I have had two previous Polder products that I would recommend. However, the Polder Oven/Meat Thermo-timer I would not recommend. The controls only allow to raise your desired tempurature. Miss you mark, and its a long way to 500 degress and back to the tempurature you want. My older Polder has buttons to raise or lower the desired temp. After about one month, the tempurature gage just went nuts. It read barely (not roiling) boiling water as 260 degrees. No, I was not touching the container etc. So for $30 I got a fancy timer. Purchase either an earlier, simplier model from Polder or a different brand but NOT this one.