Comments on: Marketman’s Quick Tip # 8 – Calibrating Your Meat/Candy/Fry Thermometer

By: Cora

Cora — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:22:49 +0000

Great tip! Thank you, MM.

By: jakbkk

jakbkk — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:49:39 +0000

nice tip….gonna try it this weekend.

By: tipat

tipat — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:35:38 +0000

Thanks for the tip, MM! I should do that this summer just to make sure our thermometers are working correctly.

By: PITS, MANILA

PITS, MANILA — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:27:40 +0000

thanks, MM! will check on ours …

By: faithful reader

faithful reader — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:38:36 +0000

An accurate way of calibrating a thermometer is by referencing it with a mercury in glass thermometer in slushed ice water. If it does not have the same reading, then adjust the thermometer. (not the meccury in glass. That one never needs adjusting) The digital thermomters are usually the ones that always need adjusting. The other ones too if you drop if or if the adjustment gets loose. It is really easy to adjust. Just underneath the head, there is a bolt like notch that you turn with a wrench or pliers. The digital ones might need their batteries changed.

By: Monty

Monty — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:02:09 +0000

Off topic but calibration related, I recently checked my blood pressure on one of those Mercury Drug machines that takes 5 peso coins. The reading was 139/73 which I thought was a bit high. It so happened there was a manual bp station inside the mall, and just 5 minutes after the first check, my bp measured 110/70.

By: Slightly Epicurean

Slightly Epicurean — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:19:24 +0000

Thanks for tip MM! This is a big help for someone like me who is still quite new in the kitchen world. =)

By: millet

millet — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:45:07 +0000

yes, Betchay, am having the same problem with my oven thermometer. Have tried calibrating several times, but it’s still not working properly.

By: Betchay

Betchay — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:01:06 +0000

Thanks for this tip.How do you calibrate an oven thermometer?

By: weng

weng — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:01:34 +0000

Thank you for the tip, MM. I have gone through a few thermometers in the past and not until I followed America’s Test Kitchen’s recommendation of Thermoworks thermometers that I have finally settled on just one brand. I use their Thermapen on just about everything. This brand is truly as accurate as a thermometer can get.