Habor 022 Meat Thermometer, Standard, Rose Red

I'm giving it 5 stars, but with a couple kind precautions for future buyers.It's really long! Nearly 9 inches total.So I have other "drawer thermometers", ones which are too big to carry in my pocket at work as a chef. I was looking for something smaller and more portable that would fit in my coat pocket.It was my fault that I did not read the specs more closely, or at all I guess, since it says "SUPER LONG PROBE".So.... My bad.It does just what it's supposed to do, though I would question the idea of using it in a fast paced, wet, hot, chaotic food service kitchen.Find something smaller, water resistant, and if you have old eyes you might want one that illuminates, but you won't find those things at this price.Hopefully you are informed by this.Everyone should have and use a thermometer.

I’m very disappointed with this thermometer. I have had it 3 months and the display stopped working. I only ever used it to test water temperature. Now one half of the digits display so it is impossible to read. it worked great until this happened. Unfortunately, I am a 3 days out of the Amazon return window so I guess I won’t be able to tell if it was just a glitch in the one I had, or a poor product altogether.

Nice, handy, thermometer, numbers are easy to see, C/F, easy to use.BUT it’s NOT INSTANT READ, no way!!!!!!I’ll stick it into a cooking steak or pork chop to check for doneness/temperature, and the stupid thermometer takes two minutes to give me a proper read. That’s just ridiculous, it’s a totally different piece of meat by then. The thermometer starts by showing some number, let’s say, 110 and goes up by a degree or sometimes 0.1 of a degree - and a minute or two later I get the read, let’s say 135.I mean, a thermometer is a handy tool if you want to cook your meat to your liked doneness, but come on, this thing is as far from instant read one as New York from the North Pole.

I have always been a bit challenged cooking steaks and burgers on the grill. People have told me multiple "ways" of telling when a steak was "medium" and when to pull the burgers off. Still I ended up with underdone burgers and overcooked steaks.This takes the mystery out of it and my grilling skills are now complete.Using this the first time, I cooked pork steaks to perfection. The next time it told me I had left the burgers on too long drinking that "last" beer. LOL.I highly recommend this. I have bought another as a gift for a friend.

Product stopped working after about a month and a half of using it. I bought it for the price and long probe, but it doesn’t stand up to repeated use. You’ll be better off buying something else that will last longer.

I bought these for a chemistry lab. The long probes on these thermometers worked very well for measuring temperatures of fluids in deep containers. I am sure they would work perfectly in the kitchen as well. Temperatures are accurate and consistent. I bought 5 of these and they all read identically, which is pretty good, for something that is designed to just be a kitchen thermometer. They were reasonably priced too. I only had an issue with one of them - kept switching itself to Fahrenheit when student had set it to read in Celsius. Other than that, I am happy with this purchase.

Would love to give this thermometer an honest review, but now I have to go out of my way to order batteries for it because they weren’t included. Listing should’ve mentioned that the battery wasn’t included so I could’ve had them beforehand. Now I gotta wait 3 days before I can even use it. -sigh-Update 7/26: After buying the recommended batteries, I popped them in and guess what? The little display screen doesn’t even work properly. So frustrated over this product, I just ended up chucking it in the trash and bought a proper one from the store for 20 bucks. Waste of money and time. Don’t bother with this product. If I could give 0 stars, I would. Actually, they should be giving me stars at this point.

I had a 20 or 30 year old meat thermometer that took forever to register and seems to have heat markings way above what was necessary for different types of meat. I was tired of constantly testing my roasted chicken to find it wasnt reaching the recommended temperature on the old thermometer and taking forever to register. This works quickly and the probe is small enough it doesnt make a big hole in the meat. Love the handy on and off button and ease of cleaning. I cant attest to exactly how accurate it is, but so far when foods are cooked the recipe-recommended oven temperature and time, the thermometer confirms they have reached the recommended internal temperature so I can only assume its fairly accurate. And I dont have to keep putting food back in the oven several times .