Calling MEATER users - ambient temps?

[UTH]

For a while I was 'accusing' both of my relatively new Neff ovens of being useless as running at the temperature I set it to - when cooking a nice thick steak with my MEATER, I'd need to set the oven to about 85 to get 100 ambient temp reported by the MEATER.

BUT, my friend who was looking into this 'mystery' has reported back that he's starting to think it's the MEATER that is inaccurately reporting the ambient temp, not the oven.

Anyone got any thoughts on this? I did actually email NEFF and they told me that they have a tolerance of +/- 15 degrees, so setting it to 85 to read 100 is just about within the range.
But doing a bit of reading suggests the MEATER isn't the best at reporting an accurate ambient temp.....

[witten]

Can't you just calibrate it with some boiling water and some ice?

[UTH]

witten said:

Can't you just calibrate it with some boiling water and some ice?

Not sure what you mean? Am I being dumb?

[dapprman]

UTH said:

witten said:

Can't you just calibrate it with some boiling water and some ice?

Not sure what you mean? Am I being dumb?

Bring a pan of water to the boil, insert the MEATER and see what temperature it records.

[UTH]

dapprman said:

UTH said:

witten said:

Can't you just calibrate it with some boiling water and some ice?

Not sure what you mean? Am I being dumb?

Bring a pan of water to the boil, insert the MEATER and see what temperature it records.

Oh I see, so I can't actually recalibrate but just find out how accurate it it. Good idea.

[Ham_and_Jam]

Repeat with iced water, you then have two accurate points of known values.

It’s how we check (& the environmental health recommend) our temp probes.

[FredericRobinson]

No-one should be selling a temperature probe with an accuracy range of 15 degrees, never mind +/- 15 degrees, either would make it unsafe to use

[85Carrera]

Chucked mine out wasn’t at all accurate (even after “calibrating”). Contacted them and they were singularly unhelpful. Fortunately recouped the cost on my credit card.

[UTH]

Apart from my doubts over the ambient temp, I must say it has never failed to give me a perfect cook, so clearly the internal reading is accurate. And after all, that’s what it’s there to do really.

[Ham_and_Jam]

FredericRobinson said:

No-one should be selling a temperature probe with an accuracy range of 15 degrees, never mind +/- 15 degrees, either would make it unsafe to use

It’s quite common for ovens to be about ~10C out. You just accommodate and adjust the cooking temps / times accordingly. It’s a learning curve and you go through with any new oven.

If it is the meater probe that is 15C out then that needs replacing, but the OP needs to check as already discussed.

[85Carrera]

UTH said:

Apart from my doubts over the ambient temp, I must say it has never failed to give me a perfect cook, so clearly the internal reading is accurate. And after all, that’s what it’s there to do really.

Mine did neither accurately. Maybe I was unlucky but if that’s the case curious the makers didn’t send a replacement.

[UTH]

85Carrera said:

UTH said:

Apart from my doubts over the ambient temp, I must say it has never failed to give me a perfect cook, so clearly the internal reading is accurate. And after all, that’s what it’s there to do really.

Mine did neither accurately. Maybe I was unlucky but if that’s the case curious the makers didn’t send a replacement.

Yeah that isn’t right. Every time I carve beef/steak at 55 degrees it’s exactly what I was hoping for.