For the last year I’ve been cooking on a small gas cooker. It’s got the usual four burners, but the oven is smaller than normal and this was causing real problems for me.
According to the instructions, the oven has a temperature range from 50 to 300 degrees centigrade. Sadly, it didn’t come with these temperatures marked; it just has a knob with several lines of different thickness on it. So using it has been very hit and miss. And my early experiences – which included burnt scones and bread, sad Yorkshire
puddings etc. – made me very sceptical of that temperature range.
For a while I stopped using it for things needing a specific temperature, but I was missing some of my favourites. So in the interests of my stomach I decided to buy an oven thermometer to find out what was really going on in there, and having checked out a few online I chose the Kitchen Craft Oven Thermometer.
As oven thermometers go, this is one of the cheaper ones, but it does the job I want it to, which is what ...
