OK so I have a Rutland stove top thermometer? What are the chances its bad out the package? I borrowed an IR gun from work and my stove top thermometer will read 300 why the IR at the same spot will read 450-500.. New battery in the IR . I don't know which to believe..
Bad thermometer?
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I've learned to do this too. Seems like my Rutland was, running 50 cool
I learned to do this with new Rutland last year. It seemed to read about 50 degrees cooler than the oven, across the whole range.
LOL, you could try an IR reading off the oven walls once the oven temp has had a chance to stabilize. Of course this is assuming the oven thermostat is in calibration. Often they are off a bit.
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Use something to suspend it in a pot of boiling water. That would have to be close? The IR maybe on the side of the pot midpoint of the water level?
I'd try it from 100 to 400 and see if its off and see what it says at each temp .
I've got three or four IR's at work and found them not accurate once above 3 or 400 degrees. They all vary widely once above a certain temp.
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