For years, my wife has complained that her electric oven is too fierce.
Having just got an infra-red thermometer from Maplin ( partly because of comments made on this group ), I thought it should be easy enough to use it to check the actual oven temperature.
The obvious problem is what to use as a target.
The shelves are chrome, so are quite unsuitable, but although the side walls are black, the heating elements might make them hotter than the rest of the oven.
I do have some small black anodised aluminium heat sinks. I thought that anything designed to disspate heat ought to do just as good a job at absorbing heat, so I propose to use a small wire to suspendone from the middle of the centre shelf and check it's temperature periodically. Any obvious flaws with this idea ?