Taylor 503 Connoissuer Line Oven Thermometer | 
 enlarge | Brand: Taylor
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: $17.99
New (7) from $12.19
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 13792
Color: Stainless/Taupe
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.7 x 1.1
MPN: 503
Model: 503
UPC: 077784005033
EAN: 0077784005033
ASIN: B000EYEEYK
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Overall 3.5" Width for Easy Reading | | • | Unique 3 Position Capability allows this Thermometer tro hang,clip on oven rack,or stand alone | | • | Stainless Steel with Glass Lense | | • | Temperature Range 150 to 600 Degrees F | | • | Silicone accents |
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Product Description
The Connoisseur Oven Thermometer measures oven temperatures from 150-600 degrees F. The large thermometer has a 2 1/2" viewing dial for easy reading, with stainless steel construction and silicone grips for safe and easy handling. Versatile three-position alignment allows the thermometer to hang, stand, or clip to an oven rack. Since most oven temperatures vary from top to bottom and side to side, place an oven thermometer next to food while cooking to ensure the most actuate reading of cooking temperature. Our premium line of Connoisseur thermometers represent the epitome of the Taylor reputation. With its distinctive look, this series clings to all things culinary. This line features full stainless steel cases designed with uniquely shaped, oversized dials, which avoid counter roll-off. Plus, the silicone accents around the dials aid in gripability and add a splash of color. All are calibrated with pinpoint accuracy to provide quality results day after day. Heritage, precision accuracy, innovation, style -- no other thermometer line combines all four.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Too hard to read October 13, 2008
This product appears to have solid construction. There are little rubbery (probably silicone) things on the sides which are probably to allow you to take it out of the oven when it is hot, but I don't feel comfortable attempting to do that. The little stand/hangar thing that you can use to attach it to your oven rack would be fine for racks with bars spaced about 1/2" to 1" apart, but unfortunately mine are about 1 1/4" apart which means that it only partly works, and partly wants to fall through. If the bars on the rack were farther apart it wouldn't work at all.
I have no reason to doubt its accuracy. (If I had another reliable way of telling the temperature in my oven, I wouldn't have bought this one.)
But I feel that if you have to take the oven thermometer out of the oven to read it, it's not easy to read. Of course you can't read it through the oven door, but even with the oven open, when you bend down to peer at it, various shadows make it pretty much impossible to read and therefore useless. The temperatures I'm usually looking for (300-400F) are in the most shadowed part. I'm going to have to buy another oven thermometer.
Probably if you had an oven that was up at eye level, this thermometer would be fine, but if your oven is under your stove, you may want to find something else.
 Hard to read, dubious about accuracy July 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this to replace an older Taylor. It's premium priced, but in fact badly designed; small numbers on the scale, soon obscured by baked on, can't get off stains, and illegible through the oven door. All others available have similar problems, except Sunbeam, but it's inaccurate, and the 5 Taylor's models seem often inaccurate. So much for the old standard! Are any of the digitals any better? Especially the remote ones? I am going to buy a few and find out.
Michael Scriven
professional evaluator
 Accurate; Easy to Read April 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this product for my wife because cooking times in our oven suddenly started to vary from expectations, and I began to believe the thermostat was the problem. First of all, the dial is very large and easy to read (for young eyes), but we find it's a good idea to eyeball the needle position for the desired temperature on the dial, then clip the thermometer onto a rack (it attaches and detaches easily), and preheat the oven. The angle of the dial vis-a-vis the clip swivels easily, and the thermometer is easily visible through the oven window, but you can't read the temperature (because of dingy oven glass), so that's where pre-heating eyeballing is handy. The clip attaches solidly and releases easily. The product has a nice "solid" feel, and is comfortable in the hand with the silicone grips being useful to keep from dropping in. I would keep it on top of the stove, rather than leaving it in the oven all the time, because that way you make sure the glass face is cleaned frequently. Once you have predetermined the reading you need, it is very easy to just glance at the needle and confirm the temperature is correct. The actual temperature readings are indistinct viewed through the oven door though.
 OK, but not perfect January 26, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am somewhat dissapointed in this device; but I've not found an oven thermometer anywhere that is 1) easy to read IN the oven, 2) able to remain clean for a long time, and 3) easy to attach or balance on the oven racks. This one has very good accuracy and a large dial, but it will NOT remain where I put it in the oven. The darn thing makes me get down on hands and knees to read it, all the while letting the heat escape from the oven. Save yourself a lot of grief and spring for the exterior thermometer type with the internal probe.
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