charm. Steaks and burgers for example, you will have to poke in the side.Of course it isn't as fast as a digital one (as some people seem to expect) but you will never have to buy a battery for it. And it is not a candy thermometer.

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Arrived promptly. I should've read the description properly. 220fareheit is just not high enough a measure when cooking! Works fine, just rather pointless.

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Very small dial, impossible to see once in meat at back of the oven. Very good returns service though with fast refund, so no real problem.

Work fine