On 03/03/2013 22:45, David.WE.Roberts wrote:
We think our oven is running cooler than the temperature dial indicates.

The oven thermometer seems to agree.

However, how accurate are oven thermometers?

Ours is an analogue one - presumably some sort of internal coil.

Made by Copco.

There seem to be loads of choices via Google and most of the mechanical
ones look very similar - stainless steel back, clip to go on the oven
shelf, pointer and dual C/F scale.

Oh, and where in the oven is the best place to measure?

By the glass is easy to read, the temperature sensor must be at the edge
somewhere, but should it be as close to central as possible? Even on a fan
oven?

Cheers

Dave R

We thought ours was under-temperature. Then, looking at the dial very
carefully, realised that we were mis-reading it. The markings are
something like this:

.. 120 . 140 . 160 . 180 . 200 . 220 .

And the pointer has to point not at the number, but at the dot past the
number (i.e. seemingly higher). Just that ovens both I and partner had
been most familiar with pointed at the middle of the number itself.

We do have an oven thermometer (as last oven did seem a bit wayward at
times) but do not use it precisely because of the difficulty in reading
it from outside the oven. Were we to want another, we'd go for an
electronic one which can also measure inside of joint temperatures, etc.

--
Rod