Eventek Infrared Thermometer Gun -50°C to 600°C, Digital Laser Temperature Gun with 0.1-1 Adjustable Emissivity, Professional Non-Contact Pyrometer for Pizza Oven, Kitchen Cooking, BBQ, HVAC & Engine

Useful for making wax melts

Great for our new Pizza Oven

I have been using an oven thermometer for years, a metal one that sits inside the oven, as I do a lot of baking, getting an accurate oven temp is essential. I have been using a glass sugar thermometer for years for baking ( sugar work) I have been using a digital metal probe thermometer for years for sauces and glazes..... I recently needed a thermometer for me, to measure my temperature for some new meds and whilst I was looking at them I came across this one, which is not, I repeat is NOT, for use to measure your body temperature. And I realised I can do everything I do with all those other thermometers, but without the washing up, without getting up close & personal with boiling sugar, and without worrying the thermometer will cause crystallisation, because...you don't touch anything with it! It is marvellous. I compared it's reading with my other thermometers, which as I said I have been using for years and are trusted, and this IR thermometer was only 2 degrees c out compared to them, which luckily is no Biggie at all. It takes 2 batteries which are a complete nightmare to put in. The instructions are utterly pointless as well, it just says put the batteries in, it doesn't show on the lovely diagram where to put them in or even how to get to it So, to put the batteries, that they kindly supply, you have to take off the whole red bit around the trigger.all of it. You have to pull really hard. Once the batteries are in, it is VERY difficult to get this red bit back on Warning: when putting the red bit back, it is really important to point the device at nothing, no people please, because as you struggle to get the red plastic back on , you inevitably mash the trigger, repeatedly, which means the laser is activated, and apparently this is really bad for your eyes, so please be careful where you point it as you fight to get the red back on. From there it's easy peasy. You can chose Centigrade ( Celsius) or Farenhight. Then simply pull the trigger and aim the laser light , which shows up as a red dot, at whatever you want to measure...oven temp, boiling sugar temp, etc etc. I also make plant dyes for clothes & yarn ( wool) , where certain reactions , or adding certain ingredients, happen at a specific temperature, again, just point the laser dot in the middle of your mixture and read the display. Easy. You cannot measure the temperature through things, for example if you point the dot at the side of your saucepan, it will read the temp of the side of your saucepan, not what's inside it. So glad they found this, easy to take measurements, pretty accurate, shame about the terrible instructions and battery compartment of dooom.😉

Quick and straightforward to operate, the settings could be easier to use and you HAVE to do some reading to make it accurate but once you know what to do it couldn't be simpler to use.

Got this to check the temp on my solostove griddle and it seems to work well

Great quality and value product

Flimsey, but seems OK so far. Get readings I'd hope for when getting oven ready to throw a pizza in. Just not 100% that what the laser is pointing at is the same as sensor is sensing at some times, but certainly functional for seeing whether pizza oven/stone is ready to chuck a pizza in. Not a quality item, but works enough.

bought for a pizza oven, did the job perfectly. kids thought it was great too checking the temp of everything with a gun!