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Ina Gartensays you should probably stop trusting your oven so much.

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Always use one,Garten toldFood connection.

No matter what it says on the dial, the temperature in the oven could be totally different.

The dial is 2.5 inches wide with clear tick marks every 5 degrees from 100 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Solid, classic piece of equipment.

Every kitchen should have one.

My stove was off by 25 degrees,wrote one shopperat Taylors website.

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If not for the oven thermometer I would never have known.

Of course, the sword cuts both ways, and some bakers have been crushed by the results.

Take Gartens advice and add aTaylor oven thermometerto your next Amazon order.

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Keep scrolling for a few more of the affordable kitchen items theBe My Guesthost toldFood Networkshe considers must-haves.

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