Rubbermaid Commercial Products Food/Meat Instant Read Thermometer Pocket Size Dishwasher Safe Red For Meat/Food Cooking and Grilling/Oven

Great product! Super fast shipping.

Worked well up tillIt got left in the oven opps

would have given 5 stars if the red tube would register the maat tep recommendations for beef, poultry etc.

Reads 32F degrees in ice water bath

well made and accurate

The dial really is too small. You have to approach it closely with a magnifying glass -- and I have a big magnifier, but the glass cover over the thermometer's dial even makes that difficult because there's optical distortion around the rim of the glass which is where the markings are. And then, you're getting your eyeballs so close that you have to be careful about breathing on the thermometer -- the probe is only a few inches away, and it is sensitive and quick to react, regardless of accuracy (which is questionable).I didn't ask much from the calibration procedure. I have a bunch of digital thermometers because I'm OCD, so I figured I'd calibrate the Rubbermaid to my other thermometers at room temperature. I needed the thermometer to measure around 80 or 90 degrees, not too far from room temperature. I didn't really know how inaccurate the dial would be at 80 or 90 if I calibrated it at room temperature, but I was willing to accept whatever the error might be. But, between the dial being close to impossible to read, the need to handle the thermometer while calibrating it, and the need to breathe, I think the needle moved as I was trying to calibrate, so I just couldn't do it.Consider: If the dial is tiny enough, the distance between each degree gets really close together. Then add the optical distortion of the glass cover on top of that, and your doomed. DOOMED! No way to get the calibration down to one particular degree, even though the markings suggest that you could. When the difference between single-degrees is a hair's width, you really need to be up-close to the dial to see that your re-calibration is accurate. It needs to be a delicate procedure, and it takes time, and I give off heat all over my body, and I'm pretty sure the needle is sneaking upwards as I'm manipulating things.Also, it's hard to hold the thermometer with one hand, the calibration tool with the other hand, and the magnifying glass with my prehensile tail.Also, there's the parallax problem -- the difference in the needle's apparent position when you look from two different positions. Since the markings are sooo close together, the readings change by 4 degrees just because you move your head slightly.I just haven't really been able to use this thermometer for anything. And since I'm being held prisoner in an assisted living facility since The Virus, I can't drop the thermometer into an Amazon-box for a free refund; instead, someone would have to come to this facility to pick up the thermometer, and Amazon charges a fee for that. I didn't look into the specifics, but the pick-up fee might cost more than what I'd get back for returning the thermometer. So it's just a loss.I assume Rubbermaid was purchased by a foreign corporation, or else their name wouldn't be on this product. It's rather a scam. But I had to find out for myself.

Works great, easy to read.

The amazon title for this item included “oven”, so one would expect that this thermometer works in the oven. However, when I placed this thermometer while cooking a piece of beef in the oven, the top of the thermometer melted. Reading the description more closely now, I see that it is meant to be used for testing temperatures outside of the oven. But I feel this fact was not at all made clear to me at the time of purchase. I feel extremely misled.Works okay for on-the-stove cooking.