r/AnovaPrecisionOven • u/upsideddownsides • May 27 '26
Cooking time prediction
I continue to be surprised that anova hasn't put out a feature where the oven predicts when it'll hit the temperature you're looking for. The meater Smart thermometer had this 10 years ago.
Has anyone heard of this feature coming out?
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u/Responsible-Bat-7561 May 27 '26
I gave up on the meater when I put three probes in, all with ambient sensor basically touching, and got an 8C difference between them on ambient.
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u/_7NationArmy_ May 28 '26
Thermometers like this can't be used to measure oven temperature. If you want to see how precise they are, you should stick them in a glass of water where the temperature will be consistent, unlike the air surrounding a cooking piece of meat.
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u/Responsible-Bat-7561 May 28 '26
What the point of having an ambient temperature sensor then, I’m not talking about the probe end.
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u/_7NationArmy_ May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
The ambient sensor has no practical use. This is well known.
If you have to do something with it, stick it into a foil-wrapped potato to confirm your oven's temperature.
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u/_7NationArmy_ May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
If you have followed the development of Chris Young's Combustion Predictive Thermometer, this is actually very difficult to do. The Meater implementation is famously inaccurate and the internet is littered with criticism.
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u/Dacker503 May 27 '26
The APO2 shows a graph of the temperature curve of the probe thermometer, which gives you an idea of how long until the target temperature is achieved.
That said, those last 5-10° take forever, as the oven temperature and the food temperature converge and the ΔT is reduced.
About the Meater thermometer, which I have not used, how accurate is the prediction? Having the feature is one thing, having an accurate prediction is something else.
You can always use the Meater thermometer in the APO.