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Customer Reviews of CDN IRT220 InstaRead NSF Expanded Range Food Thermometer
Customer Rating:  Summary: Not Just For Food Comment: I don't use my thermomter for cooking. I stick it in the vent grille of my car to see how well the air conditioner and heater work, the temperature of the outside air when just the fan is blowing, and the standing temperature of the car after it's been in the sun or the snow for awhile. While, of course, you can tell how well or poorly your temperature systems are working by how comfortable you feel, sometimes it is good just to know the extremes the systems work at and use that as a measure of how efficiently they are working at other times. For example, the AC cools the air coming out of the vent to a bit below forty degrees. The heat warms it to over 150 degrees. On a sunny summer day, the car can bake at over 140 degrees. In the winter, I've seen the gauge read five degrees. I owned one of these thermometers for awhile before purchasing more here. Friends and family have seen my application and want one for themselves. Customer Rating:  Summary: It's not really good for baking/broiling Comment: This thermometer is NOT designed for in-oven use. Eventhough, the Amazon description mentions use in ovens, it can only used if you open the oven, take your meat/fish/whatever out, and stick this thermometer in, wait a few seconds for an accurate reading, and then stick the food back in if necessary. Anyone who cooks knows that repeatedly opening your oven door while cooking is not a good idea. The covering of the thermometer display is plastic and WILL MELT if exposed to heat directly. If you want to use a thermometer for your turkey, for example, get one with an in-oven sensor and an out-of-oven display (a probe thermometer). This thermometer is, however, good for stove-top use. If you want to heat water or syrup (for candy) to a certain temperature, then this is good. I haven't used it on a grill but I think it would only be good for open-grill cooking. Techinically, I should give it more than two stars because it does the job it was designed to do quite well, but too bad the description is misleading. Customer Rating: Summary: A Tin Fiddle! Comment: I've had this thermometer for a year now. Why, I don't know, as it's all but useless. First, the "insta-read" is anything but instant. It takes only a second or two less to reach a stable temperature than the old Taylors --if that. 6 seconds is the minimum and 10 is more likely. This is plenty of time to ruin a piece of fish. I've checked the CDN against the standard Taylor dial thermometers many, many times, with always the same results. Second, or maybe it should be first, it's wildly inaccurate, and inconsistently inaccurate at that. I've checked it against a very accurate scientific thermometer, using a large water bath, again and again, and on a good day the CDN will register 20 to 40 degrees high or low (the low end tends to be high and the high end low, but you can't predict by how much). You've watched food demonstrators touch the surface of the demo food with the tip for an instant? Forget it. It won't register at all unless you plunge it into the meat (there's a mark on the stem, not that it matters as it lies no matter what). There is supposed to be an adjustment you can make, but there are no instructions for doing so and the bolt on the back won't budge-- Customer Rating: Summary: Defective Comment: I have ordered this item twice. Each time, when the thermometer is left in a hot oven, the plastic covering the temperature numbers melts. This thermometer should only be used for taking the temperature of meats that are not in an oven. Customer Rating: Summary: For the price...its been the best one Comment: This isnt the first thermometer I have gotten. I have had at least 2 other ones of similar low price that I had problems with. One would not read correctly...it's hard to judge temperature but I could be absolutely certain that my chicken was not 120 degrees after several hours of cooking (it was a big chicken and I kept putting it back in, big mistake) The second one worked for a month or two and than the mechanism kept sticking... It would read some rediculously low number under 100 but if I would shake it, it would go up. Clearly if I was cooking poulty I wanted something more accurate. I was going to buy a more expensive model but decided to try a more cost effective one, yet again. This doesn't always work sometimes you get what you pay for (or less). In this case I have had the thermometer for at least a year and have no reason to question the results. The readings seem to be within bounds of what I would expect for how long I have been cooking something. And I haven't had any problems with the mechanisms. Instant read is a bit optimistic and it will take a few seconds, at least, to read the internal temperature. But that gives me time to glance at the little case with reccommended internal temperatures. I have seen different recommended internal temps in different places (generaly a *bit* lower) but I tend to go with the higher temps anyway so for me its a good gauge. I have two minor issues with it... very minor but still I thought I would mention it. First I do not get the pocket clip. If I test a chicken and its below temp I wash the probe and let it air dry for the next go around. I can't see the logic of putting it back in the case and putting it in a pocket. If I am not cooking I certainly do not wear it on my pocket. So that feature baffles me a bit. I suppose if you are wearing a shirt with a front pocket and want to wear it before you check your meats, you could. But I guess I don't get that. Second, when I check something and its almost at the temp and I want to take it out and let carry over cooking do the rest...I have left the probe in...only to come back 10 minutes later to have it read lower. That makes no sense to me. Yesterday I took out a roast chicken at 175 to let carry over cooking bring it to 180. I went back in 10 minutes. I had left the probe in and covered the bird with foil. And the temp read less, significantly less. That makes no sense to me. The only thing I can think of is that this thermometer can not manitain the temp and would need to be re-inserted for each read. Although I can not understand why this would occur. It seems to me it should just continue to maintain what ever temp its reads and go up...or down... but the chicken should have been hotter not colder after 10 minutes under foil, in the roasting pan, even on top of the stove. Even with those minor issues, and as I said they are minor, this was an excellent purchase. It was inexpensive and effective and I have had no mechanical issues with it. If you don't have one this would be a great item to buy. More Reviews Eliminate the guesswork in cooking by using the CDN IRT220 Insta-Read ProAccurate Cooking Thermometer. The 1" magnified dial in a waterproof and shatterproof polycarbonate lens is perfect for professional results with meat, poultry, yeast, dough, and chocolate tempering. The Insta-Read is a rugged, durable precision instrument for quick, accurate readings after food has been removed from the oven, microwave, grill, rotisserie, or smoke oven. The thermometer can be recalibrated with a recalibration tool included on the sheath. Made with premium grade stainless steel. Includes a pocket clip. NSF (National Sanitary Foundation) approved. 5 year limited warranty. 
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