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Brand: Polder
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$25.00~~
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

53 reviews
Sales Rank: 2745

Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 4

MPN: 307
Model: 307
UPC: 047188307552
EAN: 0047188307552
ASIN: B00004S4TZ

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Customer Reviews:

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A Must for every Kitchen. March 8, 2007
The best product to keep temp track of MEAT. A must for the home cook that cares about their family.

4 out of 5 stars

Polder 307 Deluxe January 18, 2007
This is a great durable product. It doesn't have asmany features as some other models however; it gets the job done.

5 out of 5 stars

Great tool for the kitchen January 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I purchased this thermometer in preparation for roasting our Thanksgiving turkey. Since that time I have roasted several types of meats and have achieved excellent results each time. Beyond the tool's accuracy, is its convenience. Having its alarm notify you when the target temperature is reached, is a great help when you're entertaining and subject to the distractions of guests.

If there is any downside to the Polder, it's the unavoidable fact that the cable has to be extended from inside the oven to outside on some nearby surface. Working around that small cable can be bothersome.

But all in all, I wouldn't be without this tool. It yields perfect cooking temperatures for a variety of meats.

2 out of 5 stars

LED Display doesn't work! December 17, 2006
The unit worked well until the display starting to malfunction. The LED display doesn't display properly. There are lines missing, so you can't see the whole word or temperature numbers. I am now in the process of looking for a better unit with a display that actually works.

2 out of 5 stars

Too many problems to be happy with. November 27, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

I bought this to replace a nice Williams-Sonoma model which simplified things with buttons to select meats and cooking doneness levels...only because I lost the proble travelling from relatives' houses. This Polder had the extra benefit (I thought) of reading the oven temperature as well as the food temps. I used it Thanksgiving -- no time like an important holiday, right? -- and discovered the warts on the thermometer:

If you set the oven temperature, its alarm will go off every 3-4 minutes because your oven naturally cycles between high and low while heating your food. You can only turn the alarm off for two minutes, then it's going to sound again. Once you set an oven temperature, you cannot disable the alarm. The only workaround I found was to set it 50 too high so I could monitor the oven temperature without running back every few minutes to quiet it.

Setting the food temperature is up to you (no presets for beef, pork, etc. or levels of doneness) and if you make a mistake you must, like cheap digital watches, go all the way up to 600 and back around from zero again to fix it. There's no CLEAR button to help start over (for either oven or food). Plus, turning the device off and on again does not erase the settings!

There were occasional temperature fluctuations of over 25 during cooking (from 350 dropping to 325) which I had a hard time understanding. Maybe it was the oven, but that was hard to believe. This made it tough to set and forget with all the constant fiddling of the temp dial to get it right.

The Polder rarely agreed with an in-oven slow-set thermometer I put in to check against, so I couldn't average out the temperatures.

Finally, although the Polder said the turkey I roasted was only 165, it seemed overcooked by 5-6 degrees, but of course that depended on my placement as much as anything, so benefit of the doubt goes to the probe. I'm trying it again today with another bird to see if it's still problematic, but I'm not recommending it because of the alarm problem.

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