Wildly differing temperature readings across burners
I generally haven’t had very good results with using temperature mode. If I try to hold a simmer by setting the temp to near the boiling temp of water at my altitude, I’ll either get the water not moving at all or violently boiling. After a while, I noticed that what was happening seemed to be correlated with what burner I was using so I decided to test it.
Protocol: preheat an enamel cast-iron sauce pan (like Le Creuset) by boiling water in it for 15 minutes so that the pan is evenly heated through and would be heated to the same level through all the tests. Empty saucepan and put 2 cups of new water in; heat at 2.5 kW until a rolling boil. Turn power down to 500 W, set timer for three minutes. After three minutes, water is barely producing bubbles and measures about 200° on my Thermapen. Check the temperature on the screen. Repeat with new water for next burner, and then for good measure do them all again.
Here’s what the temperature said on the screen for each burner at the end of my test:
Front L: 213°/212°
Front R: 192°/194°
Back L: 227°/226°
Back R: 219°/220°
Has anyone else seen this kind of huge variation in sensor performance across the different burners?
Which one of these is closest to how the sensor should be reading? I would expect the bottom of the pan to be hotter than what I’m measuring for the water inside it, but how much hotter would one expect for well-preheated cast iron?
(And for info, I did email support about this a couple of days ago but they haven’t responded yet, so I wanted to see if anyone else ever faced this)