Thermapen DOT Digital Oven Thermometer for Meat Roasting — BBQ Thermometer Probe with Loud Alarm, Water-Resistant BBQ Meat Thermometer, Reads Up to 300 °C, 1.2m Meat Probe Included

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my mother, to celebrate her newly installed kitchen. The brand is reputable, and it appears to be a good quality piece of kit, with strain relief springs at both ends of the probe cable and so on. I tested it in my own oven first, and it seemed to work just fine, giving readings that made sense. It's fast, too. Turn off the gas, and you'll see the temperature drop in just a few seconds. Very simple to operate; just two buttons to adjust the alarm temperature. It would be nice if you could adjust the temperature more quickly by pressing and holding the button, but that's no big deal. And that's literally my only complaint.

I’m so glad that I chose this unit. The Christmas turkey was a disaster and I knew that I had to buy a digital oven thermometer to stop it happening again. The first time I used it was on a rib of beef joint. It turned out perfectly. I wish I had bought this thermometer before Christmas.

Good sized unit, easy to use with clear display. Temp in C or F. Two arrow buttons to set alarm for when a certain temperature has been reached. Thin braided cable to probe enable probe to be inside oven and unit outside. Has a back light too. N.B. Some reviewers here have said the probe doesn’t last long. Actually the probe is a sensitive piece of kit and just needs taking care of. Chucking it in a draw or clumsy handling will break it. So keep in it’s box, or a take away tub, and treat with care!

I have now had three DOT probes. The flex is far too weak and vulnerable for regular use, and after a while it gets kinked (for example by putting it in an oven and closing the door on it) and after a time the probe then gives completely unbelievable readings. I am now on my third flex in about two years. They are not cheap, and I will not buy another. From now on I will use a point and shoot temperature gadget for stocks and the like, and reserve the probe (until it fails) for the internal temperature of roasts

I like the device and it works well but with regular use the probe has only lasted 6 months, to buy a new probe is currently £22.80 and you can buy the complete device for £24.99, if you could get a new probe for around £10 then it would make much more sense as they don't last forever.

I bought this product to check that my Joule Sous Vide water heater/circulator was performing correctly. I put about 10 litres of water in my insulated cooking bath so that there was about 80mm of water depth with the initial water temperature around 48°C (both the DOT and the Joule were in close agreement at this point when I commenced water pumping through the Joule. I then set the Joule to heat to 50°C and observed the displayed temperature on the Joule and the DOT during the initial temperature rise. The Joule displays in 0.1°C increments whereas the DOT is a 1°C scale. I was immediately encouraged when the Joule reached 48.5°C and the DOT made the first incremental jump from 48°C to 49°C (i.e. indicating it was working on a rounding basis and was in agreement with the Joule). This effect repeated at the 49.5°C point when the DOT indicated 50°C. I then allowed the Joule to stabilise at 50°C (the tendency is to overheat by +0.1 or +0.2°C before then settling at the required set point). I then increased the Joule set point in 1°C increments and observed the DOT increasing in 1°C as the Joule got to withing 0.5°C of the target temperature (i.e. indicating that the DOT was correctly reading the temperature and performing the rounding-up of the value when withing 0.5°C of the next display point). I did this all the way to 80°C and the DOT performed faultlessly over this 30°C range. I then set the Joule to cool from 80°C to 75°C and observed a similarly accurate response (i.e. no noticeable hysteresis). Whilst I must concede that my test did not involve any sort of calibrated standard, the unerring agreement of the two systems suggest, to me at least, that in all likelihood both are accurate since the probability that both are exactly inaccurate is almost vanishingly remote. I will do an iced-water abd boiling water test to establish if the 0°C and 100°C points are also accurate and add an update. Is correct at these more extreme temperatures then it is pretty safe to assume good accuracy over the food-cooking range. Calibration update: Using an automatic kettle I recorded 99°C as the water came to the boil and the kettle then shut off. By my Garmin watch the atmospheric pressure was 1004.9 mbars and this means that the true boiling point would have been 99.8°C. I then tried boiling water on a gas hob and placing the probe in the bubbling water stream adjacent to the bottom of the pan and a observed 100°C. I then placed a number of ice cubes in an insulated beaker and occasionally observed 1°C by waggling the probe around in the water but it was more consistently around 2-3°C. I think if a placed the beaker in the fridge and increased the ratio of ice to water and allowed longer to stabilise it would be very close to 0°C. So, in conclusion, this really is an accurate device. I think the main threat is if the cable becomes kinked so I will endeavour to avoid this happening.

I like everything about this product. Above all it is simple to use, easy to understand and does what it says on the tin and has an uncluttered pleasing appearance

I love this as it simply works. I use it a lot. I had seen complaints of the probe wire breaking, but 18 months on I have not had an issue. Be aware it gets very hot in the oven. Be gentle and pull from the probe and not the wire. Wipe it down while it's warm.

Lettura della temperatura praticamente entro 3 secondi. Perfetto vale ogni centesimo che costa. L'unico termometro da comprare e avere a casa

unfortunately the temperature probe only lasted 5 bbqs and finally burst a apart.