Customer reviews

Digital Thermometer

I've found this to be an incredibly useful thermometer but for the second time now the product has failed and Lakeland are sending me a replacement. I suspect that the cable is not as robust as it should be. After months of good service the probe temperature started to fluctuate wildly whilst cooking a roast, changing each second, with temperatures ranging by up to 20 degrees. Lakeland's customer service is excellent, but I do feel that the issues that several customers have had need to be resolved with the manufacturer.

Published 21 Feb 2012

Digital Thermometer

I have had this meat thermometer for about 5 months now. When I first took it out of the packet it seemed rather over-complicated for what I want and the instructions were poorly written. That having been said, I persevered and was able to work out how to set the temperature that I wanted my meat to reach (this being the only function I was interested in) and I found that my meat was cooked to perfection. I have probably used it about 10 times in the intervening months and it has now stopped working completely - according to the thermometer the internal temperature in my house is currently 180c!

Published 17 Jan 2012

Digital Thermometer

I bought this item about 6 months ago. I am technically minded and I had no problem understanding it, the instuctions aren't perfect but it didn't take a lot of playing to get it going. Sadly as I cooked a meal a couple of weeks ago I was confused that after an hour and a half, when I expected it to be cooked the thermometer was reading about 30 degrees. I trusted the thermometer and not my instinct and ended up with a burnt roast. I would have expected this product to last longer than 3 months, sadly it now reads temperatures at random, flicks between 4 and 70 degrees.

Published 29 Nov 2011

Digital Thermometer

Bought thinking this would be a valuable baking tool - how wrong I was! I'm a 25 year old male, and consider myself technically literate - and cannot work out how to use the majority of the functions! The temperature also fluctuates wildly on my unit - it will jump from 100 degrees C, to 'Hi' (too high for the thermometer to work), and then anything in between, constantly. Good points? The probe itself is relatively easy to use, and the pivoting display is handy - as are the magnets on the back, and the temperature guide. If I'd kept the packaging and receipt, it would go straight back.

Published 21 Nov 2011

Digital Thermometer

I bought this for use when cooking and also while I brew, but it's not accurate enough for brewing, where I really want accuracy of a degree or so. E.g. it read 71C in my mash tun, but both my glass thermometers read 66C. Later in the brew this device read 30C but the glass ones read 26C. On an upper shelf of my fridge after 30 mins it read 16C, which I didn't even have to double check to know was nowhere near! Can't see an advertised accuracy, so don't know if it's faulty or if it's within its constraints. Can it be recalibrated, as it's not mentioned in the manual?

Published 04 May 2011

Digital Thermometer

My first thoughts on this product when I opened it from it's packaging was that it was quite cumbersome and complicated (for what it is) to use. I figured it out anyway and decided to try it out for the first time at christmas on a rib of beef. I put the thermometer in as per the instructions and set the maximum temp alert setting. From experience it normally takes about 90 minutes for the cut to be cooked to medium, however I was very surprised when I heard the alarm going off after about 30 minutes. I decided to ignore the timer and go on instinct and took the thermometer out. When the cooking time was over I thought i'd test the thermometer reading. It read 97 degrees! The joint was cooked to a lovely medium (65ish?) so there is something wrong with the temperature gauge in there! This may only have been my one, but was very disappointed in the product!

Published 28 Dec 2010

Digital Thermometer

I've used several digital and analogue meat thermometers in teh search for the right one and this one is easily the best of the bunch. I can trust its readings completely - a 160F beef or lamb roast is a perfect medium pink in the middle, a 180F chicken is cooked perfectly. It was handy to check my fridge temperature and the oven temperature test is very useful indeed and caused me to adjust my baking times knowing exactly how my oven temperature varies on any given gas mark. It's great for preserves too, but I'm afraid that the revewers who said that the probe doesn't go through the clip haven't understood how it works. The clip is designed to grip the probe very firmly, so you have to squeeze the sides of the clip together hard and then insert the probe. When you release the pressure on the clip it grabs the probe really solidly, as it should. My hunt for the right meat thermometer is over - this one's it.

Published 29 May 2010

Digital Thermometer

Having bought umpteem oven thermometers - none of which have been that accurate - I decided to try this one. Once I'd figured out how it worked (instructions are not that easy to follow) I've only had one joint that was more rare than medium and that was probably down to me setting it too low. All in all it's a good thermometer and the lady that said the probe doesn't go through the clip, I tried it and if you squeeze the clip sides together it does go through but you might have to fiddle to get it to clip onto whatever you're using though.

Published 22 Feb 2010

Digital Thermometer

As a man recently enjoying making roasts I can heartily recommend this thermometer. You can set it to beep when the meat meets the required temperature. There are recommended temperatures for different meats printed on the back. - fahrenheit though - but you can set it to match the fahrenheit then flip the switch to convert it to centigrade. (Ham means pork). Now once I can get to grips with the resting process all will be perfect - by that I mean I've been setting - for example - the minimum temperature for beef - the beep goes and I remove the meat - but the meat continues to cook while 'resting' and the temperature rises - not a fault of the gadget buut it does mean I will have to learn how much 'resting' meat cooks. All in all a great thing.

Published 08 May 2009