How long do you let it sit before it warms back up?

my $12 one from a garage sale in Tulsa works better" is the most Tulsa sentence I've ever read. Turns out fancy tools are mostly just a tax on people who forgot to check the garage sales first. That twelve dollar stripper has seen things and it knows its job.

Reminds me of the thermostat on my old home oven. I was baking bread for a bake sale and the knob said 375 but an oven thermometer I stuck in there read 325, so 14 loaves came out doughy in the middle. Turns out the sensor had drifted over like 6 years of daily use and I never knew it. Now I keep a $9 thermometer hanging on the rack and check it every time, same as you with the probe.