Gas cooker/oven - can the oven temerature be calibrated?

[jc001]

Have an 18month old indesit gas cooker (ID60G2) The two ovens seem to give very different temperatures; at gas mark 4 (so 175degC ish) one is reading 160degC and the other approaching 195degC!

Can the cut-off point of the thermostat typically be adjusted, so that gas 4 is gas 4 (i.e.175-ish)

Regards

 

[jj4091]

As far as I know the tolerance for oven temps is + or - 30 degrees which is caused by the variation in thermostats physical construction & the way they cycle up & down when gas is called for or shut off. It seems that you have to self calibrate ovens by trial & error during use. If this is something that has just started then perhaps one of your stats is faulty & you will need to call out a Gas=safe engineer

 

[jc001]

+/- 30 - that is a lot - ouch! thanks for the post.

 

[jj4091]

Sorry finger slip should have been + or - 20, still a significant difference though. Still seems that both your ovens are within the tolerance.

 

[gasbanni]

I beg to differ its + or -10 so you can have a differential temperature of 20 degrees between both ovens.
It's a case of becoming used to the ovens.

You can't really adjust thermostats, not without a degree of difficulty.