Others say...

"recommended"
Inexpensive and easy to read even without glasses, and does the job. At first the thermometer will do nothing, then all of a sudden it really moves, so I am glad to have a thermometer or I would probably burn the milk, because I am just starting. Hope that it is a long-lasting product.

"It Works"
As you might expect, it does in fact tell you the temperature of your milk. The clip clips nicely onto a frothing pitcher (to the person who said the clip broke when you clipped it onto a mug a few times - that's because you clipped it onto a mug a few times... it's for a frothing pitcher.) The yellow shading on the "sweet spot" of the dial is clear and useful. It's adequately responsive for the price (in my experience, lag is 3 seconds, not 7 as previous poster mentioned).

In other words, it does exactly as advertised in exactly the manner the price point indicates it would. Perfectly adequate tool for the recreational latte maker.

"Unresponsive and inadequate"
This thermometer is terrible. It lags about seven seconds behind my digital probe thermometer, so you need to correct and allow several seconds of "coasting" time. The instructions say to keep it at least 2" in the milk; but when frothing in a 20oz pitcher for a 12oz drink, you start with less milk than that. If this thermometer were acceptably responsive, I'd ding it for not reading 100F, but the responsiveness issue makes everything else moot.

This might be a barely adequate choice if you have a very slow steaming machine, or if you're dealing with large quantities of milk. But otherwise you'll be happier with a good instant-read digital thermometer.

"Simple and Easy"
I just bought this thermometer to use with my new espresso machine and it's a reliable little thermometer. I like the fact that you can clip it on to your cup so that it is secure and it tells you can tell when the milk is ready by looking at the colored area on the dial.

Simple to use and very easy to read.

"Good product"
Excellent product! I am happy that I purchased this along with the stainless frothing pitcher and double insulated shot glasses to make my expresso maker complete. The thermometer helps greatly to achieve the desired frothing temperature. Prior to this arriving it was guess work and I had to nuke the latte to achieve the desired temperature. Spend the extra couple of cents for this and you will appreciate it.